[palata]

Not entirely sure what you are trying to say, other than you don't really care as long as you are not the one who is marginalised.

Anyway it's generally a tradeoff: is it worth doing it? By adding very strict age verification systems and marginalising people, do we make society globally better or not? Will those age verification systems work to prevent underage people from accessing the stuff we don't want them to access in the first place? Not clear. If they do, will it result in underage people being better? Not clear. And if it does, will it have been worth the damage on the people it marginalised? Not clear.

[MichaelZuo]

Since my old reply was flagged, this now seems like coordinated trolling.

I really doubt you are genuinely incapable of understanding what “regulated electricity utilities” or “expected to provide service” means.

[palata]

I didn't downvote you, not sure what you are talking about.

[MichaelZuo]

Is this AI written?

I didn’t accuse you of downvoting. It’s literally not possible for HN users to downvote the comment they reply to.

Anyone with seemingly over 10k karma would know that.

[palata]

I genuinely didn't know :-). I don't generally downvote comments I reply to. I don't downvote when I disagree, I downvote when I believe the comment is very low quality, in which case I don't engage at all.