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Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn (www.404media.co)
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As of this week, half of the states in the U.S. are under restrictive age verification laws that require adults to hand over their biometric and personal identification to access legal porn.

Missouri became the 25th state to enact its own age verification law on Sunday. As it’s done in multiple other states, Pornhub and its network of sister sites—some of the largest adult content platforms in the world—pulled service in Missouri, replacing their homepages with a video of performer Cherie DeVille speaking about the privacy risks and chilling effects of age verification.

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 24 points 1 day ago (4 children)

This is going to expand. The next wave is going to be keeping kids off of social media. That means they will have to be age-verified, which they can't do, because they're kids, and don't have ID. Instead, everyone else will have to be age-verified in order to use the Internet.

Here in Florida, I've already heard one state lawmaker scoffing at any objections, saying it's the same way we keep kids from buying alcohol - by checking EVERYONE'S ID. Now they're going to do it for the Internet. Every movement and post you make on the Internet will be directly tied to your verified identity. That should be perfectly fine, as long as you aren't doing or saying anything wrong, right?

[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 6 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

it’s the same way we keep kids from buying alcohol - by checking EVERYONE’S ID

Tell him there's a big different between checking an ID and making copies of one

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 21 hours ago

What? You mean explain NUANCE to a MAGA? Their entire political pallette is Black and White, and you want to introduce colors?

[–] bbwolf1111@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My niece is given a iPad from the school with Roblox installed on it. Along with whatever programs they preinstalled for school. I don't think there is any plan to get kids off of social media at all! It's about getting data on everyone else, not actually "the kids".

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 5 points 22 hours ago

Here in Florida, the ENTIRE argument is about passing a law that keeps kids off all Social Media. To do that requires age-verification, but since kids don't have a way to do that, they will age-verify EVERYONE, and kids won't be able to get past that.

And like everything they do, it's a fool-proof system that the MAGAs have designed. Surely no kid will ever learn their parents password, or borrow their Dad's ID for the verification process, etc. If I were a kid, I wouldn't sneak my Dad's wallet in the middle of the night, and take a photo of the front and back of his Drivers Licence for future reference. No kid will ever figure that out, right?

Of course they will. So we're going to surrender our anonymity on the Internet, just so we can implement an extremely flawed system that won't work, but that's OK, because keeping kids off the Internet was never the objective, tracking every single person using the Internet is the real objective.

And people will surrender that basic right, "for the kids."

[–] paperazzi@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

By "wrong," you mean anything against the political party that intends to stay in power permanently, correct?

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 5 points 21 hours ago

Worse, it means anything they want it to mean, at whatever moment they need it. You could be perfectly fine today, and tomorrow be public enemy #1.

Look at the Venezuelans. I have several very close Venezuelan friends, all of whom came to America to escape the brutal Maduro regime. They all arrived illegally, but very quickly hooked up with lawyers, and got documented ASAP, which all previous non-MAGA Administrations were happy to assist with. All eventually became American citizens, and got jobs, some started their own businesses, and they have been active, positive contributors to American society. Even Conservatives were happy about it, because it gave Maduro a black eye.

But today, all Venezuelans are evil gang-members, here to rob, rape, pillage, and eat our pets. Not because they are all those things, but because MAGA simply says they are, and today, these good people are all considered demonized criminals, by the same people who used to be proud of them for resisting Maduro.

You can be the best American today, and be the worst American tomorrow, if MAGA decides that it is politically expedient.