>>714969280
I know it's mostly gone now but the Millennial Internet was truly something wondrous to behold, nothing at all like the corpo social media advertising hellscape we presently find ourselves in.

>>105795722
>countries all around the world bringing in mandatory age verification on the internet
>kids are inevitably just gonna use VPNs, proxies, TOR, I2P, whatever to get around it.
>"we have to ban these illegal hacker technologies to keep the children safe! we need mandatory unremovable safeguards built into all computing devices to prevent unauthorized programs from being run!"
yeah it's been a grand old journey this whole computer and internet thing but the end is in sight.