Battle over age verification heats up in increasingly censorious US

Depending on the point of view, online life in the United States is either marching toward safety for children or sliding into unprecedented government and corporate trackability.

States and even the U.S. Congress are pushing legislation that tries to gate online pornography and social media for access only by people who can prove they are 18 years old or older.

To accomplish one goal, protecting children, swaths of the internet would require people to prove their legal adulthood and that, …

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