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‘Scan your face’ laws for the web are having unexpected consequences (www.washingtonpost.com)

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"unexpected"

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[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 14 hours ago

Could you please put a short summary of the article in the post body?

Something like:

Porn sites that ignore age-check laws are getting a flood of traffic - The Washington Post

The age-verification laws rapidly expanding across the United States and United Kingdom are bringing with them some surprising downsides, including bursts of traffic to seedy parts of the web. August 31, 2025 at 7:05 a.m. EDT

Sothat users don't have to click the article to get a quick overview of what it's about. Saves you 5 clicks - open article, figure out it's behind a paywall, go to archive.is, paste the article link, read article.