Good: some commenters here realize it's an attack on privacy

Bad: some still entertain the idea that we should do age verification using some sort of crypto primitives

There is no reason for age verification at all.

I am from the goatse generation. Rotten.com. steakandcheese. Horrific stuff tbh, I mostly stayed away from it, and I didn't need a helicopter government to protect me from it.

The moment you accept the narrative that kids need to be protected from the Internet you have already lost.

You've already condemned those kids to a life of slavery. So much for protecting them.

What we need is not online verification, but a competent government that does its existing job well.

Who's been arrested over the Epstein files? Who is protecting those kids?

No one.

That same government wants to "protect" your kids by KYCing everyone.

Give me a break.

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traderj0e 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Nah, that already didn't work because corps are very good at creating network effects in children and will set up multi-billion-dollar businesses around them. And then the kids with protective parents become the weird ones in school. I'll die on the hill of curtailing this stuff in a privacy-preserving way.

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gslepak 3 hours ago | parent [-]

> I'll die on the hill of curtailing this stuff in a privacy-preserving way.

At some point you'll realize the contradiction in not trusting these "multi-billion-dollar businesses" to the point that you are risking enslaving humanity and "dying on this hill" and yet at the same time trusting those same businesses to implement this dystopian system in a privacy-preserving way.

When that realization hits, it will be a loud sound, possibly heard by nearby telepaths.

	▲	traderj0e 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That's fine, say hi to the telepaths in advance for me

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mghackerlady 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Right? I especially don't understand where some of the "think of the children" attitude on porn sites, as they for the most part already ask for your age and if you didn't get some kind of amusement out of seeing tits as a teenager you're a liar

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		It's a function of our society becoming more puritan and conservative in the past 10-15 years. This has been a slow burn. We are back to perceiving viewing boobies as an existential threat to people. Currently, sexuality is being demonized all around, and sexual morality is once again becoming a currency in society. I encourage people to talk to some Gen Z kids. They're much more puritan than millennials. They're focused on virginity and the moral superiority of monogamy. It's bizarre.