DavyJones on Nostr: The difference is that we have been doing age verification in person for years, and ...

The difference is that we have been doing age verification in person for years, and we can do it without any terrible consequences. Unless you consider local solutions that are trivial to bypass we do not have a way to validate the age of someone using a computer remotely that does not involve uploading personal data to the internet. Uploading personal data to the internet makes internet use far more dangerous.

You can of course blame the capitalists for doing what they think will make them the most money, and I would agree with you, but any system that assumes they will act any other way is broken. One of the biggest problems with this law is that it is making it impossible for non-monetised sites to comply so driving many people to the megacorps who are doing this sort of extreme data collection.