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Re:Inside Pornhub by kodah on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @12:05PM (#30443322)
KYC won't work on anything related to sex work, and most of the people uploading videos to these websites are semi-professionalized to sex work now. KYC doesn't work because sex work is largely illegal in most countries or states/provinces.

> The point is not to build a totalitarian internet with one world government user registration: it's to correlate accountability with scale.

You can already do this with PGP. You'd just need an operator/vendor who values confidentiality but also can handle the overhead of managing identities from a systematic viewpoint.

Re:Inside Pornhub by FDSGSG on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @05:18PM (#30447336)
> KYC doesn't work because sex work is largely illegal in most countries or states/provinces.

There are many forms of sex work, usually only specific forms are illegal.

Re:Inside Pornhub by dragonwriter on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @12:41PM (#30443862)
> KYC doesn't work because sex work is largely illegal in most countries or states/provinces.

So, KYC + legalization.

Re:Inside Pornhub by kodah on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @02:42PM (#30445377)
Good luck getting the latter. America is very prude across the entire political ecosystem.
Re:Inside Pornhub by samhw on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @05:54PM (#30447763)
So, an essentially impossible proposal, which you're proposing because ... why?
Re:Inside Pornhub by etchalon on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @06:58PM (#30448465)
Pornography is protected speech in the US. So the US' KYC laws would be fine.