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To: S. maltophilia who wrote (600)	8/6/2025 11:24:01 PM
From: S. maltophilia	of 617

Another source: ....The Tea spillage is emblematic of what’s at risk when we attach our real-life identities to our online activities. Yet the tethering of identity to digital access is precisely what is prescribed by a new wave of laws going into effect around the world and in bills under consideration in the U.S. On the same day that the Tea leak was discovered, the Online Safety Act (OSA) rolled out in the United Kingdom. The act mandates that online platforms implement age verification in order to block underage users from “harmful and age-inappropriate content,” such as pornography and material that might encourage eating disorders, bullying, hate, or substance abuse. In theory, such laws protect minors, but in practice they affect all users’ experience of the internet. In order to verify who is a child online, after all, sites must also determine who is not. Adults in the U.K. now have to upload photos of their I.D.s showing their dates of birth or submit to other tests—facial-age estimation (from a selfie, say), a bank-.... newyorker.com

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