Eric Goldman on fire, again:

I hold uncompromising views on this topic. For reasons I explain in 63 anguished and tear-stained pages, I am a categorical “no” on all online age authentication mandates. To me…

To me, it doesn’t matter what the laws are called, how the authentication duties are styled, what sales hooks the vendors use to obfuscate their solutions’ deficiencies, or what hypothetical fantasy outcomes policymakers think will materialize if the technologists just “nerd harder”–I oppose them all.

https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2025/04/why-i-emphatically-oppose-online-age-verification-mandates.htm