Folks in Missouri now need to prove they are 18 or older to access content deemed “harmful for minors” online.
Missouri’s age verification law officially took effect on Sunday, November 30, 2025, and requires all websites or applications containing at least 33% “harmful” material to verify their users’ age before granting them access. Failing to comply with the new rules could cost companies up to $10,000 a day in fines.
Under the new rules, any mobile operating systems with at least 10 million users in the country – think Apple and Google – must provide a digital identification system that websites or applications can use to check their users’ age, notes TechRadar.
Missouri’s age-verification mandate imposes a sweeping surveillance and censorship regime that will lock millions of adults and young people out of vibrant and lawful online spaces,” activist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Molly Buckley, told TechRadar.
Buckley is especially critical of the law’s “vague standard” and “harsh penalties,” noting that providers can face fines of up to $10,000 a day for non-compliance. She told TechRadar that these risks could “push platforms to over-censor important content, flee the state entirely, or ban young people outright in order to avoid risk of liability.”
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