Age verification proposals are often presented as a simple tradeoff: sacrifice a little privacy to better safeguard children online. But that framing overlooks a more fundamental question. What happens to people who cannot verify their age at all?

Age verification proposals are often presented as a simple tradeoff: sacrifice a little privacy to better safeguard children online. But that framing overlooks a more fundamental question. What happens to people who cannot verify their age at all? This is particularly a problem when users are required to prove their age with identity documents.

  • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    3 days ago

    If it’s hosted on AWS with a centrally accessible backend, it’s not siloed.

    The idea is that you can have access, but there’s a BARRIER to access for very little gain–the messages of a few hundred users at most.

    And if you want to be a dick about it, you can even rate limit to avoid quick and easy data scraping.