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The Age-Gated Internet Revisited: Identity, Trust and the Architecture of Control

This article responds to thirty-two questions posed in response to my earlier piece, “The Age-Gated Internet: Child Safety, Identity Infrastructure, and the Not So Quiet Re-Architecting of the Web”, where I explored how age verification and identity systems are beginning to reshape the internet. It examines the assumptions behind these developments and situates them within a broader architectural shift.

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The Death of the Commons and the Piss-Taking Wannabee Founders

A wave of performative, over-leveraged start-ups is degrading the shared trust that underpins venture capital. By making absurd nine-figure asks on the back of debt and bravado, showboating founders extract attention while imposing costs on everyone else. The result is harsher funding conditions, deeper scepticism, and the steady erosion of the start-up ecosystem as a commons.

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