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this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2025
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This is the exact argument PornHub is using against recent age-limit laws. They want a system where they can’t be breached and expose their users. I’d say this adds credibility to their position.
Just having user agent header based attestation would work for most people.
It would be easy to bypass sure, but kids are boomer levels of tech illiterate these days.
Parents should be setting up content restrictions, the government has no place making us submit ask to view porn.
The failure of parents is not my problem.
The laws aren't about protecting children, though. Only legitimate sites will implement it, and legitimate sites generally aren't the most problematics sites.
The laws are actually designed to allow for the tracking of adults' activity and link them to that activity in a way that is provable in court. Anyone who wants to use the sites for nefarious purposes can just impersonate others and frame them for the use. So, there's no real value in any of it, just a way to get campaign funding. The real solutions would be too expensive to implement and require experts to design who are much more likely to be highly educated and thus unwilling to help a fascist state, so they'll never happen.