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I agree with everything you wrote. Including

> I wish these sites would voluntarily try to put some age-gating, but considering that a huge percentage of their traffic is underage, they have no incentive to do so.

That mandating a self-identification system (of the site, not the user) would solve 90% of the underage user problem exposes these governments' user-identification campaigns as pretext.



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