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Spain introduces porn passport to stop kids from watching smut (www.politico.eu)

submitted 5 months ago by Salix@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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The Spanish government has a plan to prevent kids from watching porn online: Meet the porn passport.

Officially (and drily) called the Digital Wallet Beta (Cartera Digital Beta), the app Madrid unveiled on Monday would allow internet platforms to check whether a prospective smut-watcher is over 18. Porn-viewers will be asked to use the app to verify their age. Once verified, they'll receive 30 generated “porn credits” with a one-month validity granting them access to adult content. Enthusiasts will be able to request extra credits.

You have to request more porn credits from the government if you need more? Don't want the government to be tracking this data of you. This is a privacy issue

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[–] Emmie@lemm.ee 29 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

At least it will raise tech literacy among youth. If it isn’t as easy and would require some thinking that’s already better than 99% of homework.

[–] istanbullu@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Those kids will install a VPN faster than this bill goes through the Spanish parliament.

[–] Emmie@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Even something as straightforward nowadays as VPN install can educate a person about cybersecurity as a side effect.

Thing is most stuff is simply too easy too acquire nowadays. No effort. No thought. Just endless stream of dopamine that is too addicting to even bother inquiring about how the very thing you are using works.

The victory of convenience will defeat us. There has to be some effort needed to acquire things otherwise they lose any value.

[–] Syntha@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

Only applies to sites who are based in Spain, at least the porn bans in the US went somewhat scorched earth, this limp dicked attempt doesn't even do that.