By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 23/06/2026"Age verification" means that *everyone* who does *anything* online will have to submit to fine-grained tracking and recording of *all* their online activities. 6/ 18527
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 23/06/2026This nightmare is the surveillance advertising industry's fondest dream, a world where it's literally *illegal* to avoid their tracking, all in the name of saving kids...from them! 7/ 16318
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 23/06/2026So it's not just a weird alliance of anti-Big Tech crusaders and the conspiratorial right that's pushing for age verification - they are unwitting allies of the very tech industry they think they're fighting. 8/ 1426
