jeffwAug 6, 2023

What are your thoughts on restricting children’s access to pornography online?

https://lemmy.world/post/2776882

What are your thoughts on restricting children’s access to pornography online? - Lemmy.world

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.

Show threadbuckykatAug 6, 2023
There’s no way for a government to do it that wouldn’t interfere with adults’ privacy.
Show threadsbvAug 6, 2023

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.

Show threadbuckykatAug 6, 2023
No. Absofuckinglutely not.
Show threadRikudou_SageAug 6, 2023
If the service is open source, I could actually see this working.
Show threadbuckykatAug 6, 2023
No. Open Source does not make violations of freedom somehow okay.
Show threadRikudou_SageAug 6, 2023
I thought it was obvious, but I guess I’m gonna go step-by-step. So, what’s needed to verify if you’re 18? Exactly one thing - a flag telling the other system yes/no! Very privacy friendly, porn site doesn’t know anything else about you. And obviously the auth system shouldn’t log that you verified for a porn site. That’s why it should be open source, so you can trust it.
Show threadAetherielle
If it's private and secure and isn't linked to your identity, we will share it and it will be useless because everyone who shares the same login is the same over-18 person.
If it is in any way linked to your identity, the data is online and a target for breach which will expose said identity.
There is no realistic way to implement this which both actually does anything at all, AND does not require adding attack surface for breaches.
Aug 6, 2023 at 11:32pmWeb
Show threadRikudou_SageAug 6, 2023
Please reread what I wrote. And regarding attack surface, everything you use adds attack surface.
Show threadAetherielleAug 7, 2023
Please reread what I wrote. And regarding everything you use adding attack surface, that is the absolute best argument to not use an additional service such as the aforementioned 3rd party auth.
What are we doing here?