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And do we need age verification on the internet?

Can we even do it well?

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Verifying a user's age is heating up as a battleground.

More organizations and countries have decided we need to protect the children from all kinds of things.

Up until now, most of the attention has been on laws to age gate porn sites.

But there's also social media and dating sites and all kinds of other things that people say,

you know what, we need to make sure your whatever age before you get to use it.

In fact, there's U.S. legislation being considered to require age verification more broadly, and that's gaining support.

So, Meta, Spotify, and Match, the dating service, have launched the coalition for a competitive mobile experience, a lobbying effort specifically meant to convince the U.S.

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