An article from Reason Magazine discussed the many issues with age verification.
As more regions worldwide — including several U.S. states — roll out laws requiring age verification online, the ripple effects continue to mount. The latest developments include U.S. residents losing access to a blogging platform, French users facing risks of their porn-viewing data being exposed, and noncompliant porn sites in the U.K. gaining major traffic boosts.
Let’s start with what’s happening in the U.S.
In Mississippi, another website has begun blocking local users in response to the state’s new age verification and online harm prevention law.
This follows earlier fallout, such as the social media platform Bluesky cutting off access to Mississippi residents.
Now, Dreamwidth Studios — a blogging platform geared toward artists and one of the plaintiffs in a NetChoice challenge to the Mississippi law — has also restricted access for Mississippi users, while additionally barring minors in Tennessee from creating new accounts.
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