FreedomAdvocate
@FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au
- Comment on Supreme Court (SCOTUS) upholds a Texas law that requires porn websites to verify that their visitors are 18 or older, rejecting a First Amendment challenge to the law 15 hours ago:
The government already has access to what sites you visit btw. They already know if you’re a big booty fan or a gagging kinda guy. They’ve got their fingers in every ISP
I think that a few independent secure age verification services will pop up soon enough. Wouldn’t surprise me if the parent company of pornhub or one of those sites makes it themselves. There’s huge money to be made in it.
Hell I might start asking around with my lawyer friends to see what would be required. Could knock it out in a weekend. The hardest part would be finding the consequences/legal issues of verifying based on fake documents.
- Comment on Why does it feel like protesting isn't as "extreme" as it used to be? 16 hours ago:
Just go sign up for any of the activist organisations that advertise it:
torontosun.com/…/kinsella-protesters-paid-to-take…
Did you really think that the protests that are 90% pensioners holding all the same print signs and chanting the same thing, often reading from their printouts they were given, were organic?
- Comment on Why does it feel like protesting isn't as "extreme" as it used to be? 19 hours ago:
The things people are protesting against now are pathetically trivial compared to the things those people protested, that’s why.
They’re more just a bunch of people don’t like something, or are against something that they think is happening when it actually isn’t (or is at least a 50/50 issue).
There’s also the fact that most of the protesters these days are just virtue signallers, or are rent-a-protest paid protesters who couldn’t care less.
- Comment on Supreme Court (SCOTUS) upholds a Texas law that requires porn websites to verify that their visitors are 18 or older, rejecting a First Amendment challenge to the law 19 hours ago:
Would be incredibly easy to make secure, as it wouldn’t even need to store the verification documents or anything personally identifiable once your account is set up.
I think if the government is actually serious about doing this they will need to do it, or outsource it to someone who will. I don’t actually think these laws will take effect in December.
- Comment on Supreme Court (SCOTUS) upholds a Texas law that requires porn websites to verify that their visitors are 18 or older, rejecting a First Amendment challenge to the law 19 hours ago:
I’d love to hear from the 3 downvotes on why they downvoted me here lol. Do they think that pornhub does have age verification and restricts those who haven’t verified their age?
- Comment on Supreme Court (SCOTUS) upholds a Texas law that requires porn websites to verify that their visitors are 18 or older, rejecting a First Amendment challenge to the law 19 hours ago:
YouTube absolutely has age restricted content, what are you talking about?
support.google.com/youtube/answer/2802167?hl=en
Age-restricted content
Sometimes content doesn’t violate our Community Guidelines, but it may be incompatible with YouTube’s Terms of Service or not appropriate for viewers under 18. In these cases, we may place an age-restriction on the video. This policy applies to videos, video descriptions, custom thumbnails, live streams, and any other YouTube product or feature.
You think I’m authoritarian? You could not be more incorrect if you tried lol. I think parents should be more responsible for the content their kids consume and what they do - but I also believe that age restrictions on content should exist to prevent access when even the best of parents can’t be there to stop it. I’m one of the few people on Lemmy who actually argues FOR free speech and less censorship lol
- Comment on Supreme Court (SCOTUS) upholds a Texas law that requires porn websites to verify that their visitors are 18 or older, rejecting a First Amendment challenge to the law 19 hours ago:
There’s no point. Someone that posts what you did isn’t going to listen and admit they were wrong, so I’m not being drawn into a shouting match :)
- Comment on Why was file search much faster in Windows XP than in subsequent versions? 19 hours ago:
The difference isn’t significant in this situation. You’re acting like HDDs are floppy disks lol. Their random IO is not “pretty terrible”.
- Comment on Supreme Court (SCOTUS) upholds a Texas law that requires porn websites to verify that their visitors are 18 or older, rejecting a First Amendment challenge to the law 19 hours ago:
By verifying with a central age verification system.
What has been thrown around, and what should hopefully be the solution, is that a government agency (as a last resort) or a independent trusted authority makes a system where you create an account and verify your age with your documents with them. Then they have public APIs for sites to hit - you give the site a unique key (preferably you would generate individual keys that are tied to your account for every site) and all that site does is hit that API going “Is the person that this key belongs to 18+?”, and the response is yes or no.
Simple, secure, private. The site you’re accessing doesn’t know who you are and doesn’t get your details. The age verification site also doesn’t necessarily know the site you were using, and this should not be logged either.
- Comment on Supreme Court (SCOTUS) upholds a Texas law that requires porn websites to verify that their visitors are 18 or older, rejecting a First Amendment challenge to the law 21 hours ago:
It doesn’t exist, but that is what some are suggesting and hoping is going to be made with these laws being passed. It would be a really good thing for the internet and websites/apps as a whole tbh if a system like this is made, and it’s not like it would be difficult.
The sites wouldnt need your information, they would just verify that the person attempting to access the site is authenticated as being 18+.
- Comment on Why was file search much faster in Windows XP than in subsequent versions? 22 hours ago:
Again - there’s no significant real world difference between an SSD and a HDD in the scenario I’m describing. Neither drive types are the limiting factor in speed of the operation.
