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Want to see how hypocritical the conservatives are? Replace the word digital ID with masks or mandate
I don’t trust people to write secure code.
I really don’t trust people who run low-margin, sketchy businesses like porn sites to write secure code.
That’s the issue.
One of the reasons I don’t run my own webserver, or mailserver any more, or Lemmy/Mastodon instance now, is because I don’t want the liabillity of having to deal with content I don’t control. I’m amazed people run these at all, because it’s trivially easy to end up hosting very problematic content and get the attention of government in truly unpleasant ways.
I cannot imagine anyone anywhere in this chain wants the liability of trying to gatekeep content via ID like this. It’s a technical impossibility, and a liability quagmire.
It would be very stupid to set up a system where you have to give the porn site your ID. Better to just have an attestation that this user is over 18 years old.
There even ways to do this without the government knowing which site you visited with zero knowledge cryptography. But that would probably require everyone to get a Yubi key or equivalent, which might be hard to swallow
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Hey, guys, do you pinkie promise to securely track users with no legal standards or requirements in place? This guy will have shocked Pikachu face in 3, 2, 1, …
They know it’s not secure, they’re hoping it will broadly stop (or at the very least, extremely hinder) people from watching porn
Making anything that isn’t missionary position between a married man and woman under the covers with the lights off for the sole purpose of procreation illegal has been a long standing goal of modern conservatives, and they’re currently inching their way there
