To Verify a Teen's Age, the UK First Has to Verify Everyone's Identity (techdirt.com)
The bill leaves messaging out (WhatsApp, Signal) and exempts YouTube Kids, then threatens multimillion-dollar fines for non-compliance, plus floated extras: overnight curfews and limits on infinite scroll for under-18s.
The author discloses he sits on a social-media board, which the thread treats as both a tell and a reason to discount him.
The harder asterisk comes from Australia's live version: a 15-year-old visitor reported it didn't touch existing accounts at all, because age checks there only gate newly created ones.
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