alecm on Nostr: ## Mandatory Age Verification + Lack of Account Memorialization = Horrific ...

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Mandatory Age Verification + Lack of Account Memorialization = Horrific Insensitivity by Substack (& others?)

This, from Mark Nottingham; it’s easy to throw mud at Substack for implementing age verification in this way / for not implementing out of band account memorialization, but this underscores how age verification is a proxy for state mandated identity checks in systems that have no other reason to perform them & are not (should not?) be required to have them:

https://bsky.app/profile/mnot.net/post/3mmioi65ive26



#ageVerification #australia #substack