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The Online Porn Free-for-All Is Coming to an End

theatlantic.com

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Homomorphic encryption and trusted third parties are proposed to limit government visibility into site visits and avoid identity leak in age checks.

The Australian privacy commission and the CSIRO seem to believe it's a viable model. Anything involving a TTP causes some grief, but in this space it's often about least-worst choices.

It has to be said that devolving sex-ed to porn sites is causing significant distress to young minds. A cohort are growing up thinking choking is normalised. On the other hand they should have some idea what a clitoris is.

The underlying premise of all of this, of course, is that governments have any interest at all in limiting their own visibility.

> On the other hand they should have some idea what a clitoris is.

Alternatively, learning everything involved in a birth -

    ex: nesting, kegels, stimulating oxytocin production, birthing positions, what is an episiotomy, what are signs of preeclampsia, how to examine the placenta, cord cutting practice

- this would give youth a much broader perspective from which to consider the clitoris.

Three decades into the internet era, the Supreme Court finally appears ready to uphold age-verification laws.

^ Article lede line.

Within:

   A Pornhub spokesperson who goes by Ian (he did not provide a last name) told me that age-verification laws will lead children to seek out porn from even more troubling sources.

This is a US story about potential coming restriction on US hosted sites and the requirement for modern semi anonymous ID passes given that:

  The Supreme Court unanimously struck down this section of the law in the 1997 ..

  .. repeated the lower court’s finding that “existing technology did not include any effective method for a sender to prevent minors from obtaining access to its communications on the Internet without also denying access to adults.” 

  “Until gateway technology is available throughout cyberspace, and it is not in 1997, a speaker cannot be reasonably assured that the speech he displays will reach only adults because it is impossible to confine speech to an ‘adult zone.’”

Now days:

  In 2018, Louisiana had implemented a digital-ID-card app, called LA Wallet, that state residents could use instead of a physical ID. Schlegel realized that the same system could be used to share a user’s “coarse” age—whether they are older or younger than 18, and nothing else—with a porn company. The “gateway technology” that O’Connor noted didn’t exist in 1997 was now a reality.

But, again, this is restricted to US sites so far .. there are many non-US porn sources, a good many that make PornHub look tame.

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