If you deleted all your social media and AI platform accounts today you would wake up tomorrow and be no worse off.
Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet?
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Re: Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet?
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Block how? You can block sites now and all it takes is a proxy/vpn to get around it. Nothing short of personalized age verification will work. The best we can do is make sure the age verification system is centralized by the government. The client sites can’t see who you are and the centralized government server should not be able to see the sites you visit. The only way this can go wrong is if the client sites collu…
Whether such a system could be bypassed by a VPN would depend on exactly how the age verification works and whether said government decides to ban the use of VPNs. More importantly, I don't personally have any faith that at least the US government could properly define and build a system that is reliably and provably resistant to tracking. The government has incentives to want to know what sites a person visits, the…
I don’t mean bypass as in get around the verification system I mean bypass as in its one flaw can be mitigated by using a VPN.
Re: Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet?
#63If you deleted all your social media and AI platform accounts today you would wake up tomorrow and be no worse off.
The "First they came for the Communists" logic still holds. When government able to open the flood gate, the mandatory ID check will be slowly and surely be everywhere.
If you don't use social media and AI platform. Fine. But what about app stores, what about any registries from docker, to npm, to apk and toward the end source code repositories like Github/Codeberg?
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#64Just wishful thinking, but I hoped more will move to IRC and GPG emails.
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You can't sign up for a Facebook account without giving a live selfie. Any image of your family you post will be scraped by Clearview AI, bypassing the restrictions that make it hard for you to create accounts, to create a worldwide facial recognition system.
It gets worse. Banks now require pictures of faces to fucking close the account and pull the money out.
You find it to be a negative that banks require identity verification to drain an account? Personally, I would refuse to keep my money with a bank that doesn’t do this.
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#67This is so lame, it seems like a small number of pedophiles have forced us to deal with all this age verification stuff. Porn has always been around (national geographic, anyone), and parents can use screen time to limit access for their children if they want.
i never read a nat geo where a young girls innocence gets destroyed in 4k ultra hd , either way based on the behaviour of our ruling class it seems likely that the pedophiles are the ones instituting these laws
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#68“Introducing age verification is based on the state being able to force social media companies to verify their users’ identities” Users have been doing this themselves without state coercion for twenty years now by putting their real names all over Facebook and all the other socials. Nobody forced them to use their real names and post countless pictures of their faces alongside, and pour out the totality of their wor…
> Nobody forced them to use their real names and post countless pictures of their faces alongside
No? You've obviously never been ostracized from your friends, family, or coworkers due to not using Facebook or Instagram or whatever the latest vapid social network is.
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
It gets worse. Banks now require pictures of faces to fucking close the account and pull the money out.
You find it to be a negative that banks require identity verification to drain an account? Personally, I would refuse to keep my money with a bank that doesn’t do this.
most banks using faceid won't accept you go to a branch. because they contract with a provider who makes more money from building and selling a database than to fulfilling the contract with the banks.