An investigation of the forces behind the age-verification bills
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133 points
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March 14, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (2 comments)
spondyl
This is effectively a duplicate of this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47362528 I would also encourage taking a critical look at the underlying investigation as it seems mostly LLM generated without a huge amount of manual due dilligence
dang
Url changed from https://lwn.net/Articles/1062779/ , which points to this.