Comment on First Porn, Now Skin Cream? ‘Age Verification’ Bills Are Out of Control.

• Quill7513@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  your understanding of what the proposed header solution is is way off base. “protecting the kids” isn’t about keeping adults from interacting with kids in online forums, it’s about keeping the kids from accidentally seeing porn (really it’s about making the lives of sex workers more dangerous). think of it like a tv v-chip but for the internet, not as a nightclub bouncer creating two different online communities and making sure they don’t interact with eachother

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• dojan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The same thing that’s stopping pedophiles today of course.

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• emr@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The idea isn’t to let sites restrict adults, just let them restrict kids. So there wouldn’t be a child internet.

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  • slacktoid@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Then what’s to stop a kid from spoofing the adult headers? Wouldn’t that make the whole thing needlessly complicated?

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    • Screamium@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Of they’re old enough to figure that out then who cares?

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      • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        watching a tiktok video on it means nothing about maturity

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    • Petter1@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      😂 if my son gets how to spoof headers, he can watch all the porn he wants

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      • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        if he can do that it won’t tell anything about his intelligence, just that he has seen a video on tiktok about how to do it

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      • slacktoid@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        But then what’s the point of age verification, it’s pointless.

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    • ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You seem really up in arms about this.

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    • emr@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I think that’s up to device vendors giving parents decent controls and parents monitoring their kids devices. Which is admittedly not great, but still better than the honor system and more reasonable than submitting your license.

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• ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  So what if it was no different than now?

  Nothing stopping adults from playing Roblox now, but we know why they are there

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• humanspiral@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Lucky for the pedo, you never have to prove you are under 18, if that is what you tell the website.

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• gian@lemmy.grys.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I think he means that the headers come from the device making the call, not the one receing it, so a pedo should be able to change the headers of my device which is not that easy.
  Then yes, the receing end could simply ignore the header anyway, it would be way easier.

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  • slacktoid@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yes

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• Iheartcheese@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Don’t worry dude at least one person sees this is a joke

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