Technology

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

That'll be a fun day.

Hear me out!

What if parents did their fucking job as they should instead of demanding the state to do it for them, only for it to get hijacked by both

• christofascists wanting to make it illegal to not live a "christian life",
• and corporations wanting to ensure competition will need to pay a shitton of money on age verification AI?

It's probably the FREE STATES OF FREEDOM STATES!

MMMERICAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!! 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉

This is going to expand. The next wave is going to be keeping kids off of social media. That means they will have to be age-verified, which they can't do, because they're kids, and don't have ID. Instead, everyone else will have to be age-verified in order to use the Internet.

Here in Florida, I've already heard one state lawmaker scoffing at any objections, saying it's the same way we keep kids from buying alcohol - by checking EVERYONE'S ID. Now they're going to do it for the Internet. Every movement and post you make on the Internet will be directly tied to your verified identity. That should be perfectly fine, as long as you aren't doing or saying anything wrong, right?

That's because more than half of the country is some combination of evil and/or retarded.

About eight years ago, I moved out of the US to a Third World country but each day it feels less and less like a Third World country.

Pornhub

sister sites

Guys, I've cracked it.

It's not just for porn anymore though. My new phone required it to use certain applications. Facebook requires it to sell on marketplace. As for conversations about it, all of this went to supreme court at least 6 months ago, spoilers, they lost in terms of protecting our privacy. There are days THEY win inside my head & I assume they're recording & adverty within my dreams. you don't even need to be a tin-hat wear crazy to believe things like that anymore.

This may be the real reason r's are losing all of the elections, lol. They are entirely red states.

https://www.axios.com/2025/01/16/adult-website-age-verification-states

I'm just over here in "hellscape" California enjoying the freedom to not have to do this, and I can walk down the street to the weed shop, and my girlfriend still has basic human rights over her own body.

Do any other states, like Texas, need some of our freedom? We've got some to spare.

The most important issue facing the world: Someone might be jerking off in the privacy of their own home.

So much for small government…

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

I just remembered that I'm the guy everyone in my family goes to when they need someone to scan their ID or passport for whatever stupid bullshit.

Guess it's time to sign all my conservative family members up to gay porn websites!

The end game here is to require ID for social media in order to suppress dissent. This is an easy first step due to the longstanding controversy surrounding pornography.

It's all about control.

Everyone who ever submits for age verification will have their information stolen. It is a matter of when, not if.

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.

Land of the free, eh guys?

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.

I don’t get the purpose of this.

People will just start making their own porn in their bathtubs

Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives

But gun control is too hard. smh

half of states does not equal half of americans

Sorry, MAGA. If you want to stroke it to trans porn, you need to show ID.