New from Disney… “Sith Babies! Two there should be. No more, no less. Why? Because they’re the terrible twos!”

They don’t want their own spaces as much as making other people’s spaces are theirs too - aka “This is why we can’t have nice things”

Why would anyone switch off IPv4? That makes no sense and isn’t commonly done. You run dual stack in most cases – NAT v4 and straight v6. A lot of folks are using v6 on mobile phones without even realizing it because telcos ran the numbers years ago and realized it was cheaper to push v6 at the end user layer than run NAT and/or try to find v4 addresses on the transfer market. There’s been no unallocated pool of v4 space for almost a decade.

What do you imagine the “cost” is?

None of the age verification services respect privacy - that’s baked into the whole push for it. Because it’s not just about “verifying” people’s ages at a specific point in time, especially in the US, it’s about being able to prove you have in case anyone tries to sue you.

Headlines like this really need to put the emphasis on the cause, e.g. “UK Government Forces Bluesky to Roll Out Age Verification”