What are your thoughts on restricting children’s access to pornography online?

Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 96 points – 1 years ago

There are a lot of GOP-controller legislatures in the USA pushing through so-called “child protection” laws, but there’s a toll in the form of impacting people’s rights and data privacy. Most of these bills involve requiring adults to upload a copy of their photo ID.

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(the best one so far is that the browser itself checks your age

How? As a user I want to have total control over my browser and Internet is an open platform - any browser should be able to view any website even though google is trying to change that with their DRM.

I don't know exactly but the two big things I've seen, and again I'm not the engineer of it or anything, but

Your browser would have to implement some sort of 3rd party ID checker that the results could then be stored in a non-adaptable way (specifically parental controls I think would need to be set up), then when a site is loaded it reports to the browser the minimum age limit and the browser decides if you can see it or
You could register your ID on a third party ID checker site that does not log data, only verifies that you are of age. Then on load websites could then check against this third party service to verify the user is 18+.

Know that yes this is a limitation of a browser, and that's why it's viewed as a compromise, a word that a lot of people have forgotten. None of us really want to have to prove it, but if there is a need to prevent children from accessing content (and tbh there is a need), then I'd rather have it be done in a privacy focused way.

So it's not your browser that checks your age but a third party. This raises a few questions:

What kind of IDs are accepted? Say I have one issued by Singapore...
How often should it check that a person that uses my browser is still me?

the browser decides if you can see it or

Yea, no. I decide, not the browser.