Ironically? If we were a less prudish society this genuinely wouldn’t matter.
“Oh no! Sarah likes threesome porn. Uhm… okay?”
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Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 14 hours ago
Everyone who ever submits for age verification will have their information stolen. It is a matter of when, not if.
Ironically? If we were a less prudish society this genuinely wouldn’t matter.
“Oh no! Sarah likes threesome porn. Uhm… okay?”
I don’t think that’s the main reason folks are concerned about having their government IDs stolen.
Yeah, people already browse porn with zero privacy precautions, so linking their fetishes to them would be trivial. The main concern is having yet another privacy vulnerability vector for identity theft.
And there are so many of those these days that a new one genuinely doesn’t matter.
If you haven’t been offered a free year of identity theft insurance recently? Some company/org is plugging their ears.
SSNs are a fundamentally broken system (look it up). Photo IDs? I will guarantee you that if you go to ANY city there is someone at the DMV who will look up whatever you want for fifty bucks. The ONLY reason credit card fraud is less massive than it is (and it is MASSIVE) is because the CC companies put in the effort to monitor that and lock it down.
EVERYONE should have their credit records locked unless they are actively applying for something.
yeah I barely can bring myself to give like Fidelity or Charles Schwab photos of my ID, just even having a digital image of my ID on my computer feels wrong lol
I just went through fun trying to explain to a company that my company is a contractor for why I wouldn’t be scanning my passport and emailing it to them.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I mean, a VPN is way cheaper than whatever hoops Idaho wants you to jump through to watch some 10/10 goth hottie get her ass eaten.
Strider@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
As a watcher from the outside:
It might not be fun to hear but vpn is neither the solution to government oppression nor a solution against tracking (recently there was a good article regarding that) so all you do is pay more.
snekerpimp@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Yea, but soon we’ll have no states to vpn to, and we will have to start using the Quebec servers, then all the websites will be in French and I’ll have to learn a new language.
kambusha@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
Omelette du fromage. Omelette du fromage!
Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 hours ago
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zerofk@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
This is the plan all along. It’s not about porn, it’s not even about control. It’s about teaching Americans a second language. You know who’s behind this? Duolingo and Big Language.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
I VPN to Montreal servers. Everything is still displayed in English.
pdxfed@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Your response is also supposed to be legally in French.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I’ve yet to see any state legislature take that proposal seriously. Unlike trying to make porn sites take your credit card info in advance (a policy they hated so much gosh darn it!) you’re really fucking with the money when you try and regulate VPNs. Also, just… not really that practical. For the same reason Congress has been pretty toothless when it comes to regulating Torrents and digital encryption, going after VPNs at the regulatory level is something of a technological rabbit hole.
baronvonj@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
snekerpimp meant if every state requires ID, then VPN to another state will not get around the ID check.
nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 11 hours ago
… and then all that will be left will be .onion sites
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Is there a French version of /c/ich_iel?
grue@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
I can only assume it would be something like !moi_evv if it existed.
phed@lemmy.ml 9 hours ago
Kwee-bec? Québec? Q-bec? Quebec?
root@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
States are also considering banning VPNs now as well. This will never work and is a horrible idea, but it’s being considered.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Well, some legislators have proposed taking wack-a-mole to the next level and demanding all VPNs be certified and regulated. But good luck getting that passed through the Silicon Valley Presidency or the Ancap Courts.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
I would count on them being hypocritical. The rich will just use Starlink.