There is nothing wrong with age verification, should indeed be done to safeguard minors.
The solution is the problem.
Age verification can be made using non-intrusive methods instead of full privacy...
If there is a technical solution, I would be genuinely interested. Maybe something with zero knowledge proofs. But you would have to enforce it on every website and platform. It would have to be at the protocol level, rebuilding the whole internet around age verification. Which is just not going to happen.
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