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Governments are ruining the internet to protect kids but there is a much better way (www.neowin.net)
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[–] mystik@lemmy.world 10 points 18 hours ago

We've tried this before. In 1997. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_for_Internet_Content_Selection

The push for this form of age verification is to "close the loop" of strong identity between a physical person, and online content access. And unfortunately, all the relevant parties are aligned on this one:

  • Site owners want to prevent non-people AI from accessing their content
  • Authoritarian leaning governments want to track and control who gets access to what, and who can even make content available in the first place
  • Ad Companies want to make sure ads are being served to real people
  • Operating system vendors can kill open source by ensuring this is mandated at the OS level, in a non-bypassable way, so signed/TPM/closed source nonsense.
  • Parents who don't understand the technology enabling this but believe that this 'protects the kids' will also support it.