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EFF launches Age Verification Hub

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Re: EFF launches Age Verification Hub

#61

How are you going to verify the age of someone coming in from another country?

Realistically all but the largest sites are going to contract out age verification to third parties. There will probably be verification companies that will have a wide range of verifications.

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post #59

* for the US Internet. Internet access, even on cafe shop wifi, in India is trace backable to the ID of the user already.

How would internet access in a coffee shop be traced to the specific user?

In Switzerland you are forced to receive an SMS code to your phone on every portal in every public space everywhere to establish your identity on every network. No SMS = No public wifi anywhere in Switzerland.

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post #59

* for the US Internet. Internet access, even on cafe shop wifi, in India is trace backable to the ID of the user already.

How would internet access in a coffee shop be traced to the specific user?

I believe cyber cafes in India must verify identity via ID before allowing internet access and maintain logs, browsing history, etc. for at least one year.

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#64
post #8

I wonder what the psychological effect of having little or no privacy would do to people. Are we all going to be paranoid schizophrenics? How would a world of paranoid schizophrenics work? How insane are world events going to be from that point on?

China is an example of this. Somewhere that, according to the UN's data, executed "undesirable" people with such gusto that it incidentally decreased the organ donor waitlist time so low that it couldn't be explained by any other factor. "Perfect" security is only attainable with zero dissent, zero individuality, zero privacy, and zero freedom.

"Involuntary organ harvesting[3][4][5] was once legal on criminals, but outlawed in 2015"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_transplantation_in_China

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#65
> we must fight back to protect the internet that we know and love.

This is not compelling. The internet I know and love has been dying for a long time for unrelated reasons. The new internet that is replacing that one is an internet that I very much do not love and would be totally ok to see lots of it get harder to access.

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#67

How are you going to verify the age of someone coming in from another country?

Realistically all but the largest sites are going to contract out age verification to third parties. There will probably be verification companies that will have a wide range of verifications.

There already are, and have been for a while. And, yes, of course, they've been involved in lobbying for the requirements.

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#68
post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How would internet access in a coffee shop be traced to the specific user?

In Switzerland you are forced to receive an SMS code to your phone on every portal in every public space everywhere to establish your identity on every network. No SMS = No public wifi anywhere in Switzerland.

That's a funny choice, I thought Europe was done with SMS. I can see this 1-to-1 mapping with other cellphone derived messaging like Whatsapp, etc being an issue for privacy but it's certainly possible to have multiple phones.

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post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How would internet access in a coffee shop be traced to the specific user?

In Switzerland you are forced to receive an SMS code to your phone on every portal in every public space everywhere to establish your identity on every network. No SMS = No public wifi anywhere in Switzerland.

How would an SMS code sent to a phone number be traced to the specific user? Anonymous VOIP numbers are plentiful.

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#70

Why they don't use zero knowledge proof? Also question for the USA constitution experts, is this considered a violation of free speech? The article is not clear on this.

Onlyfans is legal prostitution so we need to protect that. Better to regulate the entire internet with taking your rights than question why it's allowed.
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