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The article says “Mississippi and elsewhere”, so I assumed all sorts of bans were fair game for discussion.

As for your second point, I genuinely don’t really care all that much. Take my solution and require platform vendors provide a parental controls API and require websites and apps call it. From there, whether you legally required parents to set up parental controls, you strongly suggest they do it, or you just leave it there as an option doesn’t matter as much. Maybe different places can have different laws.

The important thing is that parents should at least be given the tools necessary to be able to do this.

Ne t’inquiete pas, je suis un dumb-ass la plupart de temps.

Je suis en train de apprendre aussi le français, la même que @grue@lemmy.world.

all towels are blankets? Even hand towels?

It honestly woulda been funnier to clumsily edit the meme in Paint than to sincerely fix it from source.

Voudrai? Will like?

The fact that they haven’t gone for this approach that delivers age verification without disclosing ID, when it’s a common and well known pattern in IT services, very strongly suggests that age verification was never the goal.

I don’t agree. It certainly makes it possible that it isn’t the goal. But I genuinely believe that, at least here in Australia (where our recent age-gating law is not about porn, but about social media platforms, with an age limit of 16), the reason behind the laws being designed as they are is (1) optics: despite what those of us here say, keeping young children off of harmful social media algorithms is very politically popular and they wanted to pass a bill that banned it as quickly as they could. No time for serious discussion about methods. And (2) a complete lack of knowledge. Because they wanted the optics, they passed the bill extremely quickly and without a serious amount of consultation. And I don’t trust that even if they had done consultation, they would have known who is more reliable to listen to, the actual experts and privacy advocates, or the big AI companies with big money promising facial recognition will somehow solve this. Because politicians are, by and large, really fucking stupid at technology.

What is it they say? Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity?

“Kids shouldn’t be driving cars, it isn’t safe!” Yes, but somehow we have made it 100 years without requiring proof of age/license to start the car.

This is sort of my take. There’s a lot of fun to be had in discussing possible technical solutions to the problem. And technical solutions do exist. But they all have some sort of noteworthy downside, including relying on the government to build and maintain this signing server.

But the best solution, IMO, is much more low-tech. Parental controls. Mandate that all browsers and operating systems support a parental control API where apps and websites can request to know if a user is of age. Mandate that adult sites call this API. And put the onus on parents to actually set up parental controls on their children’s devices, with an appropriately strong password that the children cannot break into.

This can be improved even further to lock a single age verification to a single account. Instead of issuing you a generic signed cert, they use blinded signatures to sign a cert that you generate and encrypt, containing the domain name and your username. The govt never sees the site or your username, because it’s encrypted, and the site never sees the document you provided the govt with to prove your age. But you have a cert that can only be used by you to verify your account is of age.

There’s an alternative solution that would enable a person’s browser or device to verify their age based on a govt-signed cert with repeated hashes. This would have the benefit of the government not even knowing how many verifications you had done, because they only provide one cert per person (with longer renewals. The downside of this is that it requires some form of unique multiple-use identifier. In the sample question that’s fine because it’s a passport. IRL it could be something like an email address, or even just your own unique UUID.

Just so you know, Lemmy allows you to edit posts. You can fix the typo in your image too.

On doit apprendre le français (ou l’allemand) pour rechercher le web sans indices Américains? Défi accepté!

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Hey @obey@lemmy.wtf, if you see this…your comments are all set to be in Lithuanian, which means anybody who’s logged in and doesn’t have their account set to say they speak Lithuanian won’t see your comments at all. (I only saw it because this post says “3 comments”, but I could only see 2, which made me curious to go investigate.)

I don’t really understand what this is trying to say, particularly the 9 pm cravings. But we’ve been reading Dracula together recently in !vampires@lemmy.zip, and the text for 9 pm is on her kneck, so I’m assuming it has something to do with a craving for blood.