It’s not the best choice …it’s Spacer’s Choice!

If stuff like this was obvious to everyone, people would’ve been smart enough to not vote for Trump. And articles like this do erode the number of people who support Trump or are anti-vax. Just because it’s yet more evidence to you of fuckery from these twatwaffles doesn’t mean it’s not also a revelation for someone else.

None of the age verification services respect privacy - that’s baked into the whole push for it. Because it’s not just about “verifying” people’s ages at a specific point in time, especially in the US, it’s about being able to prove you have in case anyone tries to sue you.

Headlines like this really need to put the emphasis on the cause, e.g. “UK Government Forces Bluesky to Roll Out Age Verification”