Comment on Age Verification Is A Windfall for Big Tech—And A Death Sentence For Smaller Platforms

• LuckingFurker@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The fact that you recognise it would be a struggle should honestly spur you on even more to do it. People got by for a long time without the Internet and even though now the same infrastructure they’d have used is at best a shell of its former self if not gone entirely it would still be possible. We don’t have to stop entirely but if a bunch of sites suddenly find their traffic is way down they’d start to put pressure on about getting rid of ID checks and we might finally see some movement

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  • other_cat@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oh, I know. No preaching required. I’m from pre-internet days. That’s why I agree with you. Being this dependent on the internet is not good for me or anyone else.

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