When you have laws with which it is impossible to comply, you end up with selective enforcement that only punishes the opponents of people in power. Just sayin'.
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@evacide from the article, something a bit more light hearted perhaps:
> [Digital Rights Expert] Lia Holland said [...] that the legislation sounded like “AI slop.”
Now *that's* a usage of the phrase I can get behind 😆
@evacide A hypothesis I haven't tested but think we can assume unless someone wants to do the necessary web archive scraping:
Every porn site that would ever follow "age verification" laws—every site subject to any of the applicable jurisdictions—already had meta tags for adult content before those laws were ever bills. Minimum adequate parenting of "digital native" children—thus minimally adequate implementation of device administrative access and parental controls—would already block every site that would ever comply with the laws.
Therefore (as @404mediaco have also predicted), relative to porn access, the only real effect of such online panopticon laws is to direct people away from sites subject to democratic jurisdictions, which at least attempt to lawfully moderate content, and towards sites outside such jurisdictions, which deliberately distribute CSAM and other sex trafficking and SA content.
Legislatively outsourcing parenting onto the porn sites thus increases harm to everyone such laws claim to seek to protect.
#uspol #surveillance #censorship #idVerification #ageVerification
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So what happens when my vpn endpoint is SLC but I’m in Australia?
@evacide Hmmm. Ok, I'll chime in:
1. VPNs cost money, and most kids aren't going to shell out and set such a thing up.
2. There's running your Own VPN from (say) a VM "somewhere" else ( run my own for work because I use a lot of cafe networks I consider adversarial but I like cafes), please see Item 1 AND ADD Technical Prowess.
3. If the parents are running a commercial (not corporate) VPN, kids need only check their browser cache. Presto! (But parent kinks),
Utah is overreaching, by a LOT.
@evacide yeah i've seen many IT guy swearing they would block TOR and VPN failed.
I don't even understand why those old Fart that vote this crap think they can win what China and Russia fail to block for YEARS (if not decade).
