Age verification is the surveillance nobody voted for
CoinDesk· Evin McMullen· Jul 9, 2026 · 1:00 PM

KOSA and Chat Control both retreated on their most-criticized measures this week, but both kept mandatory age verification, the quiet mechanism that turns anonymous browsing into identified browsing for all of us, argues Billions CEO Evin McMullen.
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