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nej24swei··on France targets Australia-style social media ban for children next year
Crypto, dah. Are you living in the 90s?

A ten year old raised/scammed $10k in crypto meme tokens last week.

Join us in the 21st century.

nej24swei··on France targets Australia-style social media ban for children next year
Everything is a slippery slope. Better nothing be done than keep inventing new ways to oppress humanity. Why does something need to be done anyway?

You can’t nerd harder and solve this problem. You have to fight these ideas at the root, and you my friend are being the so called “useful idiot” by raising and supporting such oppression and censorship.

nej24swei··on France targets Australia-style social media ban for children next year
Ok, so grifting for you and your friends?

It’s a really bad idea. It’s not a problem that needs to be solved by building a market for porn licenses.

nej24swei··on France targets Australia-style social media ban for children next year
And who is the biggest winner?

Triceratops Age Verification services, provided a state-sanctioned monopoly on issuing Porn Licenses. Awful, really.

nej24swei··on France targets Australia-style social media ban for children next year
And I am going to restate how it’s an absolutely terrible idea, and will always fail with its perverse incentives. This does not solve any problems and creates many more.

Your idea will create a massive black market for “adult validation tokens”, handing billions of dollars to criminal groups reselling these things.

And then where such a system goes in 5-10y. Sure it’s sorta anonymous today, but then new government decides - “let’s make it mandatory to be sold with a binding identity and credit card.” Suddenly you need that token to log in to any public website. And Chinese, European and American authorities demand realtime access to the global logs.

Every censorship system you build, even if it seems “good”, will eventually censor you and the things you care about. Don't design or build oppression technology.

The very idea that you can realistically enforce Point of Sales age checks at scale is not sensible.