cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/2168303
Archived version: https://archive.ph/1rtQu
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20230901022438/https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/pornhubs-texas-age-verification-law-violates-first-amendment-ruling-1235709902/
While I agree with most of what you said, I disagree that it’s a good thing for a government malware to be mandatory on everyone’s PC. Because soon the software alone isn’t enough, it needs to be flexible to every counties own law, with extra sniffing features and they’ll enforce that, I guarantee you, then uddenly we opened the devil’s doors.
Where are we talking about installing malware? This could be implemented by the os itself, like many other similar things in the last years as well (password storage, covid nearby activity, …). The os could just ask the user to verify his age by identity card or similar, would then store a flag after verification and a browser -> website can access this.
The only problem I see with this, if there is no verification on the other side, you could “just” have a browser which tells the website that the user is adult, no matter what, or, if it’s more dedicated, could even use a modified version of Linux to always have the flag set, haha.
Or just idk monitor your kids browsing if you wanna be a snooping parent. Leave me the fuck alone with this policy nonsense.
Exactly. It’s gonna find ways around anyway.
Yeah I really don’t want to be scanning my ID card on my device to do anything like this.
Slippery slope to it storing my name, address, birthdate, eventually sharing those things as well