Underage: 你｜妳｜Ni (all of you)

That line Bubble yelled above comes from Ms. Chen Fu at Ah-po Bay on Provincial Highway 3. She was cussing out (and warning) young people riding too fast.

This site tells everyone who comes in the same thing: take it slow. The whole site was made for slow reading. It asks for more time than most websites. But here, "slow" costs other people a few minutes. For you, it may well mean many days.

First, something difficult but serious. Under Article 235 of the Criminal Code of Taiwan, as interpreted by Judicial Yuan Interpretation No. 617 (2006), adult content must be kept behind "adequate protective and isolating measures." Article 40 of the Child and Youth Sexual Exploitation Prevention Act punishes the distribution of online messages that could put a child or young person at risk of sexual exploitation. Article 46-1 of the Child and Juvenile Welfare and Rights Protection Act bars making content harmful to young people's physical or mental health accessible to them without clear, workable protections. Violations bring fines; serious cases can bring an order to suspend business. That is why Bubble, or Security Auntie, just stopped you.

Lez is more follows the law because hardly anyone can afford what a criminal conviction costs. But compliance is not agreement.

In the past two years, age checks have hardened into law in many countries. In July 2025, the United Kingdom introduced age checks for adult services. In December 2025, Australia became the first country to enforce national age restrictions on social-media platforms for minors under 16. French lawmakers appear to have recently committed to a similar restriction for those under 15. More than half of US states have now introduced some form of age-gating on adult services or social media, and lawmakers in Denmark, India, Malaysia, and Nigeria are debating similar measures. In April 2026, Taiwan announced a draft amendment requiring platforms to create an "age-identification mechanism."

There are three ways to judge someone's age: "verification (authenticating against official government ID), estimation (predictive analysis of biometrics such as face and voice recognition), and inference (predictive analysis of digital behavior such as web browsing habits)."

Supporters say this is about "protection." But "many experts in child development, digital media, and technology governance strongly oppose age-based restrictions."

Legal scholar Julia Powles and children's online-safety researcher Kate Sim point to the premise that scientists question: "Decades of research across regions has failed to show any consistent link between either screen time or social-media use and negative impacts on mental health." The reality, they say, has layers.

The second objection is to the technology itself.

"All three are vulnerable to evasion, fakery, and errors." "Australia's own trial of estimation and inference techniques exhibited low accuracy in the key demographic of 13- to 16-year-olds, meaning that a 14-year-old could be mistakenly categorized as over 16, or that a 16-year-old could be mistakenly blocked for being underage. The trial also performed poorly with female, non-Caucasian faces, exhibiting the lowest accuracy for Indigenous and Southeast Asian individuals."

South Korea tried something similar more than twenty years ago. In the early 2000s it introduced an internet real-name system to curb online harassment, but requiring real names and government ID did not stop the abuse. "A study by the Korean Communications Commission found that the policy decreased malicious comments as a share of all online comments by only 0.9 percentage points, leading the government eventually to scrap it."

"The UK's rollout of age checks on 'harmful content' in the summer of 2025 reinforced widespread concerns over censorship, with sites for child modeling and pick-up artists persisting, while heavy-handed blocks were meted out against SpongeBob gifs, political content declaring a genocide in Gaza, and an online community for single dads."

"The final report concluded that successful age-gating would require a broad ecosystem of additional authentication techniques, implying the creation of troves of personal data – children's biometrics, social-media activity logs, credit-card histories. The result would be to raise security and safety risks for everyone on the internet, not just young people."

"Age-gating and other digital ID methods create centralized databases of personal information that connect to third-party systems, rendering them vulnerable to data breaches, cyberattacks, and censorship. When Discord's age-verification provider was hacked in September 2025, it exposed government ID photos of some 70,000 global users."

Kate Sim puts the real gain elsewhere.

"These vendors also stand to gain lucrative contracts with big platform companies and government agencies as the market for digital identity verification expands."

Age gates have one more, deeply cynical use. "Finally, at a time when digital platforms face mounting lawsuits for harms done to children through chatbots and deepfakes, the most cynical use of age-gating is as a liability shield. Even if it is ultimately unpersuasive, one could imagine companies trying to avoid responsibility by shifting blame to young people for finding their way onto age-restricted platforms."

Powles and Sim also acknowledge the harm is real. "There is no doubt that some young people experience harm from their use of social media. But these effects are connected to a complex interplay of social and psychological factors, like poverty and pre-existing mental-health conditions. In other cases, adolescent social-media use can deliver benefits, including increased social connection and reduced loneliness.

Kate Sim has worked in sexual-violence prevention and response for more than fourteen years. Reporting the view of clinical experts and advocates on the front line of child-sexual-abuse response, she writes: "They claim the act will severely restrict young people's access to sexual and reproductive health information and resources, further endangering them." She also notes: "Some research suggests that children who don't know how to name their body parts are at a higher risk of sexual abuse."

Taiwanese scholars were already questioning how this "protection" could be weaponized in 2012. Josephine Ho argued that putting age at the center "instead subjects children and young people (and the public as a whole) to tighter control" (translated from Chinese).

Lez is more once quoted this passage on this page:

Lafei's fear was taught.

One-sided exclusion, expulsion, and verification "save (adults) trouble" and "reduce controversy." They do not improve the resources or conditions that would actually help.

The door you just met uses self-declaration. It takes no ID, scans no face, and estimates no age. No verification company handles your data. The whole site uses zero cookies and zero behavioral profiling. Powles and Sim end elsewhere: "Policymakers and advocates who are serious about children's safety and privacy online should coalesce around a ban on behavioral advertising and on profiling young people." Lez is more is small, but we already do both. And not only for young people. We do it for everyone, whatever their age.

We take seriously the moment when you clicked "I am under the legal age." This page records nothing. It sets no cookie, writes nothing into your browser, and leaves no trace that you came here.

The rules about what you may and may not see were written after adults finished arguing among themselves.

You do not need to answer now. But you can think about it.

The gate exists because this is what the law looks like right now. The law will probably change. The debates you just read are adults arguing over how. Much of that lies beyond what Lez is more can do.

But Lez is more will wait here for you as best it can. We will wait until you reach the legal age, and wait while you build judgment of your own (many people grow old without ever truly building judgment of their own). Maybe one day you will have the power to redraw this line with your own hands.

Until then, ride slowly.