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.

  • Ecco the dolphin@lemmy.mlEnglish
    192·
    2 days ago

    Some people do meth.

    You’re only seeing the people who don’t give a single fuck. This won’t affect them, this will affect anonymous posters and people who aren’t even “posting” but are using online communication to talk to other people directly (chat rooms, direct messaging)