It's the way they are trying to enforce the law. I 100% agree that children and teens should not be viewing pornographic material, but by requiring ID they're essentially creating a back door for digital ID. first it will just be the vices like porn and video games, but eventually they will tie your internet history to your ID and give you a social credit score. that's what they are really trying to do with these laws.
there is already a network level flag that allows adult content sites to mark themselves as adult content. What should be happening is routers and Internet devices should be blocking this traffic by default, requiring an admin to go in and disable the filter in order to view the content. this creates adult internet access points and safe internet access points, thus eliminating the need to personally identify oneself and allowing anonymous browsing to continue. this also allows laws to be created that penalize knowingly giving a child access to an adult internet access point.
It's technically quite feasible to issue someone an anonymous "I am over 18" validation method that isn't connected to other ID aspects (name, address, etc).
It's the way they are trying to enforce the law. I 100% agree that children and teens should not be viewing pornographic material, but by requiring ID they're essentially creating a back door for digital ID. first it will just be the vices like porn and video games, but eventually they will tie your internet history to your ID and give you a social credit score. that's what they are really trying to do with these laws.
there is already a network level flag that allows adult content sites to mark themselves as adult content. What should be happening is routers and Internet devices should be blocking this traffic by default, requiring an admin to go in and disable the filter in order to view the content. this creates adult internet access points and safe internet access points, thus eliminating the need to personally identify oneself and allowing anonymous browsing to continue. this also allows laws to be created that penalize knowingly giving a child access to an adult internet access point.
It's technically quite feasible to issue someone an anonymous "I am over 18" validation method that isn't connected to other ID aspects (name, address, etc).