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Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn (www.404media.co)
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As of this week, half of the states in the U.S. are under restrictive age verification laws that require adults to hand over their biometric and personal identification to access legal porn.

Missouri became the 25th state to enact its own age verification law on Sunday. As it’s done in multiple other states, Pornhub and its network of sister sites—some of the largest adult content platforms in the world—pulled service in Missouri, replacing their homepages with a video of performer Cherie DeVille speaking about the privacy risks and chilling effects of age verification.

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[–] Saapas@piefed.zip 53 points 3 days ago (27 children)

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.

[–] DempstersBox@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

I'm 1000% against this age verification bullshit, not only because of the privacy and data reasons, but also because getting carded in a bar or at a store is also bullshit.

It Is Papers, please.

It's Never a question of if you're old enough, it's a question of "Do I think you're human enough?"

And more often than is reasonable, the answer is no, they don't think you're a person, who should be able to spend their money as they like.

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