Policy · 2h ago
Age verification laws risk enabling automated speech attribution
Proposed age verification mandates for online platforms could pave the way for systems that automatically attribute speech to individuals. Critics warn that such infrastructure, once built, would be easily repurposed for broader surveillance and censorship. The article argues that age verification is a stepping stone to automated attribution of all online speech.
Meridian48 take
The piece rightly flags a slippery slope, but the real danger may be less about intentional mission creep and more about the inevitable expansion of any identity infrastructure built at scale.
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