Comment by jaimex2
7 hours ago
No, there's no compromise here. Anyone pushing for age verification or going along with it needs to get replaced by a service that is immune to government overreach.
7 hours ago
No, there's no compromise here. Anyone pushing for age verification or going along with it needs to get replaced by a service that is immune to government overreach.
Some of us do see value in age and identity verification if the anonymity problem is solved so I very much disagree.
Might be vulnerable to classic salami tactics, though. Once we arrive at a general consensus on new norms that expect age verification online, we can just legislate it to ID users as a step 2.
Maybe wait for the next terror-attack before pushing for it, but it's an easy fix to a culture that already accepted a layer control against the user. The end user will only perceive a small difference in whether they provide full ID or just verified age information.
I want to believe that some supporters of age verification are not cynical. However, whatever good can be achieved through age verification seems such a small win, compared to the dangerous precedent it sets for the internet in general. I cannot get my head around it.