Identity verification is a feature, not a bug. They want to know who is consuming "problematic" content. One thing that the article leaves unclear is whether this just applies to accessing the site anonymously or just creating an account. COPPA only applies to account creation, not that it stopped YouTube from using COPPA as a pretext to shut down comments across huge swaths of the site.

Hopefully this leads to an exodus of websites from Commiefornia. Big Tech will never leave considering their communist sympathies, but that's no loss. Strangling those woke dumpster fires will only have good outcomes.