Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet

• bilb@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  And that kinda sucks, because that could actually be useful. For instance, you could set up a forum for people above the age of 40 or whatever while still letting everyone post pseudonymousy. A third party public service that can blindly attest that a person is over a certain age could be a great and convenient thing. It’s difficult to imagine such a thing happening, though.

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Sure, but it’ll be used by pearl-clutchers to enforce their morality on others.

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    • bilb@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Right, I’m imagining it as a service set up to be used if wanted/needed with no broad mandate. There are people running NSFW sites and channels that genuinely do not want minors interacting or accessing, and many would integrate this type of verification voluntarily if there was trust that it worked correctly and did not collect and distribute data about individuals. But I agree, that’s not what is on offer. So far from the UK it seems like they are letting private businesses figure it out.

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Right, I understand the idea, it’s just very common that any capability that is created will be misused.

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