Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn

jerkface@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Why do you bother saying this? You really think 10, 15 years ago sites required you to upload photo ID? Did you even use the Internet back then?

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  • Hozerkiller@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    They saw “you must be 18 to enter” and went “oh man” like swiper.

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  • jerkface@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    If you want to purchase commercial porn, you need a credit card. To use a credit card, you must reveal the verified identity associated with it. To answer your initial question, my point was to draw your attention to the many interactions you already accept that are strongly associated with your legal identity. Personally, I would rather not give up my legal identity just to buy groceries from my local corrupt corporate grocery store, and I find that a LOT more invasive than doing so for porn.

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    • ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Okay, but we’re talking non-commercial and commercial websites alike both requiring photo ID.

      That’s something new, that hasn’t happened before.

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