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I'm proposing that organizations like that recognize that age verification is going to happen, and try to ensure that when that happens there will be at lease s
by tzs 3mo ago
I'm proposing that organizations like that recognize that age verification is going to happen, and try to ensure that when that happens there will be at lease some age verification services that do it in a way that doesn't subject you to a "papers, please" situation every time you go to a website that has to check age.
It can be done with either 0 or 1 "papers, please" events per device rather than 1 per website or worse 1 per website visit, and without preventing anonymous access, but most of the laws do not require that it be done that. Most age verification services will do the minimum required, which usually will mean they are more intrusive and more leaky.
The best way they could ensure that, if they can't convince governments to write the age verification laws to require it, would be to operate such a service themselves.
- squigz 3mo agoI hate how quickly some people have just accepted age verification is inevitable.
- inigyou 3mo agoYou got an alternative proposal? You could run you and 537 of your best friends for Congress and make it illegal
- squigz 3mo agoI'm not American. Nor is Motherless. And yet...
- inigyou 3mo ago.com is American.
- walrus01 3mo agoBut should it be? Verisign having control over it is a weird historical artifact of the early days of the internet.
- inigyou 3mo agoall non-two-letter TLDs are American. I think we should ban them all and put them under .us, but it will never happen. You can't get there from here. Path dependence. Also ICANN should have gotten the corporate death penalty when it announced gTLDs.
- tzs 3mo agoLook at all the countries with it already or that are in the midst of implementing it [1]. It won't stop there. Even if the tide turns it is going to be pretty widespread before it ebbs. Why not work to make sure before that happens it is done in a way that protects privacy? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_age_verification_laws_by_country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_age_verification_laws_b...