Oh and by the way, these age verification things are pure bullshit. This is Go.cam - the leading "open source" one people are talking about. I thought I'd have to employ some AI image generation stuff to spoof it. That was... overly optimistic about their capabilities.
"Highly Effective Age Assurance" they said.
Honestly, fuck all the people pushing this.
Fuck the hand-wringing apologists who know better but employed a "it'll be alright on the night" attitude when we had a chance to stop it.
Fuck the snake-oil salesmen who are pushing "solutions" like this one.
Fuck Ofcom and their "what government wants, government gets" attitude - if you think it's a mistake, fight it, or resign instead of being complicit in ushering in censorship.
Fuck the idiots who think it'll stop here.
I don't quite understand what you think would be a better solution. Would you rather they not even attempt age verification and make it way more trivial for minors to access those spaces..? Or are you trying to advocate for something with even stronger authentication like https://ageverification.dev/ for example (relies on EU national ID systems auth instead)?
Like, sure, current solutions suck, but I've got nothing better to recommend.
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