@matthew_d_green This is an interesting perspective on age verification that I haven’t heard before. In spite of the political issues around age verification I can’t say it’s wrong.

@matthew_d_green Have you given consideration to the framework for thinking about these kinds of problems that @VaroufakisDE writes about in his book #technofeudalism?

I feel like the problem here isn’t that people aren’t giving enough thought to what we are building, but rather that people *have* thought about it, decided that’s the future they want to build, and they’re busy consolidating its defenses while it’s still marginally vulnerable to any subversion at all.

@matthew_d_green

I think your assessment of "pretend to care, but don't" is wrong.

20% of users have an ad blocker, 10% pick a 401k if not the default.

And right now I’m seeing very little deep thought about this stuff. We’re putting more tech and legislative and policy energy into stablecoins and TikTok than we are into how the entire Internet will work over the next 50 years. That should change!