Things I said would happen last year (2024) are starting to happen, and here is another article about how the tinternet is changing rapidly with age verification popping up everywhere!
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/age-verification-is-coming-for-the-whole-internet.html
This follows on from Spotify and Rockstar asking for age verification in the UK for products that will ensure they lose millions of subscribers, meaning that prices will rise for everyone else. Furious music streamers are saying they will resort to piracy rather than age verification for example in the UK
Now all these announcements are coming with the news that millions of UK users now use VPNs to bypass age checks and other censorship, and the “dark web” usage is multiplying rapidly. The age of the 2-tier or even more likely the multi-tier tinternet are rapidly approaching. I can see the death of the so called free accounts happening soon as well, I mean complaints about ads and more ads are rife right now. These are worrying times because the backlash so far is quite strong and it will only get worse…
*EDIT*
After writing this article I found an article from the Electronic Frontier Foundation explaining easily why the Online Safety Act doesn’t help privacy or security and actually is just a form of censorship!
