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Nope, no blockchain involved.
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Opening up ‘Zero-Knowledge Proof’ technology
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#12This might enable something like Scroll (the pay-to-view without ads network, acquired and destroyed by Twitter) but anonymous.
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Nope, no blockchain involved.
To say this has nothing to do with blockchain is like saying RADAR had nothing to do with war. Yes, people knew Maxwell's equations prior, i.e. "knew the proofs," w.r.t. ZKP but it has only really been developed much later, during the war.
The whole field of zero-knowledge mathematics was, if not non-existent, but certainly marginalised, before the crypto investment has hit the scene; this is facts. Yes, Shamir et al. go back to 90s, but it's a far-cry from zkSNARK, zkVM stuff we have nowadays. It has also popularized many applications, like provable auctions (see kyber[1] library in Go as nice starting point...) and opened the door to homomorphic stuff.
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#14Age assurance will be the gateway to government issued(via corporate proxy) internet usage permits.
And maybe also uniquiness guarantees, so that people can finally stop debating whether the internet is "dead"?
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ZKP can be thought of as a "fancy hash function". It's often puffed up to a mysterious magic level in order to appeal to blockchain audiences, but there's really no magic.
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#16A fun mechanism for guaranteeing privacy of information in competitive multiplayer settings that operate on distributed networks.
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#17Age assurance will be the gateway to government issued(via corporate proxy) internet usage permits.
True, but I'm also not convinced that a ten year old being able to be face to face with hard-core BDSM and incest fetish porn within 40 seconds of opening a web browser is healthy. I don't like this but don't have another solution other than the porn industry self-policing which isn't promising.
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#18Age assurance will be the gateway to government issued(via corporate proxy) internet usage permits.
True, but I'm also not convinced that a ten year old being able to be face to face with hard-core BDSM and incest fetish porn within 40 seconds of opening a web browser is healthy. I don't like this but don't have another solution other than the porn industry self-policing which isn't promising.
Now take an intentionally extreme opposite (as a thought experiment): if we put death penalty to people who participate in distributing or in relaying such content, could all of that be solved without the “internet pass” and IDing your internet history ?
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#19Age assurance will be the gateway to government issued(via corporate proxy) internet usage permits.
Not necessary, Uganda has been levying social media taxes on end-users since 2018 by automatically adding it to your cell phone bill if you access a social media website. About 2.7¢ per day of usage.[1]
Virtually everyone gets their internet from an ISP that is regulated in the country that the user lives in. There are no technical barriers to implementing a permitting system in the United States.
Linking connections to real people is self-enforcing when there is a usage-based tax.
[1] https://www.africanews.com/2018/04/13/uganda-s-social-media-...
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#20Age assurance will be the gateway to government issued(via corporate proxy) internet usage permits.
True, but I'm also not convinced that a ten year old being able to be face to face with hard-core BDSM and incest fetish porn within 40 seconds of opening a web browser is healthy. I don't like this but don't have another solution other than the porn industry self-policing which isn't promising.
Well, you don't have another solution. That doesn't immediately mean that the one presented in the post is the correct one. Far from it.