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sunbeam60@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Ultimately someone has to vouch for “yes, this person is 18+”. People can’t self-attest, except through crappy biometric, so at some point a government ID has to be involved.

I’d trust my government over a credit reference agency that literally makes revenue from selling access to your private data.

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linule@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Yes, and governments, at least democratic ones, represent the interests of their people, so at least on paper this is the correct way to structure things. Then you use the channels to government to ensure it’s regulated properly. If there’s no trust here, there’s a larger problem.

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- ageedizzle@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Except in practice the Snowden leaks show us that democratic governments don’t always have our best interests at heart when it comes to this domain
  
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  - linule@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Then they’re not truly democratic, which is a problem on its own
    
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