It’s amazing how lawmakers continuously write tech legislation without understanding how the underlying infrastructure works. Mandating age checks at the domestic web level does absolutely nothing to stop an increasingly tech-literate generation from simply firing up a proxy, changing their DNS routing, or jumping on a free VPN to access the unfiltered global web. All this bill achieves is burdening domestic platforms with massive compliance overhead while pushing actual kids away from localized, safe sites and deeper into unmoderated, international corners of the web where domestic laws have zero jurisdiction.
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It’s amazing how lawmakers continuously write tech legislation without understanding how the underlying infrastructure works. Mandating age checks at the domestic web level does absolutely nothing to stop an increasingly tech-literate generation from simply firing up a proxy, changing their DNS routing, or jumping on a free VPN to access the unfiltered global web. All this bill achieves is burdening domestic platforms with massive compliance overhead while pushing actual kids away from localized, safe sites and deeper into unmoderated, international corners of the web where domestic laws have zero jurisdiction.