- Comment on Supreme Court (SCOTUS) upholds a Texas law that requires porn websites to verify that their visitors are 18 or older, rejecting a First Amendment challenge to the law 22 hours ago:
No, it’s not just a scale problem, but to even suggest that kids looking at graphic violence videos on YouTube etc is as prevalent as or as big of an issue as kids looking at porn is absurd. There are studies galore linking the consumption of porn in children to all sorts of behavioural issue, and studies showing that it’s increasing dramatically.
I have nothing against porn, I don’t think it should be censored or banned or anything - but age restrictions done properly (ie securely and privately) are long overdue.
And before you say it - yes, I think the same should apply to other not-suitable-for-kids content like extreme violence, vulgarity, etc.
- Comment on Supreme Court (SCOTUS) upholds a Texas law that requires porn websites to verify that their visitors are 18 or older, rejecting a First Amendment challenge to the law 23 hours ago:
Did you just add punctuation incorrectly in an attempt to prove your intelligence/downplay mine?
- Comment on Why was file search much faster in Windows XP than in subsequent versions? 1 day ago:
Still no sources. Interesting.
- Comment on Supreme Court (SCOTUS) upholds a Texas law that requires porn websites to verify that their visitors are 18 or older, rejecting a First Amendment challenge to the law 1 day ago:
Warning yes, restrictions no.
- Comment on Supreme Court (SCOTUS) upholds a Texas law that requires porn websites to verify that their visitors are 18 or older, rejecting a First Amendment challenge to the law 1 day ago:
Look at the topic we’re in, you absolute pencil. It’s about age restrictions for content. Did you think this was just about banning porn rather than age restricting it?
I pointed out that violent content is already age restricted. You thought that was “moving the goal posts”. You seem like someone that constantly cites things like fallacies that you don’t actually understand, like in this instance, to try and sound smart. Wanna try the slippery slope one next? Maybe chuck a few paradoxes in there for good measure?
- Comment on Supreme Court (SCOTUS) upholds a Texas law that requires porn websites to verify that their visitors are 18 or older, rejecting a First Amendment challenge to the law 1 day ago:
Im sorry but no amount of text descriptions of gore or extreme violence can even remotely compare to photos or video of said gore or violence. Ever.
Thinking it can demonstrates a lack of intelligence.
- Comment on Why was file search much faster in Windows XP than in subsequent versions? 1 day ago:
I love the “you’re wrong and if you disagree provide sources” while not providing any sources yourself lol. Amazing.
- Comment on Supreme Court (SCOTUS) upholds a Texas law that requires porn websites to verify that their visitors are 18 or older, rejecting a First Amendment challenge to the law 1 day ago:
And also huge lols at saying porn is just nudity and sexuality
- Comment on Supreme Court (SCOTUS) upholds a Texas law that requires porn websites to verify that their visitors are 18 or older, rejecting a First Amendment challenge to the law 1 day ago:
How do you figure? The argument is that porn shouldn’t have age restrictions cause violence on tv and streaming media doesn’t…….but I pointed out that they does have age restrictions.
How is that “changing the sport”? What did you think we were discussing?
- Comment on Supreme Court (SCOTUS) upholds a Texas law that requires porn websites to verify that their visitors are 18 or older, rejecting a First Amendment challenge to the law 1 day ago:
All have age warnings and restrictions.
- Comment on Supreme Court (SCOTUS) upholds a Texas law that requires porn websites to verify that their visitors are 18 or older, rejecting a First Amendment challenge to the law 1 day ago:
Those all have age rating systems in place lol.
- Comment on Supreme Court (SCOTUS) upholds a Texas law that requires porn websites to verify that their visitors are 18 or older, rejecting a First Amendment challenge to the law 1 day ago:
You think reading that would make me feel the same as watching a video of that happening to someone?
- Comment on Why was file search much faster in Windows XP than in subsequent versions? 1 day ago:
Not really in terms of reading a massive amount of tiny files.
- Comment on Supreme Court (SCOTUS) upholds a Texas law that requires porn websites to verify that their visitors are 18 or older, rejecting a First Amendment challenge to the law 1 day ago:
Putting it in the same perspective as the number that access porn.
- Comment on Supreme Court (SCOTUS) upholds a Texas law that requires porn websites to verify that their visitors are 18 or older, rejecting a First Amendment challenge to the law 1 day ago:
No, words don’t count as graphic violence lol. Graphic violence is defined as being in visual media, not written.
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 1 day ago:
You can’t even admit that losing something of yours is your own fault lol. We’re not going to get anything of value from you on this.
- Comment on Why was file search much faster in Windows XP than in subsequent versions? 1 day ago:
For one, chances are your HDD size was significantly smaller than your current one.
- Comment on Microsoft sued by authors over use of books in AI training 1 day ago:
Paywalled.
- Comment on If you have cut off mainstream music streaming, how do you discover new music or artists and songs like what you're listening frequently? 1 day ago:
Triple J is great if all you want to hear is the newest terrible pretentious Australian indie band, but terrible for anything else.