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.

  • jeffw@lemmy.worldOP
    915·
    1 year ago

    As an analogy, should governments allow children access to strip clubs and have parents handle it or should that be illegal and have kids banned from those physical spaces?

    It’s interesting because I think banning kids from strip clubs is pretty popular, but the digital laws are not as popular. I don’t know of a way to enforce a ban in a digital space that doesn’t infringe on individual liberties though

    • TheBenCommandments@infosec.pub
      301·
      1 year ago

      The reason is a technical one. At a strip club, none of your information is being transmitted; it’s just the bouncer making sure you’re of age by looking at your ID.

      Per the EFF:

      Age verification systems are surveillance systems. Mandatory age verification, and with it, mandatory identity verification, is the wrong approach to protecting young people online. It would force websites to require visitors to prove their age by submitting information such as government-issued identification. This scheme would lead us further towards an internet where our private data is collected and sold by default. The tens of millions of Americans who do not have government-issued identification may lose access to much of the internet. And anonymous access to the web could cease to exist.

      https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/03/age-verification-mandates-would-undermine-anonymity-online

      • Bizarroland@kbin.social
        26·
        1 year ago

        Being forced to reveal identification before you’re allowed to view pornography is the equivalent of only being allowed to masturbate while your parents are in the room watching you.

    • socsa@lemmy.ml
      14·
      1 year ago

      Banning children from strip clubs in no way impacts the rights of other adults to enjoy strip clubs.

      • jeffw@lemmy.worldOP
        27·
        1 year ago

        And, again, I am against the laws as written. But I’m asking more broadly about children accessing porn. I would never support a law that requires people to upload their ID, but there has to be some safe way to pull this off.