Re: Age Verification
"The act of verifying the ages of 'net users is something else and pretty much unworkable, it seems to me. How do readers expect it could be handled?"
They'll probably go with something like this:
May in 2010: "This bill is the first step of many that this government is taking to reduce the control of the state over decent, law-abiding people and hand power back to them. With swift parliamentary approval, we aim to consign identity cards and the intrusive ID card scheme to history within 100 days."
May tomorrow: "Hello decent, law-abiding, and hopefully very forgetful people, this is the voice of your masters. In order to make this requirement workable we've been working on this foolproof little concept called biometric ID cards, backed by a centralised database. You will somehow use them (the Civil Service and pork-barrel contractors tell me not to worry about the details and I never do) to prove your age when you're online."
Biting the hand that feeds IT
