The biggest lie being spread about age verification is that it’s some backdoor for the government to see everything you do online.
That’s simply not how modern age verification works.
I’ve worked with KYC, AML and age verification systems for years. In nearly all cases, the age check acts as a gatekeeper. It confirms you’re old enough to access a service, then keeps that information ring-fenced within a secure, encrypted system. The website gets a “yes” or “no” answer. It doesn’t suddenly hand the government a list of every site you visit or every video you watch.
The entire point of modern verification technology is to prove eligibility while sharing as little personal information as possible. In many systems, even the verification provider itself has extremely limited access to user data.
People are entitled to debate whether age verification laws are a good idea. But the claim that verifying your age for a website automatically creates a government surveillance database of your browsing history is misinformation from people who either don’t understand the technology or are deliberately trying to create outrage.
Argue the policy if you want. Just argue the reality, not the conspiracy theories.
Minecraft Twitter at it again: borderline defamation and manufacturing drama out of nothing.
Scraping random connections to stir up hate against Spark Universe & Modrinth? These teams are actually building quality tools, mods and servers, genuinely improving the Minecraft experience for the whole community.
There a many things to say about the Minecraft ecosystem and how many bad actors exist within it, but this... stop the toxic witch hunts.
So the founders of Spark are personal friends with some guy who works for an AI company. Also, Modrinth’s founder has been hyping up AI nonsense on Twitter since he got his money from selling Modrinth back in February. What the hell is going on
@iegor_gran La radiothérapie en question: des centaines de milliers de morts.
L’analogie d’écrivain raté dont le conflit est devenu son gagne-pain (et toute sa personnalité)