CommanderCloon

I agree that current day Turkey is flawed and that Erdogan is leading Turkey down a bad path. But Turkey officially registered as a full EU candidate 15 years prior to his presidency.

Europe welcoming Armenia but refusing Turkey for so long has some connotations huh

Last time the EU did this, Ericsson stock fell & they lost billion in Chinese contracts.

Right, I'm not really impacted because whenever I want to access something my gvt wouldn't want me to, I just use yandex.

Their prices have already been hiked up by way more than the SD

This would be simple. This would also not address the fundamental issue which is identification of bots vs. humans which are quietly destroying the online advertising industry (which, yeah, good riddance), which is what motivated Meta to lobby for online age verification to begin with. So it would fulfil the official purpose of age verification, but not it's real purpose

afaik it's straight up the opposite for the california law. I didn't read it myself, but from what I read online about it, they require a boolean "adult/minor" and forbid any other data collection related to age

Not really, because when an employee fails their task it's the employee's responsibility, and if it's catastrophic enough it can lead to firings or lawsuits. But as soon as it's a chatbot, the liability fully rests on the company. How long will insurance protect those companies too?

The issue is that those bots are worse in completely unpredictable ways. Like when some airline passengers were given incorrect information which led to the airline being sued and having to pay the made up offer as well as damages & tribunal fees. The bots might be unhelpful, but to the disservice of the company's financials

Also the amount of bots (including, to a limited amount, private openclaw bots browsing the web) means that ads served are not really delivered to many humans (and said bots are really getting good at bypassing traditional captchas) & that destroys the value proposition of ads. That's why Meta lobbies so hard for age verification -- they want to be able to distinguish humans from bots, as they used to be able to

I like feminine/twink guys, so everyone recommending big buff guys 💀💀

But I'm a gay guy so not the target of OP's question 😅 I just barged in because it's a dry desert in terms of my preferences out there 💀

They have simply by virtue of the working conditions getting nuked from orbit during the industrial revolution. Testimony from pre-industrial times show that we're working ourselves to the bone in comparison (I'll take that instead of, you know, literal medieval living conditions, but still)