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The issue is, it's not feasible to enforce these sorts of bans because the internet is too vast. Yes, you can stop people from visiting PH or any of the big sit
by techjamie 1y ago
The issue is, it's not feasible to enforce these sorts of bans because the internet is too vast. Yes, you can stop people from visiting PH or any of the big sites, but for every big porn sites, there will be thousands of fly by night ones looking to make a buck. Age verification laws create a market for such sites which can be ran out of jurisdictions that the law can't control.
So next, we better make the devices age gate their users with attestation and destroy people's ability to use open operating systems on the web. Maybe for good measure we tell ISPs to block any traffic to foreign sites unless the OS reports that attestation.
But people are using VPNs to bounce traffic to other countries anyway, so now we need to ban those. But people still send each other porn over encrypted channels so we need to make sure encrypted platforms implement our backdoor so we can read it all, on top of on-device scanning which further edges out any open source players left in the game.
At what point do we stop chasing the rabbit?