• MimicJar@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    “…like forcing users to upload copies of their government IDs to access an online service.”

    “Some states, like Louisiana, have tailored their bills to ban kids from seeing online porn by forcing everyone, including adults, to verify their age before using the site. Google’s proposal does not oppose age verification on porn and gambling sites.”

    That’s terrifying. Signing up for Lemmy would require uploading a government ID. I don’t know the solution to this problem, but I’m not confident this proposal is the right one.

      • ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        I live in Louisiana and we don’t enforce the important laws; we definitely aren’t enforcing that one. I’m not a connoisseur de porn sites but I think Pornhub is the only site that has an ID requirement and they probably just complied so they could file a lawsuit.

        Also, I could take a street car to the French Quarter right now for $1.25 and get motorboated for one additional dollar if I wanted. I have no idea what the state legislature thinks passing a porn ID law will accomplish. But rest assured, their laws mean nothing in New Orleans.

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            This is what I’ve been saying. They probably don’t care if little Jimmy knows how to skirt the id requirement by using one of the thousands of sites that don’t comply with Louisiana’s stupid law, but it sure would be a shame if word got out that major democrat nominees uploaded their id to a porn site one day several years ago.

            This kind of law is a thin veil of “think of the children” in order to orchestrate future extortion.