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Re:The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate yo... by onetimeusename on Thursday June 25, 2026 @07:59PM (#48680769)
I don't think they are serious about privacy and even if they were I don't even want to distinguish between "children" and "adults" on the internet. Things seem to have worked fine up to this point, there doesn't appear to be a public demand for age verification, rather some murky corporations/NGOs/agencies pushing for this. I think it's pretty clear there is some other intention besides protecting children that is the goal here.
Re:The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate yo... by skybrian on Thursday June 25, 2026 @08:36PM (#48681018)
We should only need to distinguish devices with parental controls turned on from other devices, and rely on parents to set up the devices accordingly.
Re:The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate yo... by citruscomputing on Friday June 26, 2026 @12:21PM (#48688453)
they want to isolate gay and trans children from other gay and trans people. don't you know, there's social contagion afoot, but if we protect y^Wour children from this inherently sexual (and thus adult) content, we can prevent it. this is enough to make me oppose age verification wholesale. I don't care if there's fancy ZKPs, it's still going to be used to isolate and harm hundreds of thousands of vulnerable trans kids, who are already experiencing astronomically elevated suicide rates over the past few years. they don't need more of this.