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We're obsessed with kids not seeing bare titties on the web, meanwhile actual violent pedophiles run the country. Really makes you think!
Yeeaahh, given the collective non-response to the Epstein files I suspect kids would be a lot safer if they weren't flagged as minors 
The Anonymize Our Kids Act or A-OK Act will put you in stocks for cabbage tossing practice if you post your kids to anything owned by Zuck and Musk
I don't think it's actually about protecting children. It's about shaming the people who look at pornography by forcing them to shed anonymity. But really it's about shaming themselves because they have a humiliation fetish.
It's not even about that, it's just an excuse to get more data on us. They say it's for protecting kids online because that's the only possible reason most people will agree on, that kids need protection online. But if they actually cared about that or reducing porn watching, they'd have dns blocking at the router level available for families with kids to opt into, have a law saying companies had to include dns blocking settings on the router settings etc. But they don't care about either of these things at all
3 words Active. Shooter. Practice. So f'ed up. God forbid they see a naked body though
we used to have national geographic and maybe you'd find a hustler or penthouse in the woods
Just going to say The People vs Larry Flynt is worth watching.
"hey let's just outlaw linux while we are at it"
BSD: My time to shine!
This might actually be a good idea if it's just something parents can set in parental controls so that websites and apps can check it for parental restrictions.
anything that gives parents more control over their children is a bad idea
Bedtime is tyranny
I’d rather parents be able to block porn on their kid’s ipad than require random third party face scans with the data going god knows where for every user. Kids are smart enough to get around whatever their parents try and do anyways.
Parents are already able to do whatever they want to their children's devices with parental software. What it would allow is for websites and users themselves to flag their content as not suitable for younger viewers, which might be more useful than the ad-hoc and probably more invasive client-side parental controls. It would also be useful in certain online communities where people don't want to be interacting (especially unknowingly) with children.
Anyway, this is all a ridiculous hypothetical because it assumes the reason this is being done is not evil, which is obviously not actually true.
This would be better than the face and/or ID-scan by creepy companies every time you want to access whatever is deemed adult. For one it would be privacy-preserving, they wouldn't know who you are or anything other than something basic like an age range which is the ideal.
The tricky part is implementing it in open source software of course. The best thing to do would be to not require that. If kids are clever enough to install Linux to get around their parental controls then let them. But I doubt that will be acceptable. I suppose my idea would be for some sort of hardware, external or internal that does this task with some sort of cryptographic assurance of integrity and a protocol for web sites and programs on the machine to directly query it.
One issue is I can't see things like Graphene or rooted Androids passing the evaluation here so people owning those would be locked out of certain things while trying to use them unless Google implements and they leave intact some high integrity, high assurance hardware based solution they can't tamper with. But given the way Google is going trying to kill other options and lock down their system with mandatory certificates only through them those things may not have long to live anyways.
I'd rather not budge on this at all but the fact is this is happening. It's happening whether you and I want it or hate it. Many places are doing it in a very privacy invasive way that ties identities to actions, speech, thoughts, history on the web which will be used shortly for censorship, oppression, silencing critics, etc. So the chance to push alternative tech that explicitly prevents that via a design that doesn't involve your identity being stored or sent anywhere, just an age signal is one that shouldn't be passed up by anyone who is an enemy of the liberal western system. Because once that's in place the arguments for passing identity betraying laws are a lot weaker and it takes a lot of wind out of their sails and will build further resentment among normal people if rammed through anyways.
I actually like this idea. Spoofing some age signal from my own device seems a lot easier than trying to trick AI face detection
It's easy to imagine this idea being implemented in a sensible way, but in the United States I can only seeing this being yet another front in the war against owning your own computer and deciding what it does and does not run.
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