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Conservatives: keep it down! (slrpnk.net)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeeeeah, nope. Seriously, all the ways of age verification suck 'cause age verification itself sucks.

  1. It's unmaintainable for both websites and browsers (there'll always be sites that say "fuck it", and there'll always be people to remove those checks from the browsers);
  2. It gives personal info to the entities that have no business handling it;
  3. [For sites] that would not leak the info: would you like an unsalted md5 with that?

What's the alternative? To not fucking verify the age. I'm really confused how even normies aren't tired of that "protecting the kids" bullshit. Oh, they're worried? How about trying to be a better fucking parent so that their kids don't hesitate to talk to them about stuff or at least setting up parental control software.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Great, your opinion that it sucks is noted, and ignored by the governments. Which is why I've thought about things that could be proposed as actual solutions. Dislike it all you want, they're going to get it one way or another. UK, USA, and Canada are all trying to push legislation that would force porn providers to verify IDs and store their users.

Sorry I wasted my breath with my terrible idea that would only keep your porn history private from the feds. Guess we should just give up and not pitch any other ideas.