If this doesnt make people stop using those sites, nothing will. :)

And yeah, like others have said, its of course a system that will be used to control people and remove semi-anonymity from the web.

Yeah, I will never show my ID to a fucking porn site, get real

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Only websites hosted by landlubbers are bound by such laws.

Here come more spikes in VPN usage.

I'm not against proper age verifications as such, it would be like carding people in a store or a bar. But I just haven't seen an implementation of it that isn't prone to being a privacy nightmare and surveillance state shit.

I know there's some systems that generate a token that verify that you are 18 and you give that to the site, so neither side directly meet so to say. The site knows only that you have a valid token for being 18 and the app or service you use to generate the token knows just that you wanted to token for something. I think Spain was figuring out a system like that.

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I would like to dispute the primary supposition here that pornography is harmful. The use of pornography is nearly universal, and most of the harms that it supposedly causes are symptoms of other issues, or are invented to impose control of sexuality. The ability to reach out with the power of the law to impose religious edicts or project sexual hangups is one of the most esoteric, yet effective, forms of political control available other than violence. If you can control the way that people express their sexuality, you can probably also control their views through the monetization and restriction of sex.

Sexuality and privacy are human rights, and the creation of and access to pornography is protected by the first and fourth amendments under which so-called “age verification” is an unnecessary and excessive burden. If the idea is to prevent access to children, ask yourself why now all adults must now have their access prevented or interrupted.

Furthermore, it is not the state’s role to control childhood sexual development, and the idea that porn is harmful to minors is debatable at best and dubious at worst. Access to objectionable material is solely at the discretion of parents. The fact that they cannot effectively manage this is a symptom of another problem.

When Meta shows teenage girls makeup ads after they delete their selfies, or streaming apps are flooded with violent movies that are easily accessible to minors, this is acceptable. But when I want to watch porn it’s now my job to “protect minors” by compromising my privacy and security?

The real “danger” here is the availability of ideas that do not align with state power.

bless their repressed hearts

I’m sure they’ll be getting a lot of photos with abnormally long noses and saggy, wrinkled, hairy chins.

It's only a matter of time before a data leak happens.

That'll be a fun day.

Oh yes, please treat on me daddy. I was a bad snek.

Children browsing the ugliest part of the dark web in 3... 2... 1...

When I went on vaca a few months ago I was caught off guard with this. Kind of crazy that this is going to be everywhere probably... I will never give them this info, there are always alternatives. I just used VPN that week which worked fine.

I suppose dvd order porn will become a thing once again.

Or alternatively we can start sharing bootleg USBs with our friends.

The Internet had begun its enshitification stage, as governments look to control and lock down access to the internet people will find new and creative ways to bypass these barriers. For one, things like Tor or going back to DVDs and physical media might get more main stream.

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I understand the sentiment and what they are trying to accomplish. But the reality is this will encourage people to move to pirating content instead.

Maybe they think they're requiring verification, but they underestimate the Internet