Conservatives: keep it down!

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The "trustworthy" porn companies are unwilling to serve to regions that require them to store government IDs.
Source: All the good porn sites blocked my state.
- Because that’s like them having to become HIPAA compliant. The amount of work with the potential of breaches and lawsuits isn’t worth it by any means.
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- My hot take was "the notoriously hackable companies are now trusted to not get hacked"

I'm not worried about pornhub/redtube/xhamster/xvideos/chaturbate/only fans leaking info but more someone hacking in. There's a potential goldmine of blackmail/sextortion material from seeing what fetishes someone has.
- Even if they do need to authenticate some digitalid, there's no need to store it and there's no reason for it to link to an individual person.
  This is a very dangerous idea as is.
  
  And this won't even stop kids from finding porn. I think it is based on good intentions but they are too proud to say "yeha, maybe this has more cons than pros"
- Also porn history is a really good clue to figuring out someone's sexuality and gender identity. And useful to conservatives for demonizing queer people as sexual deviants. I 100% believe this is an indirect way of harming queer people by outing them and their sexual interests.
- I'm hoping it happens to everyone all at once. Then another wave of sexual liberation can begin.

This is the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
Small government, right CPC?
- To be clear: climate change requires individual responsibility. Keeping your kids off legitimate online pornography websites is too big for citizens to handle on their own and requires government intervention.
  
  Well yeah, one of them involves standing up to corpos and the other one would require actually talking to your kids, and conservatives are nothing if not cowardly, so

Damn it! I come to Lemmy to laugh at US politicians saying stupid things! If the CPC win the election I fear c/memes is going to have more Canadian Content.

that this is not enough of a dipshit statement to exclude him from everybody's good books is... like, what's the point
if you cannot plainly see that this is the most removed suggestion it is possible to make under capitalism, it can only be because you have paid attention to no world event since like 1750
the plastics recycling lie (it's just been shown that plastics recycling does not work, can not work, and that the oil companies have known this, lied about it, and then made money selling additional recycling-related products since like the 70s) is so recent and yet still walks out there, with his bare face hanging out, and says this shit
- I've never heard that plastic recycling straight up doesnt work but it sounds like something the oil companies would do. Do you have a link to a documentary or something about that matter?
  
  Basically it costs too much to recycle most plastic. It's just so much cheaper to sell it to impoverished countries that will either burn it or dump it somewhere.
  
  I bet he knows about the very high leak probability, for him it's just another tool to subdue people (he'd love to have the leak himself to leverage power).
  
  John Oliver did a bit on it 2021
  
  This is just one article but
  https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/single-use-plastic-chemical-recycling-disposal/661141/
  
  I bet he knows about the very high leak probability, for him it's just another tool to subdue people (he'd love to have the leak himself to leverage power).
- I bet he knows about the very high leak probability, for him it's just another tool to subdue people (he'd love to have the leak himself to leverage power).
- I bet he knows about the very high leak probability, for him it's just another tool to subdue people (he'd love to have the leak himself to leverage power).

Remember: to conservatives, private companies can do nothing wrong.

Yeah it's not the Porn companies I'm worried about, it's the companies the porn companies use to store the data. Even if they don't leak it, someone ~~can~~ will break in, either a bad actor or the government themselves because, let's be frank, having a list of porn users and what porn they watch is going to be irresistible if they want to spark a scandal based around, say, rival politicians or activists.
- I trusted my government to protect my info, and now I have LifeLock for life because of several breaches on their part. If data is stored, it is virtually certain some portion of it will get leaked.

And here I was thinking banning flipper zeros was the top of our government stupidity

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bork_tapes
So much for once bitten, twice shy.....
- This is interesting. This incident resulted in the Video Privacy Protection Act. I wonder if you could apply this to streaming providers who sell your watch history to advertisers.

See Wikipedia: Five Eyes

I guess they were getting tired of doing well in the polls and wanted to shoot themselves in the foot a bit just to remember how it feels.

My hot take is I'm actually okay providing an ID to prove my age. Where it breaks down is these idiots in governments think the only way to do that is by having the sites maintain that.
What should be done is have browsers like Chrome or Firefox. Implement a system that age gates websites, where you have to provide your ID to unlock your browser to allow you to see 18 and over material. The only thing the government would see it would be that you have unlocked 18 and above material, and sites would only have to change a metadata item saying that they are providing 18 and over material. This would be a low cost for everyone involved and would keep privacy in the forefront.
Of course, privacy isn't actually what they're trying to get at, they want to spy on us and everything about us. It's not about protecting the children, it's about knowing everything about us, so a solution like that would never be implemented
Edit: Downvote me if you want, but if the only alternative is to hand over my ID to porn sites who then will be forced to have those verified with the government then maybe it's worth investigating some alternatives. I'm not saying my idea is rock solid folks, it just popped in my head, I'm saying we shouldn't be letting 90 year olds in government decide what the best technical solution is, there are a thousand ways to skin a cat.
- Yeeeeah, nope. Seriously, all the ways of age verification suck 'cause age verification itself sucks.
  It's unmaintainable for both websites and browsers (there'll always be sites that say "fuck it", and there'll always be people to remove those checks from the browsers);
  It gives personal info to the entities that have no business handling it;
  [For sites] that would not leak the info: would you like an unsalted md5 with that?
  What's the alternative? To not fucking verify the age. I'm really confused how even normies aren't tired of that "protecting the kids" bullshit. Oh, they're worried? How about trying to be a better fucking parent so that their kids don't hesitate to talk to them about stuff or at least setting up parental control software.
  
  Great, your opinion that it sucks is noted, and ignored by the governments. Which is why I've thought about things that could be proposed as actual solutions. Dislike it all you want, they're going to get it one way or another. UK, USA, and Canada are all trying to push legislation that would force porn providers to verify IDs and store their users.
  Sorry I wasted my breath with my terrible idea that would only keep your porn history private from the feds. Guess we should just give up and not pitch any other ideas.
- The sites shouldn't have to maintain that but browsers should?
  Also, some browsers are open source.
  There's so many problems with this idea that I don't know where to start. But, I do see where you're coming from.
  
  Sure there are, and there will be ways to get around it, it's a jumping off point. I can say firmly though I'd much rather have a token stored in my browser proving I'm over 18 vs every porn site knowing exactly who I am and the government knowing every porn site I visit. I'd rather give up some freedom from my browser to keep privacy vs giving all of my data on my kinks to the government.
  Guess I'm trying to say "There are other ways of solving it that don't require handing over all of my data to the government or have them track me site to site"
- Here's a crazy idea: don't fucking do any of that. What benefit is there to doing it in the first place?
  
  See the problem is that they're going to do it anyway. So if the "don't fucking do it" is off the table, which I hate to tell you but it pretty much is, then wouldn't it be at least good to have a privacy based approach?
- Nope fuck that.

Meh, I'll vote for the conservatives still. Housing and food prices are still too high and the liberals have been incompetent for the last 8 years.
- Nevermind the infringement on human rights and the conservatives' historical tendency to cater to corporate interests. Affordable housing wasn't a priority under Harper either.
- Whether you're a troll (it's 2024, grow up) or someone whose brain is literal mush, do the world a favor and cut your internet access...
- "More monopolies will lower prices."
- Conservatives, famous for reining in the profiteering of corporations, banks, and landlords.
  Granted you are correct about the liberals sucking insane ass. But I don't think the solution is to once more flip back to conservative and then repeat this exact same thing but reversed in a decade. Both the cons and the libs have shown very clearly over the past decades thar they can't govern properly.

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