Macron and the head of the WHO just put out a joint statement calling for online age verification to protect kids. Here is the part they skip over: to check a child's age, a platform has to check everyone's identity. The age gate logs the adults too. The WHO and France warn that data profiling threatens your privacy, then in the same statement they demand age verification systems that collect even more of your identity.

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France and WHO Push Social Media ID Checks

The pitch is protecting kids from algorithms. The mechanism is a permanent identity checkpoint over the entire internet.