Welcome to the 'papers, Please' Internet
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The article discusses the increasing trend of age-gating on the internet, drawing parallels with the dystopian game 'Papers, Please', and HN commenters reflect on the implications for online freedom and privacy.
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I wish them all the miserable stinking ridiculous failure in the world. I fully expect this to be a wretched daemonic cursed ill begotten mess, destroying base privacy and security & bringing about little but fuck ups and bad. So much of it false flagged to protect children: two faced liars selling the destruction of civic rights & decency with false motive.
Knowing full well that only those who can afford the cost can read it.
Its not as if the news cannot be found at a thousand other websites and is most probably lifted and copied from other sources.
I used to pay for the news when I was working. I used to buy the guardian every day when it was 50p, to read on the 90 minute journey by train into the city.
fucked if I am going to pay some copy and paste merchant.