The EFF — properly — paints platforms as victims of the Online Safety Act age-verification provisions. The Online Safety Act incorrectly presumes that all content is classified or classifiable, that all users can be meaningfully KYC’ed as minors, and that a matrix permitting the latter to access the former is implementable, let alone enforceable:

But even Reddit, a site that prizes anonymity and has regularly demonstrated its commitment to digital rights, was doomed to fail in its attempt to comply with the OSA. Though Reddit is not alone in bowing to the UK mandates, it provides a perfect case study and a particularly instructive glimpse of what the age-verified future would look like if we don’t take steps to stop it.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/08/americans-be-warned-lessons-reddits-chaotic-uk-age-verification-rollout