"Since 2022, twenty-five US states covering more than 40% of the US population have adopted laws compelling websites with content “harmful to minors” to verify their users’ ages. Many websites ... rely on third-party services, effectively outsourcing age verification... little is known about how these services are shaping the web and affecting use…

An IETF Internet-draft (a working document) which "describes solution-agnostic and technology-neutral schema for how various intermediaries can gate content and services based on age" Two dimensions are analysed:"efficacy of permitting or restricting access based on age,privacy costs of doing so.The document concludes with recommendations as well …

I first met Agora Citizen Network, "a platform for public deliberation using Polis-style clustering" a year or so ago. Now they're moving to ATprotocol and "proposing the Decentralized Deliberation Standard (DDS) as an open protocol for deliberation, built on AT Protocol".This post goes through their history, which started by investigating how to …