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 3 weeks ago
Everyone who ever submits for age verification will have their information stolen. It is a matter of when, not if.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
ccunning@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I don’t think that’s the main reason folks are concerned about having their government IDs stolen.
bassomitron@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
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.
EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
It’s not really about the porn in the first place (for advertisers it is - they hate sex unless it’s selling their product). The porn is merely an avenue to attack another minority group. In this case, LGBTQ people. Make everything about them sexual in some way, and then ban them from life for sexual deviancy.
khepri@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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
bitchkat@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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.
Kcap@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Oui Oui, on my face…
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
snekerpimp@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Omelette du fromage. Omelette du fromage!
Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
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Cethin@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I VPN to Montreal servers. Everything is still displayed in English.
pdxfed@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Your response is also supposed to be legally in French.
MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
Interesting…all of it? I’m in Ontario but my hub/ISP is in Quebec so all my random advertising is in French.
Somehow it knows to target advertising to you in English…maybe you need to work on your privacy?
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
snekerpimp meant if every state requires ID, then VPN to another state will not get around the ID check.
nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
… and then all that will be left will be .onion sites
zerofk@lemmy.zip 3 weeks 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.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Is there a French version of /c/ich_iel?
grue@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I can only assume it would be something like !moi_evv if it existed.
phed@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Kwee-bec? Québec? Q-bec? Quebec?
ferrule@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
because you actually watch porn for the plot?
MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
Heh. I’m in Ontario, but I guess my DNS is outta Quebec…so most of my banner advertising is in French. It’s fucking awesome because I have no idea what they’re saying or advertising to me most of the time. Highly recommend.
root@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
I would count on them being hypocritical. The rich will just use Starlink.
Strider@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
Welp, now I’m off to XHamster. Thank a ton >B|