To my understanding this law required much more invasive methods of age-verification than a simple “are you over 18?” prompt, which could potentially lead to people exposing sensitive personal information to malicious websites.
Take this with a grain of salt because i also haven’t read the article yet, but i remember this lawsuit from other posts a couple of months ago.
Here’s how that would go:
“Hey, Alice, what’s up, it’s Mike from the party!”
“Alice? What do you mean alice, she di…”
[Thinking] “shit, that’s a man’s voice. Must be her boyfriend.”
hangs up