Age verification failed. Regulating VPNs won't fix it
THE SO WHAT
Going after VPNs to enforce age checks is regulators attacking the routing layer instead of fixing broken identity primitives. If your product is exposed to age-gating rules, invest in privacy-preserving verification and assume network-level workarounds will remain available.
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