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What are your thoughts on restricting children’s access to pornography online? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by jeffw@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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There are a lot of GOP-controller legislatures in the USA pushing through so-called “child protection” laws, but there’s a toll in the form of impacting people’s rights and data privacy. Most of these bills involve requiring adults to upload a copy of their photo ID.

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[–] AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There technically is, but it's going to be a while until the government is ok with it. It's called zero knowledge cryptography, where a user could prove they have an identification that is government issued, and that they are of age, without revealing any other information.

[–] darth_helmet@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There’s a vanishingly small chance that the government wouldn’t fuck that up. Here is what would happen:

bill gets signed
no bid contract is assigned to a technology firm with a history of incompetence at everything other than lobbying for billions of dollars
3-letter agencies secretly inject back door stipulations into the system so that they can keep spying on everyone
years late and at double the budget, it releases
two months later, someone shows off the secret backdoor keys at DEFCON, along with instructions on how to dump the access database
years of extortion material for spy agencies and organized crime around the world
zero children protected: they learn an ancient technology called “torrenting”
new calls for even more draconian control of information to save the children from sexy terrorists

[–] AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Internet companies that are forced to take people's personal information could do it at their cost