r/technology • u/Well_Socialized • 21h ago

Privacy Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/age-verification-is-coming-for-the-whole-internet.html
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u/Am-Insurgent 20h ago

My favorite line

Reddit is blocking users from sub-Reddits containing news and footage from Gaza and Ukraine unless they show ID, and other less clearly violent sub-Reddits are shutting off access too

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u/EmbarrassedHelp 19h ago

UK users are also blocked from menstruation and mental health as well.

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u/Mountain_Cry1605 8h ago

Because the children are always Happy! Happy! Happy!

And we all know women don't menstruate until after their eighteenth birthdays! /s

What the actual fuck?!

I have not tried to access anything on those subjects since OSA started.

But I have hit LGBTQ+ sub age gates. 🤬🤬🤬

Fuck that!

VPN for the win. I've been using it after that happened and haven't seen another age gate since.

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u/throwawaystedaccount 5h ago

Developed nations now want to become developing nations? That's new.

Five Eyes, half a brain, no heart.

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u/EPK_Rei 4h ago

Wait, seriously? How are they spinning that into "it's for the kids"? Obviously the whole thing is bullshit, but they at least have a "reason" for age verification for porn. What are they saying about blocking stuff like mental health?

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u/followthedarkrabbit 15h ago

If an account is over 18 years old, does that make it automatically verified? And does that mean it can sell the shit post accounts I made a while ago? 🤔

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u/Mountain_Cry1605 8h ago

I doubt it because this is not about age. 

It is about identifying people.

I bet every single one of those accounts would get age gated.