There’s been an enormous furore over plans to introduce mandatory age verification for social media. While many people think it’s a good thing but policy experts oppose to. To help explain why; the online gaming platform Roblox has provide us with a very timely case study.
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Aidan O’Brien
Trump clutches Modi for support as he tries to climb a single small step
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Trump: This is a memorandum of understanding. It's very important, but it might not be the kind of a document that I should be signing. If it works out, I'm going to take the credit. If it doesn't work out, I'm blaming JD
Reminds me of Gibbon's description of post-collapse Romans who 'still considered themselves as the lords of the world... But they were living among the ruins of their own greatness, and the bones of their ancestors'.
Further evidence that today's Russia not the Soviet Union. Its run out of Soviet-era gyroscopes and is unable to make more.
