One particular way in which the story makes no sense to me: The website wants to ask a question about "the visitor." How does it identify the visitor in its message to the central authority? If nothing prevents it, said visitor could simply pass the question on to Charlie's Web Age Verifier Bypass Service down the road which is in posession of an age-appropriate keypair, and relay the response in an automated fashion. How does one prevent that?
I mean it's not as if people wouldn't do it. Borrowing an older kid's ID to buy beer was commonplace when I was younger. Imagine if it could be done automatically, instantly, on a large scale. Shutting down The Pirate Bay is already nigh-impossible for the powers of law and order, it seems. Imagine if everyone under the age of 31 had to use it if they wanted to connect to Instagram.
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