[squigz]

I hate how quickly some people have just accepted age verification is inevitable.

[tzs]

Look at all the countries with it already or that are in the midst of implementing it [1]. It won't stop there.

Even if the tide turns it is going to be pretty widespread before it ebbs. Why not work to make sure before that happens it is done in a way that protects privacy?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_age_verification_laws_b...

[inigyou]

You got an alternative proposal? You could run you and 537 of your best friends for Congress and make it illegal

[squigz]

I'm not American. Nor is Motherless. And yet...

[inigyou]

.com is American.

[walrus01]

But should it be? Verisign having control over it is a weird historical artifact of the early days of the internet.

[inigyou]

all non-two-letter TLDs are American. I think we should ban them all and put them under .us, but it will never happen. You can't get there from here. Path dependence.

Also ICANN should have gotten the corporate death penalty when it announced gTLDs.