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by bradreaves2 104 days ago
Where does it say that it will require age verification?

The link you sent basically says "you pinky-promise that you're 18."

Later in the doc it also says "you promise not to send malware."

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It's wild that all other comments in this thread (so far) seem to completely miss this nuance. There are lots of services that, in their terms, require users to be adults.

This type of age "identification" is a lot different than age verification, submission of ID, etc.

A lot different in that it dilutes the rule of law rather than being an actual repressive measure, yes. (See also: underage drinking.) Not clear if it’s better: an enforced stupid law can cause actual pushback; a mostly-unenforced one is liable to be enforced arbitrarily against inconvenient companies. (I’m guessing there’s no actual legal requirement for Zed to reject minors, just some sort of legal regime that makes it more trouble than it’s worth, but that only adds to the arbitrariness. The law could even be non-stupid—e.g. they’re trying to sell user data—but with such a fig leaf it might as well be.)
Came to say the same. Neither Ctrl+F by this human nor ChatGPT could find anything at all about age or identity verification. I think the title should be changed.