Ancestors

Written by evacide on 2025-01-12 at 20:17

Tired: needing a VPN to "safely access" public wifi.

Wired: needing a VPN to access PornHub and TikTok.

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Toot

Written by Alex on 2025-01-12 at 20:39

@evacide genuine question. Is it a bad thing to require age verification for things that are tied to addictions (porn, gambling, gaming, etc)? I think S. Korea requires SSNs for Internet access in general and it helps to regulate some of that. I've not fully thought out potential cons and I kind of just stumbled on the PornHub thing last week.

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Descendants

Written by ᒍᗪᙎ 🇨🇦 on 2025-01-12 at 21:29

@xsamwellx @evacide The basic problems are:

1. User: not possible to prove your age without providing your identity.

2. Company: Not possible to limit access to only those of age without collecting age data on every single user.

Whether that’s a “bad thing” or not is a completely individual moral judgment not really related to the issue.

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Written by Sophie Schmieg on 2025-01-12 at 22:03

@jdw @xsamwellx @evacide I don't think it's helpful to pose this as a technological problem. You can do this, using anonymous credentials, but that does not answer the question whether you should, or whether users believe that it actually works even if it does.

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