This is the first major legal framework characterizing age verification systems as 'segregation' infrastructure. The shift from voluntary age checks to mandatory authentication of ALL users (both minors and adults) creates an unprecedented capability to systematically separate and control populations based on personal characteristics - a technical foundation that could enable future prophesied restrictions.
Global Age Verification Laws: Digital Segregation Infrastructure
📰 What Happened
Stanford Law School expert Eric Goldman has published a critical analysis of emerging age verification legislation, labeling them as 'segregate-and-suppress laws.' The paper examines how these laws require online platforms to authenticate every user's age and restrict content access accordingly. Goldman argues these measures, while intended to protect minors, actually harm them by creating artificial barriers and differential treatment between adults and children in digital spaces.
📖 Prophetic Significance
While not explicitly geographic, this digital infrastructure transcends physical boundaries to create virtual territories of control. The evolution from 'age verification' to 'age assurance' to 'segregate-and-suppress' reveals an expanding system of digital boundaries and restrictions. This mirrors prophecies about the Beast system's ability to control who can 'buy or sell' by categorizing populations. Goldman's analysis exposes how seemingly protective measures establish the technical and legal precedent for broader prophesied restrictions that will eventually segment humanity based on compliance with the coming system.