• HexesofVexes@lemmy.world
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      *so that the government can say kids won’t watch porn.

      Rule 1 of computers that everyone who has taught an ICT class learns - if little Timmy wants titties, he finds a way.

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        Who taught you sex is a drug? As long as words mean their definitions, it’s categorically not. Plus it’s probably kinda harmful to pile on the stigma already surrounding sex by conflating it with drugs and all the stigma that comes with that.

        Hopefully I’m wrong, but it’s kinda giving a nofap pseudoscience red flag to me.

        Parents definitely should be teaching their kids about this stuff at the appropriate time, but they should stick to the facts.

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      In Sweden pretty much anybody has Bank Id, an app which is connected to a bank account and which can function as a valid identification.

      App belongs a private company, but it’s still trustworthy and everybody can sign government docs with that.

      This is how you should do age verification, through a third party app, not like any site will get your id/picture to just end in their DBs ready to be stolen.

      Every government should create an app for the online id, I don’t get why this seems so hard to achieve.

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        Credit cards should roughly do the same, but both of those aren’t “great” for privacy and really exists to make profiles of adults while pretending to negate the need for parents to parent (the only real way to reduce/prevent harms of kids witnessing age inappropriate media). Your ability to do financial transactions shouldn’t be tied to your speech or content you view.

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          My point is you shouldn’t present any id to a random site, it should exists a government app that does it for you.

          Same as the passport you show at the border and it should not even show name or picture, is should just say if you are over 18 or not.

          People shouldn’t be in the need to show a credit card to watch porn.