Governments around the world are introducing age-verification and youth social-media laws, but these policies may be doing far more than protecting children. They are quietly pushing identity into operating systems, app stores, and the core infrastructure of the internet, shifting governance down the stack and creating new enforcement chokepoints. Along the way, they reshape platform … Continue reading The Age-Gated Internet: Child Safety, Identity Infrastructure, and the Not So Quiet Re-Architecting of the Web