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Age verification is the surveillance nobody voted for

CoinDesk 9 Jul 2026 1 views

KOSA and Chat Control both retreated on their most-criticized measures this week, but both kept mandatory age verification, the quiet mechanism that turns anonymous browsing into identified browsing for all of us, argues Billions CEO Evin McMullen.

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