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I get the feeling that privacy advocates like the German CCC or the EFF in the US need to get ahead of this chat control and age verification bullshit by implementing a privacy-first age verification system prototype. Something where you can identify yourself as adult that is both trustworthy and anonymous.
Because if they don't, palantir will implement your age verification and harvest all your data.
You mean like buying anonymous tokens in a supermarket that have an 18+ sales rule on them and you have to show your ID as when you buy booze? It's not like it isn't trivial. It's just that out government fucks want totalitarian control. Fuck them all with a rusty rebar.
Or, like, add a feature to a browser where parents can force an “I am a Child” header in Calls…
That'd work too, although I'd implement it the other way around. Define a new http header that indicates what type of content the site you're visiting is hosting and handle the content blocking client-side based on those headers.
The point is that the internet shouldn't be censored though, we shouldn't be giving corporations or governments the keys to censor the internet based on any protected characteristics (one of which is age), even if it's done in a 'private' manner. What comes next? Sexuality/gender verification? You can only view porn if you're the opposite gender? Race verification?