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?
Also, from my understanding, OSA in the UK requires ID for any site where people can talk and share videos and photos with each other. Urban Dead shut down because of it. I’m pretty sure the Fediverse servers running there are concerned about it. I’m curious to hear how they’ve been dealing with it?
And Texas and other many other states are planning to implement similar laws to OSA. Even with just the current laws, Texans can’t even access many porn sites because they just flat out block IPs from there to avoid any possible problems at all.
This carpet bombing strategy to protect the kids is going to destroy the Internet of old. Only major corporations with a team of lawyers and a war chest to deal with corporate-sized fines will be able to start a forum. And to protect their investment they will convince the government and the people that the Fediverse is dangerous. “The Pedoverse is where pedophiles, terrorists, racists, and other ‘mah freedomz’ freaks hang out. The only safe place to be is at Walmart Social Network. See plans starting at $9.99 a month*”
Okay how do you define porn? And would you host a forum that’s not porn but has to do with sex? Would you be willing to host it without an ID check risking fines and police visits?
you can still access and participate in almost all non-porn forums without ID
stop lying
Porn has always been the canary in the coal mine.
Also, from my understanding, OSA in the UK requires ID for any site where people can talk and share videos and photos with each other. Urban Dead shut down because of it. I’m pretty sure the Fediverse servers running there are concerned about it. I’m curious to hear how they’ve been dealing with it?
And Texas and other many other states are planning to implement similar laws to OSA. Even with just the current laws, Texans can’t even access many porn sites because they just flat out block IPs from there to avoid any possible problems at all.
This carpet bombing strategy to protect the kids is going to destroy the Internet of old. Only major corporations with a team of lawyers and a war chest to deal with corporate-sized fines will be able to start a forum. And to protect their investment they will convince the government and the people that the Fediverse is dangerous. “The Pedoverse is where pedophiles, terrorists, racists, and other ‘mah freedomz’ freaks hang out. The only safe place to be is at Walmart Social Network. See plans starting at $9.99 a month*”
Okay how do you define porn? And would you host a forum that’s not porn but has to do with sex? Would you be willing to host it without an ID check risking fines and police visits?