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Pornhub Sues Texas Over Age Verification Law (www.vice.com)
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[–] 70 points 3 years ago (4 children)

I think a lot of these states are going about this wrong. We should be helping parents restrict access for their children rather than trying to verify identities of adults who likely want to remain anonymous.

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  • [–] 86 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I am pretty sure these laws have nothing to do with "protecting children"

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  • [–] 22 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    It's the same rhetoric that the UK government are using to get a backdoor on messaging apps with E2EE.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    The UK is trying to get the age verification for porn thing going as well.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    They've been trying for years and never get anywhere.

    They face an issue that introducing age verification requires an ID system and whilst age verification polls well (as did earlier silly ideas like a watershed for the internet . Unfortunately, timezones exist..) ID verification polls extremely badly

    So I suspect trying and failing is their holding position where they satisfy both.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    Yeah, anytime you see somebody making the "think of the children!" argument, look at what the possible end goal could be with that removed. Protecting kids is a favorite smokescreen because kids can't speak up for themselves in these cases.

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  • [–] [S] 22 points 3 years ago

    Yeah I think that's the proper route. Parents who want to restrict what their children see need to take responsibility for doing so and not try to make the government do it for them at the expense of everyone else's privacy.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    Make a kid safe tld that requires whatever government certification. Done. Now parents, if they choose, can filter all but the kidsafe tld. Trying to instead blacklist is never going to work.

    Whether companies choose to certify and publish there is something those who want this type of thing should provide incentives for.

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