buckykat [none/use name]

Any further expansion of online age verification is bad, even when it targets annoying assholes nobody likes this time.

Also, age verification for adult websites is bad because they’re just going to ban minors from accessing important sexual health education information and track people who look up unapproved content. Oh you want to learn about your gender identity? Sorry kiddo, you aren’t allowed to learn about that. Oh you watch gay porn? Scan your ID so we can put you on a list.

Does an internet real-name system not present all these same problems?

This is a toehold, setting up and testing out the infrastructure. Some states and countries have been doing similar verification schemes with “adult” sites, which has been pretty widely unpopular. The goal here is just continuing to search for acceptable targets for this age verification bullshit.

China’s AI regulations, to my understanding, are an outright ban on “companion” features, rather than age-restricting them, which is much more sensible and justifiable.

Surely this will only be used for AI website and no other kind of web site. It’s not like there’s some kind of wider campaign of age verification and deanonymization or anything