Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone
pupbiru@aussie.zone 4 days agoi agree, but i also think that IF this were something conducted in good faith (it’s not), then the process would be pretty similar: gated access is the easy fix, so you work that out first (like a minimum viable product), and then work on the harder parts later
ryannathans@aussie.zone 4 days ago
If conducted in good faith they would have discussed it with industry like everything else they do and industry would have worked with them to produce a solution that isn’t brain dead
Like zero knowledge proofs for being over 18
pupbiru@aussie.zone 4 days ago
i completely agree, i just don’t think that particular line of reasoning (not taking into account anonymous sites) proves that
if they wanted to do it properly, they’d have a system that integrates with mygovid that sites can integrate with via some oauth-like flow (login with facebook, login with google, etc: but verify with mygov), and the only thing the site gets back is a “yes over 16”
the government has this data; there’s no reason anyone else should see it
of course that’s also assuming the whole concept is a good idea, which is absolutely not… it’s wallpapering over a massive problem whilst solving absolutely nothing and causing issues