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by gnfargbl 74 days ago
That's likely, but only if it's possible to materially articulate some specific negative ways in which age verification data is actually being used.

You and I can strongly suspect that there's a significant downside to these providers having so much sensitive personal data but, until that is proven, the voting population will only see the upside.

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The death of online anonymity isn't negative and specific enough?

People understand this intuitively - hire someone to obviously follow them everywhere, record everything they do (or only as much as current surveillance records), and they'll want to put a quick stop to it. Do the same thing, but out of sight, out of mind, and their correctly evolved instincts fail to carry over.