Seems like US wants to get ahead on this and be #1
Also Sam Altman will love this idea, because he already tried it with Worldcoin
It is using the proof of age requirement to require a much larger ask -- full proof of identity
Age verification could be done with any of a variety of mathematical systems showing you have a proven age-valid ID but not revealing your identity. But no one is suggesting they build and use such a system.
Comparing a private company's service to something run and maintained by an entire government on their population is disingenuous, to say the least.
Because one is a private company that people can choose to use or avoid. The other is a government that can force things upon people. How are they the same in any way?
You know many companies check ID, right? You submit ID for a lot of activities. This isn't a new concept that Anthropic invented.
If you do business with totalitarian societies that aren't made to liberalize, you too will become a totalitarian society.
No, they liked China because the standard of living meant that it was easy to improve people's lives while also keeping them in line via a government that wasn't above grinding protestors into hamburger with tank tracks. The bar to clear wasn't "maintain the American standard of living", it was "provide more calories than Mao did during the Great Leap Forward", and so long as they could do that, they'd get to do whatever else they wanted with the workforce. Anyone who wanted more would get to deal with the CCP.
free speech, civil liberties, voting, are in China all well below the standards of the west. The criticism and complaints were completely warranted and are still true today, whereas your comment falsely implies there is some parity.
could your comment be repaired to be reasonable? why bother, just read the rest of this discussion where people are debating these controls without trying to exonerate China.
Meanwhile in the Land Of The Free:
> Prairieland defendant sentenced to 30 years in prison for moving a box of antifascist zines
https://theintercept.com/2026/06/23/prairieland-texas-ice-pr...
> US President Donald Trump threatened a "10 year prison sentence" to anyone caught vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool
https://www.dw.com/en/us-trump-threatens-prison-for-reflecti...
