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And unlike in the real world, there's little to no real benefit to it online. What value is there to industrializing any of this? Kids who will pay someone for
by jeroenhd 6mo ago
And unlike in the real world, there's little to no real benefit to it online.
What value is there to industrializing any of this? Kids who will pay someone for their age tokens to watch porn or create social media would probably be smart enough to download a free VPN instead.
Even in the very worst case scenario for the designers of this system, where large amounts of people manage to extract their tokens and hand them out for free, the downsides everyone fears won't apply anymore. I think a lot of people might be happy about that.
- broken-kebab 6mo agoI'm not sure I understand your last para. Care to elaborate?
- dwedge 6mo agoThis "they'll just use a vpn" argument is infuriating to me because it's being used to downplay intrusive laws and make them more palatable. The obvious next step (the UK already hinted at it after the online safety act) is forcing VPNs to do ID verification.
- knollimar 6mo agoif anything, the "they'll just use a vpn" is an argument for the other way. Law has privacy downsides and is trivially bypassable -> law is bad.
- throw-the-towel 6mo agoAnd then, blocking the VPNs that don't comply, Russia style. (If you're sure It Can't Happen Here,[0] you're part of the problem.) [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Can%27t_Happen_Here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Can%27t_Happen_Here