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Re:Age verification is incompatible with the internet by throwaway8877 on Friday January 05, 2024 @08:06PM (#38887213)
If every person can be identified uniquely and mapped to a real person, and this is what age verification will come down to, then each of us can be fed with different kind of bullshit, our thoughts can be even more easily manipulated systematically. That is the price to pay.
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Re:Age verification is incompatible with the internet by texas2toss on Friday January 05, 2024 @08:09PM (#38887234)
It is moving towards proof of uniqueness + age assurance. Eg: confidence score you are human + confidence score you are over X age.
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Re:Age verification is incompatible with the internet by Erratic6576 on Saturday January 06, 2024 @02:55AM (#38889440)
We can also get automated real life punishments if our opinions threaten the perfection of our state quo
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Re:Age verification is incompatible with the internet by _Parfait_ on Saturday January 06, 2024 @02:52PM (#38894750)
And what's happening now?
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Re:Age verification is incompatible with the internet by zen928 on Saturday January 06, 2024 @07:56PM (#38897232)
People like you having the certainty your freedom to casually engage in these types of topics that may be critical of powerful entities won't result in a form of specific targeting that gives a legally accepted pathway to finding out your private information. Or something.
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