Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

• Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Any kind of required age verification has significant privacy and security implications. Honestly I think the best approach is the pinky promise we’ve generally had until now, where by default the platform will not display explicit content until the user actively consents and asserts that they are of legal age.

  Why exactly do we need to be verifying age? Any kind of legal/government documents and agreements are already covered by purjory laws, physical deliveries and purchases are already handled by photo ID checks, and porn is of course harmful to teens/preteens but they’ve always been finding ways to access porn even before the home computer era (and honestly this would be better handled through education by schools and parents than forceful legislation)

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  • TheNamlessGuy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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    • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Is preventing teens’ access to pornography worth sacrificing the ability for every adult to have privacy online?

      This is a society level value judgement that has to be made, I’m not necessarily looking for hard answers

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• paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I don’t disagree. We need better tools for this.

  The problem is making sure these tools are not used as tools of the state for tracking.

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