I really don’t want to look up and read any actual articles about any of these proposed age-verification laws, because I know it’ll send me into a depression spiral

But I am kinda wondering what exactly the wording is on how they require websites to do their verification

I mean. Clearly they allow methods that do not work at all (face recognition; history of what videos you’ve watched before; arguably credit cards and ID cards too, because kids living in their parents’ houses usually have pretty easy access to those)

And if that’s the case, and if the specifications on what type of verification you can use are vague enough….

would it be possible for a website to follow the letter of the law while not actually following the harmful spirit of it

“what is this household object that only OLD people will recognize?? prove you’re an adult by clicking the correct answer. (You get unlimited tries and we’re not stopping you from googling anything)”

Something like that

I mean I’m not expecting we could actually get away with it. But it’d be nice. And (as someone working on my own website) I’d like to know the exact parameters of what we CAN get away with…