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

• 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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  • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It is pointless, it was always pointless and always will be. That’s the point. Before the internet kids were stealing their dad’s or brother’s Hustlers and Playboys. For most of the internet’s time so far you just click a button that says “yes I’m over 18 I pinky promise”. In the future of the internet any effort to seriously implement age verification short of submitting a DNA sample is going to be bypassed. Trying to find porn is one of only like four things that teenage boys think about, you’re not going to stop that signal. Ask anyone born before 2000 about forest porn and they’ll probably have a story about finding a couple magazines or a VHS stashed in the woods somewhere near where they lived as a kid.

    Best case, you just drive them off the mainstream sites that verify age and onto shadier websites that don’t. Or the kid that steals his dad’s ID to watch porn starts downloading and distributing them on USBs to everyone in his school, makes like $800, and then gets arrested, now this kid has an unnecessary sex crime on his record because the government really wants to know when you’re jerking off. It’s all just pointless performatism that causes more problems than it solves. And that’s not even getting into the fact that a nefarious government, which we definitely have here in America, can use that information to pinpoint especially LGBT folks via their porn viewing habits.

    So at best it’s stupid and useless and at worst it’s going to get people killed.

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    • VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      That’s the bit about this I hate, I do think porn can be dangerous especially for people who aren’t emotionally and intellectually ready for it but these systems do the opposite of help.

      Teens are curious, letting them sneak a peek at pornhub doesn’t have much risk but forcing them to learn how to accesses backroom porng R ** from seedy discord groups or similar puts them in actual genuine danger from preditors and exposes them to far more intense and possibly illegal porn.

      In my friends kids school there was a situation with a girl that had an iPhone she’d been sent by some guy on roblox, rumor was she’d ‘earned it’ when playing at a friend’s house with less strict parental supervision. It’s already hard to stop teens putting themselves in danger, especially with so many bad people out there preying on them.

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    • slacktoid@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That’s what I’m trying to get at!

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  • DBNinja@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Couldn’t a kid “borrow” their parent’s ID for the age verification? Isn’t it just as pointless today?

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    • BobQuixote@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      If I were building the feature, I’d put the “adult” header behind a password.

      But that’s a solution only for the one browser. You’d need to forbid the OS account in use from installing new apps so the kid can’t get a different browser. And now it’s starting to be inconvenient for the parent.

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      • VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        And lock down the computer so it can’t use a bootdisk, lock out programs that can be used to circumvent locks like steam, browser plug-ins, and other VM stuff…

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