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It is suspicious to me that "age assurance" is trending EXACTLY as AI agents become capable of autonomously operating a personal computer in the same way a huma
by sciencejerk 3mo ago
It is suspicious to me that "age assurance" is trending EXACTLY as AI agents become capable of autonomously operating a personal computer in the same way a human office worker would.
I'm afraid "age assurance" has nothing to do with "the children".
- chii 3mo ago> I'm afraid "age assurance" has nothing to do with "the children". and you should be afraid, very afraid. Because none of these (and other measures to invade privacy) has ever had anything to do with children.
- sigmoid10 3mo ago>It is suspicious to me that "age assurance" is trending EXACTLY as AI agents become capable of autonomously operating It is not, because your premise is false. This whole thing has been going on for as long as kids have been online. The early 2000s tried (and obviously failed) by using credit cards. The UK tried and failed last decade to ban porn for minors this way. AI tools are probably not even on the radar for the kind of politicians that keep pushing this.
- M95D 3mo ago> AI tools are probably not even on the radar for the kind of politicians that keep pushing this. Forget about the politicians for a bit. There still are many regions on the globe where no age verification is mandatory, yet websites chose to implement it anyway. Why, if not for tracking and bots?
- sigmoid10 3mo agoWell, because of things like COPPA I imagine most companies wouldn't want to risk anything here. So unless you have a website that is somehow guaranteed 100% blocking all traffic from the US or American citizens, you may as well implement it. But very few (if any) public websites will fall into that category.
- u1hcw9nx 3mo agoThe point of ZKP in EU wallet is that it separates checking age and privacy. You can both give a proof your age and not lose privacy.
- xinayder 3mo agoExcept that ZKP for sensitive data is far from being a thing, and also, I don't want the fucking government to have anything to do with what sites I access. Period. Why the hell do I need to login to my digital wallet to access a fucking website???
- Almondsetat 3mo agoThe web is not a magical place detached from reality. Wanting absolutely zero goverment involvement (which does not mean spying btw) with it is frankly absurd.
- brigandish 3mo agoThe web has not had age gating via large-scale government coercion since its inception. To claim that it's absurd to think we can do without it is to detach from that reality, and is itself absurd. The irony.
- Almondsetat 3mo agoI am not making an argument based on tradition. I couldn't care less that the web has not been government-gated for the past X years, because through this logic you should adhere to any dumb tradition or custom humans have ever had. I am concerned with the present and the future of the web's impact on the world, which of course requires government intervention like any other big phenomenon or technology in the history of humanity. Before snarkily calling "irony", at least understand the topic of discussion and make appropriate comparisons. P.S.: Not only is your assumption false, since in its first years the web was only accessible to academics so the gating was implicit, but the internet itself from its beginning to the present day requires heavy governmental intervention and international collaboration to make it work. Do you know what's behind the cables that carry your bytes? The ICANN? The IANA? I hope you never do, if you dislike government involvement this much