Before anyone gets too excited about this because "won't someone please think of the children", remember that government policies never stop where they end. Governments want to be able to track everything single thing you do and "let us spy on you because of DUH CHILDREN" is always their first go-to excuse.
...remember that government policies never stop where they end. Governments want to be able to track everything single thing they do and "let us spy on you because of DUH CHILDREN" is always their first go-to excuse.
Thank you. I thought I was going to have to jump on this and shit talk government age verification, because there are some people here who do let their emotions get the best of them on this issue.
I don't get how anyone can defend it. They'll say things like 'oh, it doesn't affect you, you're not a child.' Wrong. This law gives the government the right to demand identification from you, an adult, before you're allowed to access a website. It's utterly terrifying. Obviously children shouldn't be watching porn, but this is not the way to do it.
My go to example is, they can move it pretty easily to any other currently or future age-gated activity. Guns being a big one. Conceivably, this could slide pretty quickly to stopping people from accessing online gun/militia content. Considering they're trying to push the purchase age up, too, if they ever succeeded, they'd have some level of precedent from stopping legal adults from accessing 2A content.
Handing even more power to the government in regard to the internet is an incredibly retarded idea.
Just having the law creates opportunities for blackmail. Even if you've never visited the porn site, the fact that they are legally required to have a list of everyone who visits makes your addition to that list more credible.
Eventually that database will be leaked as a "perverts database" by "ethical hackers" with sympathies toward feminism. The precedent has already been set with the hacking of the Ashley Madison website.
Before anyone gets too excited about this because "won't someone please think of the children", remember that government policies never stop where they end. Governments want to be able to track everything single thing you do and "let us spy on you because of DUH CHILDREN" is always their first go-to excuse.
Thank you. I thought I was going to have to jump on this and shit talk government age verification, because there are some people here who do let their emotions get the best of them on this issue.
I don't get how anyone can defend it. They'll say things like 'oh, it doesn't affect you, you're not a child.' Wrong. This law gives the government the right to demand identification from you, an adult, before you're allowed to access a website. It's utterly terrifying. Obviously children shouldn't be watching porn, but this is not the way to do it.
My go to example is, they can move it pretty easily to any other currently or future age-gated activity. Guns being a big one. Conceivably, this could slide pretty quickly to stopping people from accessing online gun/militia content. Considering they're trying to push the purchase age up, too, if they ever succeeded, they'd have some level of precedent from stopping legal adults from accessing 2A content.
Handing even more power to the government in regard to the internet is an incredibly retarded idea.
Just having the law creates opportunities for blackmail. Even if you've never visited the porn site, the fact that they are legally required to have a list of everyone who visits makes your addition to that list more credible.
Eventually that database will be leaked as a "perverts database" by "ethical hackers" with sympathies toward feminism. The precedent has already been set with the hacking of the Ashley Madison website.