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 threadbuckykat
The auth system knows you verified for something. The only way to actually preserve privacy is total anonymity.
Aug 6, 2023 at 11:44pmWeb
Show threadRikudou_SageAug 6, 2023
Nope, it doesn’t. Did you read what I wrote or did you just have a knee-jerk reaction?
Show threadbuckykatAug 7, 2023
It is a basic tautological fact that you cannot verify an identity while keeping that identity private from the verifier.
Show threadRikudou_SageAug 7, 2023
Then you don’t know much about IT. Sure, the verifier must know your identity at the point of identification. Doesn’t mean it has to store any information about what you did. Unless of course you’re worried that the PC itself will magically come to life and do something with the information. In that case you need an entirely different kind of help. Source for my claims: Designing system architecture is literally my job.