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Thomas Fricke (he/his)Age verification in social media is just the beginning. We have to fight against identification with teeth and claws.
"Colorado Lawmakers Push for Age Verification at the Operating System Level"
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I disagree
Decades of treating the web as an unregulated everyone online free-for-all have proven to been deeply corrosive to many factors of society (democracy, crime, youth, cohesion, etc)
It is past time the long established product safety rules in IRL applied online - and that requires age verification in some cases
What we need to fight is the consolidation of more power in the hands of the greedy. Unaccountable techbros are the problem, not the concept of regulation
Ingo Becker@thomasfricke The thing is, for chatcontrol that actually works, you have to take away the users control over their devices. Otherwise it's hard to enforce it. You have to make it illegal to use custom(ized) devices otherwise people can circumvent it. You also have to make it illegal to use software that doesn't adhere to age-/chat control. I don't think there is a technical solution to this.
Nazani@thomasfricke My particular fear is theft & sale of biometric ID.
ohir@thomasfricke
> Age verification in social media is just the beginning. We have to fight against identification with teeth and claws.
Age verification needs not to be identification. Just agever is used as a new smoke screen to get at identification goal.
The "protect children" trope does not work anymore, as the official US government position is now that "children are made for pleasure of our ruling class".
Adam Jurkiewicz@thomasfricke I see it in Linux ;-)
havchr@thomasfricke @greger I think identification and proof of personhood is something we need as AI is flooding our internet - but, it can and must be done in privacy preserving ways - and decentralized so not one giant server can be breached. The first person project is interesting in this regards.