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If you look at the people pushing these bills it's the anti-trans and anti-porn activists. Not the left.
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In the UK we have many people on the left with these perspectives. It comes from the second-wave feminist tradition.

But generally speaking, online age verification is one of those issues where the left-right ideological divide doesn't map neatly. People support and oppose it for various different reasons. Much like the assisted suicide issue.


This issue looks partisan from the outset, but both sides push the same thing. They just use partisan justifications.

Age verification efforts in the US have been privacy-attacking (demanding government ID) whereas the system being proposed in europe is privacy-preserving (zero-knowledge proof).

In Europe though? You have those?



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