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melroy@kbin.melroy.org 2 days ago@JohnEdwa also you do understand that you are basically giving all the power to this random individual business that does the ID checks, right?
It's like the current banking system. No thanks.
That means your website can just be rejected by the ID partner and voila you got blocked from the internet. Maybe your website is discussing something that the government doesn't like?
Whatever it is, you basically sell your soul to this ID verification company. And they can reject you from any website in the future for any random reason. And like I said, websites can be rejected as wellr fom this system (it goes both ways).
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
If there is exactly one global service that does all the checks for every single internet user, which every single website uses, and the information going through them is always known, then sure, they could certainly block stuff.
But it’s quite clear by now “we aren’t going to implement age verification on the internet” isn’t going to happen, that verification is going to be implemented eventually, and in the rather near future, and places like the UK and many US states are extremely unlike to roll back the already implemented solutions.
So the question now is how it can be done with the least amount of invasion to privacy.
melroy@kbin.melroy.org 2 days ago
Did you read me message above? You just don't want age verification to begin with.
Your reaction to your government should be: I will not comply. I will not follow this path.
And basically you search for other workarounds or resistance, rather then trying to work with them to a "solution" that doesn't exists.
You can't have privacy and id verification. You can't never have both. It's either one or the other.
If you think it can be done, well done, this is exactly what they want you to be believe. And thinking it's OK what is going on.