Matthew GreenThe move to add “age verification” to websites at the state level is pretty worrying, and is functionally pretty close to a complete ban on certain sites.
There’s a world where phone manufacturers store your ID and generate fancy zero-knowledge proofs to satisfy age verification requirements, but I’m not convinced putting Apple and Google in charge of more important things is the way our society should go.
I don’t think these bans are going to take porn off the Internet (lol) but I’m worried about what these laws get used for *after* they’re tested and allowed by the courts. I think that’s going to be very unpleasant.
Viss@matthew_d_green i predicted a long time ago that stuff like this and other "dumb bullshit imposed by people with zero technical chops" is going to end up forcing "most of the internet" underground, and i figured a tor-like system would exist for "any internet accessible stuff that isnt giant social media or corporate entities" and it would act like a grey market. opaque and nearly impossible to 'do enforcement on'.
then our dystopian future will be complete.