Neil Brown on Nostr: My feeling - and I could be wrong - is that if we get a deluge of people ...
My feeling - and I could be wrong - is that if we get a deluge of people demonstrating how ineffective age assurance tools are, especially those implemented by people trying their best to do something local and on a shoe-string budget, we are not going to see the UK government throw and up their hands and say "oh well, we tried, we will repeal the law".
Instead, they will seek even more stringent measures.
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