Papers please: for millions of Americans, accessing online pornography now requires a government ID. It could have global implications for the future of the web.
  • Kiernian@lemmy.worldEnglish
    48·
    8 months ago

    For those wondering about the upswing here:

    If the age verification movement goes unchecked, it’s possible that you could be forced to tie your government ID to much of your online activity, Gillmor says. Some civil rights groups fear it could usher in a new era of state and corporate surveillance that would transform our online behaviour.

    “This is the canary in the coalmine, it isn’t just about porn,” says Evan Greer, director of Fight for the Future, a digital rights advocacy group. Greer says age verification laws are a thinly veiled ploy to impose censorship across the web. A host of campaigners warn that these measures could be used to limit access not just to pornography, but to art, literature and basic facts about sex education and LGBTQ+ life.

    • Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      8 months ago

      I’m going to link my ID and look up the most mind blowingly vile, while remaining legal, porn. If they want to talk to me about it, then I am going to make them describe each video before I “remember” what I saw, after which point I will refuse to acknowledge it as porn.

      Sure, it’s dumb, but it’s fun dumb.

  • RustyNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
    151·
    8 months ago

    Why are they even in war against porn?

    /j lust is just the second layer, try doing something about worse stuff like greed or gluttony

    • Obinice@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      8 months ago

      Religious extremists that work tirelessly to impose their god’s laws on everybody else.

      They’ve actually embedded themselves in US government now, over many years and much effort, and the burning embers of their religious war against the rest of us are finally starting to catch fire in a big way.

      They recently took away a person’s right to an abortion. Madness, I know. What will they take away next?

    • TipRing@lemmy.worldEnglish
      32·
      8 months ago

      Because they want to use antiporn laws to restrict books and other media with LGBTQ content.

    • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      8 months ago

      Why are they even in war against porn?

      First time that I heard that, and I really don’t think it’s a real war. Maybe a tiny quarrel :)

      • forrgott@lemm.eeEnglish
        32·
        8 months ago

        Well, they’re the ones that know which pizza shops have pedophile sex dungeons hidden underneath. So, I guess they’re fighting themselves. (As I typed that out, it occurred to me how true is a statement it was…😝)

  • MehBlah@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    8 months ago

    Not Americans in the sense I see it. Flag pissing regressives is what they are. A minority that gerrymanders their way into power and pushes their childish backward thinking on the real Americans. Many the rot in their closets from which they only emerge every four years to crash grinder.

      • MehBlah@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        Sure that works as well but I myself prefer regressives. It speaks to their mindset that they want to take the country back to some imagined golden age. Where men were men and women were chattel. Where brown folks were not equals and it was okay to attack anyone who wasn’t them without fear of consequences.

    • rottingleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      8 months ago

      It’s not childish. This is just the appearance because people are not afraid of “stupid” politicians as much as they should be.

      In fact all these changes are consistent and all in one direction.

      Information is power, and all these actions create a system where you can’t avoid being identified and visible in everything you do. Then the people in power, if you somehow threaten that power, may assure that you won’t anymore without any open repression, without jailing you or murdering you or even censoring you. You just won’t get anywhere near visibility or power to affect the world, and it will all seem pretty natural and chaotic, so you won’t even see your path being corrected so that you wouldn’t affect politics.