People are right to question how far age verification and digital ID requirements should go. Privacy matters, and platforms shouldn’t casually collect sensitive personal data without clear purpose, transparency, and user control.
That being said, it’s important we stay in the facts. There are legitimate conversations happening around protecting minors online. Where many of these efforts fall short is in execution overly broad laws, vague language, and solutions that risk compromising privacy for everyone, not just bad actors.
At WorldsWave, we’ve taken a different approach:
ID is optional, not required
Your ability to use the platform doesn’t depend on handing over personal documents
Verification is about trust signaling, not surveillance or access control
We believe safety and privacy are not mutually exclusive. You can protect users especially younger ones without building systems that feel like mass surveillance.
The real conversation we should be having is:
How do we protect minors without turning the internet into an ID-gated system?
That’s where innovation needs to happen not in forcing compliance through invasive data collection, but in building smarter, privacy-respecting tools.
We’re committed to staying on that path.
it seems all these draconian age verification laws are pushed by the same people. zuckerburg and meta are the main ones. many of the "for the children groups" are also being involved. seems both meta and these lobbyist groups are trying to build a database because they just liquidated and burned their list of minors that epstein had.
its not for protecting the kids its to surveillance the populace and watch people and their kids and invade peoples privacy in their own home and places of work.
Its to build a database for digital ID and build their sex trafficking database so they go fuck kids and jerk off to CP. there used to be a day when age restricted sites or social media wasn't really "restricted" now you need a drivers license to watch 18+ corn or you need accounts to watch age restricted content on YT.
These Bills Languages are very Vague, Almost like its written by people who don't understand modern tech or social media, even California is going after things like linux and other OS's like MidnightBSD.
Theres some good news tho some OS's are "safe" since they are in other countries
Debian (they will comply)
Arch Linux (Forked To Get Rid of The Age Verification)
Garuda Linux (Safe)
Catchy OS (Safe)
Ubuntu (they will comply)
Red Hat (Already complying)
Nobara Linux (Announcement Said They Will Not)
Nix Os (Possibly will Comply)
Fedora (possibly complying in the future)
Pop OS (Possibly Forked In The Future)
Zorin OS (Windows Alternative (They Are Not Sure Yet)
MidnightBSD (Blocked Access In Cali)
OpenBSD (Complied Already
Meta (Complied A Long Time Ago
PickAxe (Requires ID For Verified Status)
WorldsWave (ID Is Optional But Not Required)
(Doesn't Matter if your verified or not)
X (Doesn't Require ID)
Instagram (Requires ID Same As Meta
Twitch (Wants Your W9 Tax Forms For Payout)
Rumble (Wants Your W9 Tax Forms For Payout) (Same As Twitch)
Kick (Wants The Same Thing As Twitch and Rumble)
Blaze Stream (Safe)
Youtube (Requires ID For Advanced Analytics)
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