When No ID Means No Internet: Age Verification and the Right to Access Information

Age verification proposals are often presented as a simple tradeoff: sacrifice a little privacy to better safeguard children online. But that framing overlooks a more fundamental question. What happens to people who cannot verify their age at all? This is particularly a problem when users are required to prove their age with identity documents.

I’m really starting to think that Reticulum is the eventual way of the future for network communications.