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Let's say, for some unexpected idiotic reason, ID age verification becomes widespread for more than just porn. Wouldn't that be the first thing people than start generating via midjourney and similar AIs? Fake ids to pass age checks?
You can't Midjourney a valid matching name and government ID number
Many cryptocurrency websites refuse services country by country, and in the United States case, I saw service restrictions on state by state level. Many financial services (overseas hedge funds) websites refuse access to US persons.
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>> In 2021, Cox signed a law that would require device manufacturers to add adult content filters on all smartphones and tablets sold in Utah. I know this isn't in effect, but won't this hurt only Utah? Just don't sell devices there. People will buy them across the border.
Utah has less people than my city, and produces 0.9% of the national GDP. Anyone attempting to do business there at any scale also quickly realizes that it is not a secular state government and you'll have to bribe/work around the Mormon church.
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I've been developing B2C and B2B sites for 15 years. There's state specific shipping, promotion, pricing, and exclusive service and products in nearly every site I've ever built. IF they do business outside the US at all they will nearly all block Russian and Chinese IPs. Money killed the inclusive open internet sometime around 2008. Apps spit on its grave.
Let's say, for some unexpected idiotic reason, ID age verification becomes widespread for more than just porn. Wouldn't that be the first thing people than start generating via midjourney and similar AIs? Fake ids to pass age checks?
You can't Midjourney a valid matching name and government ID number
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I've been developing B2C and B2B sites for 15 years. There's state specific shipping, promotion, pricing, and exclusive service and products in nearly every site I've ever built. IF they do business outside the US at all they will nearly all block Russian and Chinese IPs. Money killed the inclusive open internet sometime around 2008. Apps spit on its grave.
I understand why you might want to block those specific countries, but in my personal cybersec experience, most of the malicious traffic actually comes from AWS and other big enterprises, mainly because of compromised servers hosted there. So I actually don't know what specifically you get by geo blocking, bad guys will still reach your internet hosted service.