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submitted 10 months ago by sik0fewl@kbin.social to c/canada@lemmy.ca

A House of Commons committee is set to study legislation proposed by Independent Sen. Julie Miville-Dechêne that would require Canadians to verify their age to access porn online.

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[-] doylio@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

Governments already have systems to handle citizen IDs. They're not perfect, and fake ones do get created, but they're good enough. All that is needed is to connect that system to a UBI key or other device. Then websites could use cryptographic tools (signatures, ZK-SNARKS, etc) to verify that someone is over 18 without revealing their identity

[-] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

Yes we have it already in BC, it is useful for proving ID for Provincial services or CRA login. However UBI for general internet also becomes dangerous should the elected government decide they don't want trans kids exposed to trans info, or want to limit access to other news for the population.

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