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> I really don’t think any platform will be able to counter this. Do platforms want to counter it? Seems to me with an unreliable video selfie age verificatio
by michaelt 8mo ago
> I really don’t think any platform will be able to counter this.
Do platforms want to counter it?
Seems to me with an unreliable video selfie age verification:
* Reasonable people with common sense don't need to upload scans of their driving licenses and passports
* The platform gets to retain users without too much hassle
* Porn site users are forced to create accounts; this enables tracking, boosting ad revenue and growth numbers.
* Politicians get to announce that they have introduced age controls.
* People who claimed age checks wouldn't invade people's privacy don't get proven wrong
* Teens can sidestep the age checks and retain their access; teens trying to hide their porn from their parents is an age-old tradition.
* Parents don't see their teens accessing porn. They feel reassured without having to have any awkward conversations or figure out any baffling smartphone parental controls.
Everyone wins.
- internetter 8mo agoUntil somebody (likely a politician or anti-porn advocacy group) decides to poke the bear and ruin it
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- nofriend 8mo agoIt depends. If the law says "you must perform such-and-such steps to verify age" then no, they don't care if you can counter it. If the law says "you must use an approach that is at least x% effective" then yes they do care if enough people counter it. We already had a half-assed solution, where websites would require you to press the button that says "I am over 18". Clearly somebody decided that wasn't good enough. That person is not going to stop until good enough is achieved.
- mjevans 8mo agoHow about just requiring browser, OS vendors, and phone makers to give parents real child accounts that are easy to use and keep kids off the Internet?
- mattnewton 8mo agoI'm becoming increasingly cynical that the lack of privacy in online communication is what most of the sponsors of these bills are after, and people thinking of the real harms to children are useful to them.
- GuB-42 8mo agoI would rather avoid having the government decide what I should run on my devices, private companies are already bad enough.
- zythyx 8mo agoThere are a lot of actual solutions that could be implemented that don't invade privacy, but that's the point. These rules are all designed TO invade your privacy. They're designed for you to give up your online anonymity and make you accountable for your speech and actions online.
- giantrobot 8mo ago> They're designed for you to give up your online anonymity and make you accountable for your speech and actions online. They're designed destroy anonymity to give the in group pretext to persecute the out group. It will be propagandized as accountability but it will be anything but.
- foltik 8mo agoIs this serious or meant as satire about us-vs-them framing?
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- tjoff 8mo agoIf we normalize this shit everyone will lose. > Reasonable people with common sense don't need to upload scans of their driving licenses and passports Cue random bans. > People who claimed age checks wouldn't invade people's privacy don't get proven wrong And? Is that supposed to change anything?
- ge96 8mo ago> Porn site users are forced to create accounts I'm curious the sites that enforce this like 'your state has banned...' what traffic loss they have. Because I'm not gonna sign up for a porn site lmao, the stigma
- ulrikrasmussen 8mo agoI think you forgot : * authorities get to selectively crack down on sites for not implementing "proper" age verification. The sites never had a widespread problem with grooming to begin with but just so happened to have a lot of other activity that the authorities didn't like. Having everyone operate in a gray area is dangerous and threatens the rule of law.
- hhh 8mo agoDiscord does have a problem with grooming.
- ulrikrasmussen 8mo agoI did not mean to talk about Discord specifically but all sites which will be required to do age verification. It wouldn't be hard to imagine a situation where social media sites leaning towards the government (e.g. Truth Social, X or the like) will be getting a free pass on using age verification methods which are easy to bypass while social media sites that are more critical (e.g. Reddit) will be sanctioned into implementing the strictest and most privacy invading measures. The end result is that people choosing the path of least resistance will be lead to the government-leaning sites.
- hhh 8mo agoYes, I think there needs to be a way to do attribute based credentials or provide as anonymous as possible authorization for citizens from the government. Somewhere between DigID and the DECODE projects ABC trials in Amsterdam.
- raincole 8mo ago> Everyone wins. Only if the lawmakers agreed.