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Seems to me, there's no real way to age verify people. This is pointless.
Want ID? Kids can just upload a fake one.
The app wants access to your phone's camera, so it can use ai to assess your age? Well I don't know for certain, but I'm 99.9% there's probably a way to trick your phone into using a virtual camera, showing images of a middle-aged man.
What ever method of age verification, someone will figure out a way to trick it, and kids will be onto the trick very quickly.
Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Corporate Internet
There, FTFY
What sucks is that once these laws are in place repealing them will probably never happen. There are far too many people who will benefit financially from this to allow that to happen.
There are far too many people who will benefit financially from this to allow that to happen.
Orly? Can you give me a couple of examples?
I'm opposed to this trend myself, btw. But I just interpreted as a bit of pointless over regulation by a bunch of populist nanny-statists. You're telling me there's financial interests involved as well?
There are companies to store and process IDs on behalf on the sites. Also it will give a hell of a lot more information to marketers who will pay tons for it to sell you crap they think you need. They already have far too much information on everyone already, but this will give them even more.
They're making it so that vigilante justice is the only form of justice the ruling class can receive.
Gotta show me the relevant RFC for BGP first.
Yeah, probably not.
What a failure of an idea.
No it's not, maybe for some mainstream websites. Saying the "whole internet" is clickbait hyperbole.
For some people "the whole internet" is like half a dozen websites.
I worked in tech support. For some people Facebook is the internet
It's the Internet. There are internets, but just one Internet.
The real goal is to eliminate anonymity from the internet.
It’s about control. They can grant you access or revoke it based on your id.
The powers at be hate that they can’t control the narrative as well as they used to so this is their solution.
