This is just the list of attendees though. The article talks about responses to survey questions as well which could give insight into how these elites really think.

Definitely. It would make life better in so many ways if everyone did this.

I heard Facebook was funding this in the US. Not sure if they’re responsible for it elsewhere too. It’s basically Five Eyes countries doing this, so you can bet it’s to do with their surveillance efforts. How do we stop it? First step is not to comply. Do not complete any age verification. If you are absolutely forced to, at least lodge complaints about it. If you are still required to, try to avoid giving any data, e.g. use a pre-recorded video of someone else or a videogame character to pass the age check. Second step is to use and support alternative platforms that avoid such measures.

Welcome to the resistance

Exactly

They recently used AI to translate a lot of code to Rust. Thought it sounded like a neat project right until then.

Thanks for the inside view. I never knew a lot of the survey takers came from mobile games or that spending could be tracked.

They could have an AI tweak the statistics if they seem unrealistic

That someone is Peter Thiel according to this: https://corbettreport.com/the-stupidest-poll-of-all-time/

Yup.

Leacked? Is that a portmanteau of hacked and leaked?

This is why biometric verification was always a bad idea

They have researchers working on other things too, don’t you worry

But wouldn’t that be very odd? A lot of those 40-year olds would probably give the middle finger.

Use cash for now, but start transitioning to other privacy currencies, especially those that don’t depend on technology, such as precious metals and local currencies like Ithaca hours. Edit: I say transition away from cash (as in government-produced cash) because that they have serial numbers that enable tracking and they can decide to declare them invalid or inflate away their value through printing if people continue to use them anyway.

Bills also have serial numbers on them

This seems like an excuse to normalize age/ID checks even for people who are obviously over 18. Totalitarian Britain being totalitarian as usual.

In this case yes, although it comes off as a very mild complaint

I have literally not seen anyone complain about it. As the tweet says “we just accept”.

Thanks, fixed now