There are a lot of GOP-controller legislatures in the USA pushing through so-called “child protection” laws, but there’s a toll in the form of impacting people’s rights and data privacy. Most of these bills involve requiring adults to upload a copy of their photo ID.

    • AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      11 months ago

      There technically is, but it’s going to be a while until the government is ok with it. It’s called zero knowledge cryptography, where a user could prove they have an identification that is government issued, and that they are of age, without revealing any other information.

      • darth_helmet@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        11 months ago

        There’s a vanishingly small chance that the government wouldn’t fuck that up. Here is what would happen:

        • bill gets signed
        • no bid contract is assigned to a technology firm with a history of incompetence at everything other than lobbying for billions of dollars
        • 3-letter agencies secretly inject back door stipulations into the system so that they can keep spying on everyone
        • years late and at double the budget, it releases
        • two months later, someone shows off the secret backdoor keys at DEFCON, along with instructions on how to dump the access database
        • years of extortion material for spy agencies and organized crime around the world
        • zero children protected: they learn an ancient technology called “torrenting”
        • new calls for even more draconian control of information to save the children from sexy terrorists
    • sbv@sh.itjust.works
      513·
      11 months ago

      If the government really wanted to, it could provide citizens with a portal that would do oauth (or something similar) to authorize the porn access.

      They could do some crypto crap to avoid storing anything about the citizen, so, unless the system is subborned, it doesn’t store anything about users.

      EDIT: the point is that this kind of system can be implemented in a privacy-preserving manner. I’m ambivalent about the idea, but it has been enacted by a democratically elected government, so they should go about it in the most responsible manner possible.

      • CAPSLOCKFTW@lemmy.ml
        13·
        11 months ago

        I disagree. I could literally put some porn in this very comment. So the fediverse needs a porn barrier, and every file hoster, we can’t allow TOR, there is porn, and illegal porn as well. So please show us your id before entering TOR, pls.

        It is an authoritarian move. It is undermining privacy. It is censoring the web.

        It is parents and maybe schools responsabilty to teach kids how to interact with media, that porn exists and is not an actual representation of sex, and to restrict their access to pornography or media in general.

        Furthermore, on planet earth, there are no perfect democracies, and the democratic system of the USA is flawed to a degree where it is at least questionable if your leaders are elected democratically.