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  "path": "/t/apple-expands-age-verification-to-singapore-south-korea/36864#post_3",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-08T06:28:48.000Z",
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  "textContent": "I don’t know about situations in Singapore, but age verification in South Korean has been normalized so much to the point that most people view age verification as “normal” and “default” behavior, so sadly there won’t be any major backlash.\n\nCurrent state of censorship in South Korea is surprisingly bad for a “first world country”, probably due to old politicians that are illiterate about privacy, and extremist TERFs that are very vocal about anything remotely sexual.\nISPs are required to scan SNI field of every HTTPS request, so without workarounds like VPN, users cannot access any adult websites or “harmful” websites even when they are adult and age verified, which is just stupid.\nAlso KakaoTalk, which is a messenger/chat app that has monopoly on Korean market, is well known for lack of E2E encryption (It technically does have E2E option, but it is very hidden and limited to the point that nobody uses it), scanning chats for sexual photos or drawings, and cooperating with law enforcement and government intelligence agencies.\nBut no body is ditching KakaoTalk, and corporations and government services views KakaoTalk as an official standard messenger, as if they are digital postal service.\nSo, many of them are entirely ditching SMS for KakaoTalk, and nobody even knows or cares about RCS.\nIt is just really sad…\n\nOne thing that I don’t understand from this article is that I thought Korean users were already required to do age verification even before this update? Maybe Apple changed the way of handling age verification, but I’m quite sure Apple and Google account users had to do age verifications to download adult apps, even before this update.\n\nAs a workaround, at least it is easy to change region setting in Apple ID, for now…",
  "title": "Apple Expands Age Verification to Singapore & South Korea"
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