Show Me Your Bones

"The problem is that there’s no way to reliably verify someone’s age without verifying who they are. A platform cannot magically discern that a user is 16 without collecting identifying information, whether through government documents such as a passport, payment information like a credit card, or other identity-disclosing data. Whether that data is stored by the platform itself or outsourced to a vendor, the result is always the same: A user’s offline identity is forever linked with their online behavior.

I dont know what solutions might be on a broader scale, but its absurd for one country to have this much power and for their private corporations to be handed this amount of authority from literally world governments demanding "safety for children". This power structure is absurd.

From the Archives — 2023 04 05-11 — Communion 5: https://helveticablanc.com/20230406-communion-5.html

“The use of the word ‘study’ appears to be hollow and disingenuous — rather this is an extermination campaign masquerading as science,” said Elliot Ross, a National Geographic explorer and photographer who lives in southern Utah near Rice.