Comment on I'm struggling to think of any online services for which I'd be willing to verify my identity or age
Sturgist@lemmy.ca 5 days agoPeople have been forgetting that home routers come with something called parental controls.
When my wife and I first signed up with Virgin as our ISP there was parental control turned on by default. Had to put in my credit card info to be able to flap. This was 2021ish? So before the current stupidity.
Also, it’s easy to feel like this is all being pushed by parents who just straight up refuse to properly parent their children…but it’s mostly being championed by Puritan lobby/pressure groups. They think even totally consensual, CIS/HET amateur porn is disgusting and sinful. They don’t want to see, so they’re on a mission to make it so literally no one can see it.
With help from companies and people who have a vested interest in creating a panopticon-esque surveillance state. And the rest of the people involved in passing it are too old or ignorant or paid too well by the other two groups to stand in the way of it, or to have cut out the really egregious shit from these bills before they were passed.
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
No, its being pushed by corporations who are interested in identifying you. They pressure the government who ALSO now takes an interest in tracking your for wrong think and power grabbing.
Parents are just pawns who get manipulated into thinking this is a problem at all.
Sturgist@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
First sentence of the last paragraph.
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
Yeah but its not with the help of. It is directly BY them.