Years from now, expect to see similar bans in America as authoritarianism combined with a docile population fail to curtail abuses by a corrupt ruling class similar to Putin's Russia. Already, there are age-verification for adult sites in some states and now age-gating required of operating systems too... these green shoots are priming the populace to accept incremental intrusions and privacy invasions more readily.
Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/world/europe/russia-putin...
Archive: https://archive.is/wip/IJeyA
Years from now, expect to see similar bans in America as authoritarianism combined with a docile population fail to curtail abuses by a corrupt ruling class similar to Putin's Russia. Already, there are age-verification for adult sites in some states and now age-gating required of operating systems too... these green shoots are priming the populace to accept incremental intrusions and privacy invasions more readily.
oh can one hope...