John Scott-Railton on U.K.’s Age-Verification Laws

A new U.K. age-verification law aimed to protect children can push people to seedier parts of the web. Citizen Lab senior researcher John Scott-Railton spoke with the Washington Post about the “law of unintended consequences” faced by regulators. 

The law “suppresses traffic to compliant platforms while driving users to sites without age verification,” says Scott-Railton. “The more the government squeezes, the more they reward the very sites that scoff at their rules.”

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