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.

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    15 hours ago

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

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      13 hours ago

      You’re right, but for now, until the reticulum networks get built up, Tor and I2P are going to be the only ways possible. The CuckNet will be a useless place to be, and the only place you’ll actually be able to get real information is on the dark web.

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        6 hours ago

        Mark Qvist, the original developer of Reticulum, is suffering from AI psychosis. He fully trusts his chatbot to develop software and create documentation for him. You are seeing the result.