https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/26/u-k-starts-enforcing-online-age-check-rules/
The family could afford a big ceremony. He didn’t want the fuss but he knew there was no point in arguing. Giant screens, blank now of course. They didn’t want the message on them, just a pleasant, algorithmically chosen shade, waiting to be replaced with the feeds at the chosen time. The Official was there, a symbolic human representing the Agents and layers of security that were about to be stood down. His parents greeted family and friends and watched the children play. They, like he, knew the whole thing was a sham. They’d talked about it on the feeds