The Supreme Court on June 27 upheld a Texas law requiring pornographic websites verify users are at least 18, in a case that pitted concerns about protecting minors against worries about violating the First Amendment rights of adults.
The court split 6-3 along ideologically grounds with the three liberal justices dissenting.
Eighteen other, largely conservative states have enacted similar laws in recent years as access toa growing cache of online pornography has exploded and the material has become more graphic.
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We’re a ways off from that, simply because VPNs have too much business utility.
But we’re definitely moving in the direction of “Everyone who uses the internet has to show their ID first” as a means of tracking the bulk of retail web surfing.
I mean, they get your social when you purchase service.
Easy: VPN license. Corporations already don’t like when customers use VPNs to get around their geo locks on content. We’re one lobbying push away from courts broadly interpreting use of a VPN as a malicious violation of DMCA or CFAA.
Wonder if the silver lining is no more trolls hiding behind a username…
You’ll still see plenty of bots
Probably going to see an uprise in things like lorawan or consumer-owned mesh networks.
Most people can/t figure out how to change their password. Those technologies are going to have to get real easy real fast to get somewhere.
I mean “one button” easy.
You used to have to connect to the internet with dial up and give up your phone line. And here we are today.
The time will come.
Yeah, those were the technically savvy groups. (They were by-and-large not technically savvy, but compared to the larger set of users they were.)
The time will come as soon as someone makes it. Make all the choices for them, no options, one button. Go.