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Pornhub and other adult sites sue EU over landmark digital content law
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Digital age verification is only advocated by people who don't know how the internet works. All it's going to do is drive usage away from regulated sites to unregulated ones.
Yeah but the pious get to feel important
basically the only way it would ever remotely work is if countries adopted the south korean method of identy. they have a kssn used for basic identity purposes, and a seperate id for tax/money related purposes. if a country has both as the same ID, it becomes MAJOR liability if a company had leaked the number. having seperate identity and financial numbers removes the financial risk if the identity value was leaked.
although of course, it removes privacy as the government now can track users (e. g how korea tracks children's game playing time online, as a KSSN is required to register to play)
there must be a black market in dead peoples KSSNs, right?
People use their grandparents kssn all the time according to gamer koreans I've spoken with.
Explains how some 102 year old korean keeps fucking my ass in starcraft every week. I thought I was just terrible at it.
people often use other peoples kssns, usually parents or grandparents to bypass the child timer yes. but its a roadblock nonetheless
I remember using one in 2004 to be able to play the Korean WoW demo. I have no idea where I managed to find one.
Many appliations do identity verification: financial platforms, crypto scams, roblox, car sharing platforms... It nowadays takes a couple of minutes and it's done once, associated with your account. I am not saying I agree with the idea of doing it here, but I think that many people wouldn't care to change platform. And if they do, some other platform will grow and eventually will have to do the same.
Yepp, I always wanted to have a login to a porn site verified with my ID and connected to my home address
You forgot the special fanal on your porch that lights up every time you connect per the new site regulations.
In fact I don't personally agree with doing it here, but I mean, there is no other way to do age verification. There are technically ways that can make sure the only data reaching the end customer (the porn site) is a boolean (minor or not), and the identity verification is generally done by another entity, but ultimately yes I agree, I wouldn't do it either and I personally think it's not worth in this case at all (I think proper sex education in school is probably what I would invest on).
There is also another thing to consider though, which is that porn is different from -say- a gambling site (where you have to make identity verification) mostly due to religious/moral stigma on sex. This makes me a little bit conflicted because I would like a society in which sex is freed from stigma and shame, and where "associate yourself with a porn site" is not as bad as it is now. Definitely the age verification is not the way to pursue this objective, but overall this makes me ask questions like "why would I have not a problem doing the same for a gambling site but I would for porn? Does it align with my values or is it coming from cultural pressure I disagree with?
But why does it need age verification in the first place? Any horny teenager will find a way to look at porn, this only makes them seek out less reputable sources.
Besides, when I was that age we didn’t have any of that, and I didn’t degenerate into a weird hypersexual either despite looking at copious amounts.
This is a separate discussion, on which tbh I have not a strong opinion. I can understand the risks of children without proper sexual education consuming porn, but I also understand the pointless nature of trying to block it.