Age verification proposals are often presented as a simple tradeoff: sacrifice a little privacy to better safeguard children online. But that framing overlooks a more fundamental question. What happens to people who cannot verify their age at all?

Age verification proposals are often presented as a simple tradeoff: sacrifice a little privacy to better safeguard children online. But that framing overlooks a more fundamental question. What happens to people who cannot verify their age at all? This is particularly a problem when users are required to prove their age with identity documents.

  • Miller@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    11 days ago

    What our glorious ill informed leaders do not seem to have realised as yet is that it will apply to them too. So everything they look at online will be linked to their actual identity and is thereby more easily discerned, to be spewed all over the internet when the time is right. Or maybe that is the point, delivery of prosecution or blackmail in neater and more convenient packages.

        • Cheebus@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          11 days ago

          billionaires don’t even pay taxes lol

          this is and always will be “rules for thee but not for me” type shit

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      11 days ago

      t will apply to them too.

      No it won’t. That’s not how The Network State functions.

      You have a very clearly designated In-Group and Out-Group. Just stay in the In-Group and you’ll be fine.

      You’re not going to beat segregation by telling a bunch of coked up white boys “One day you won’t be allowed to drink from a water fountain”. Everyone knows that’s not true. That’s not how these barriers function.