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What are your thoughts on restricting children’s access to pornography online? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by jeffw@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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There are a lot of GOP-controller legislatures in the USA pushing through so-called “child protection” laws, but there’s a toll in the form of impacting people’s rights and data privacy. Most of these bills involve requiring adults to upload a copy of their photo ID.

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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean they're already doing that, there's already a handful of states that require porn sites check a user's ID before granting access, that's why I keep reiterating compromise, because it's already happening. And the version they're pushing is we hand over our ID to ever site which then of course would be subpoenable. So, again, I don't know why you're thinking these solutions are the bad ones, the bad ones are already in place and being used, they're just trying to roll it out nationwide now.

And again, I really feel like I keep repeating the same point over and over and over and over and over again, if it's going to happen, which they're really trying to push through and looks like they are going to, a compromise would be to at least have a privacy focused approach.

[–] manpacket@lemmyrs.org 1 points 1 year ago

a handful of states that require porn sites

A handful of states can require that, sure, but requiring is not enough. All the browsers and all the porn sites need to follow that and this is not going to happen

So, again, I don’t know why you’re thinking these solutions are the bad ones

If the goal is to make sure there's age verification for users of some porn sites with some web browsers - yea, you can totally achieve that. A workaround is a) switch the website or b) switch the browser. That's security theater though. Wastes time and money, fails to achieve the goal. If the goal is to make sure age is tested for users of all the porn sites for users of all browsers - this goal cannot be achieved without massive effort.

they’re just trying to roll it out nationwide now.

They have internet with porn in it in other nations :)