Legislation. If a country requires age verification, identity verification, moderation, etc, it's easy enough to either block that traffic or enforce the local laws. However users can easily circumvent this with a VPN. For some countries, this traffic is still in scope, and so the only real way to prevent it is to block or impose the restrictions on all VPN users.

Could also be spam/abuse prevention. Credential stuffing often goes through VPNs, signup over VPN is a strong signal for future abuse or issues in various ways.

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rendaw 21 hours ago | parent [-]

Yeah, but age verification for _music_?

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kube-system 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

There is also age-requirement legislation for platforms that contain social media components or collect private information, which SoundCloud also does.

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jihadjihad 17 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Were you around in the 90s? Remember when Marilyn Manson was blamed for Columbine?

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digitalsushi 19 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

well, what if an artist put something controversial in the lyrics, like, something that radicalizes a minor into developing something maligned like, agency, or self awareness

	▲	IAmBroom 19 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Tipper Gore, is that you?

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Analemma_ 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I'm guessing you're on the younger side and don't remember: there was an enormous moral panic about music in the 90s. There were ostensibly serious, sober Congressional hearings about it. Multiple people (e.g. Tipper Gore) made it their specific political hobbyhorse. It was the thing corrupting the youth, before the pivot to video games after Columbine. It's why we still have those black-and-white stickers on CDs (to the extent anyone buys CDs anymore).

I'd like to like that won't come back, but voting rights for women are back on the table, apparently, and SoundCloud is apparently worth age-gating, so I guess not.