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> Once validated, the code is good for 1 year (or 6 months or 3 months, adjust based on how stringent you want to make it) - then it expires and a new one must be purchased.

That sounds fantastic, were just one step away from making social media entirely controlled by one single party

Perfect to push anyone you don't like into irrelevancy, politicians will love this

Journalists too, finally they can be rid of these pesky YouTubers that show how politically captured they're! Just need to get someone with admin permission in that company and you're golden





Politicians wouldn't know who has which "adult code", so they wouldn't be able to get a singular "adult code" banned/early expired by the (supposedly corrupt) code-keeping company. To know which code a particular Youtuber has, they'd need to be able to get that info from Youtube, and if they "have a man on the inside" of Youtube then they can just ask that person to ban the Youtuber in question.

> entirely controlled by one single party

Why? Multiple companies could compete in the market of age verification tokens.

Right now we have actual partisans buying actual social media companies (Twitter, TikTok) to control them. That's a much bigger threat vector.


> Multiple companies could compete in the market of age verification tokens

Why do we want this?

The entire proposal sounds designed to tank popularity for keeping kids off Instagram.


> Why do we want [multiple companies issuing tokens]?

To prevent a monopoly driving up prices. And to keep the government out of the business.




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