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'Anonymity Online Is Going to Die': What Age-Verification Laws Could Look Like in the U.S.
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The corpos' owners' own "need" for shell-corporations, astro-turfing, bot-follower-accounts and such will torpedo this. The internet is going to suck for anyone that spends too much effort on playing by the rules, but that's already true.
Oh, and don't get me started on the inevitable impacts on advertisers' bottom-lines and corpo-providers' exposure to liability.
Basically, those who have the power who might toy with thinking or saying they want this, don't really, and those who are most certain they want this have neither the power nor understanding to make it happen.