Comment on I'm struggling to think of any online services for which I'd be willing to verify my identity or age
halloween_spookster@lemmy.world 5 days agoI’m skeptical that governments know about these solutions given how little people in general understand technology. It’s a “we’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas” situation. Ideally they should have experts available to consult with when making laws to prevent BS like this.
Sturgist@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
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The people at the top certainly don’t. There IS absolutely large swaths of the government that definitely do. Even if only subconsciously, all (or most) government workers who use a workplace computer of some kind should understand that sites are able to be blocked. They might think you’d need to be a Grey Beard of the 16th Order to set it up, but I’d wager a fair percentage have tried to go to a site and it’s been blacklisted.