Not every new law is a slippery slope that leads to something, this line of reasoning is literally a fallacy.

When we blocked youth from drinking, we didn’t inch towards making it illegal for people in their 30s did we? Worst we got was like 21 in some places.

Great!

I remember my grandparents saying they dream in black and white like they’re old tv programs.

I didn’t watch many movies as a kid, but my cousins rented them all the time. I remember thinking they all talked and argued as if they were in a movie.

Really makes you wonder about us, and the next gen.

Why even care what the ai had to say? It’s not conscious.

The user is looking to deflect blame for giving a very fallible outside agent the ability to delete important information.

That’s on you my guy.

I’m sad that they had to use streamer cards as a way to sell their indie gam, because otherwise it does look kind of fun

On the upside, maybe western youngsters value having a personal life they enjoy more.

But not League of Legends 🫠 Thanks anticheat

Why would speaking while reading affect memory at all? I guess news hosts who regurgitate teleprompter lines are all Mensa members now

Yes, both countries have serious problems. At least Americans can discuss theirs openly.

Yeah, those suck a lot, too

Fuck rent, but,

Rent > Intergenerational slave labor camps

Jesus fucking Christ

Man kids should not be able to enter strip clubs, that’s insane to me.

This is the most convincing argument for me, as I know many governments have not been putting their citizen’s interests first.

Despite the risks, I know these sorts of anonymous confirmation systems already exist, and can be implemented effectively with transparency.

Most VPN services tout “zero logs”, and many back it up with audits. We can demand the same from our government.

I’m sure drivers licenses and social security numbers made people uncomfortable too when they were rolled out, but they certainly improved our lives.

A slippery slope is a logical fallacy - we can impose just enough oversight to be helpful AND curtail overreach. We can build and verify a good system.

Also, thank you for being kind.

I think at this point it’s clear to everyone that content moderation done by humans is not viable at scale. In this sense the web is unique, and would require a more dragnet solution, like ID verification. This is done in China already to much success to limit game time for youths.

A child would be turned away at a strip club, so perhaps this is a better analogy than a bar.

Still, if a parent wanted their children to browse an unfiltered Reddit they could provide their ID, and in this way we have a similar analogy.

This is just a lack of imagination on your part.

You could theoretically come up with a system that is both decentralized and able verify age using dedicated protocols/API to respective governments. Just like how most Lemmy sites scan for and report CSAM.

Sure, we all have anecdotes of finding porn on the internet before it was reasonable. And everyone can eventually find ways around barriers. I also remember someone young googling terms and not realizing there was a setting blocking content. They had given up.

Barriers can meaningfully delay, giving young people more time to mature before they are exposed to this content. If every social media platform implemented this, it would have a significant impact. That’s why the porn industry lobbies so hard against these sorts of laws.

I think many underestimate how damaging porn use actually is, how toxic the industry is, and how much of the traffic is generated by the underaged.

We can change anything, and if it makes society a better place then we actually have a moral obligation to try.

I’m also not asking for perfectly monitored total surveillance. Just some barriers for surface level use.

A kid can camp outside a liquor store, offering strangers money to buy them alcohol. But this is difficult, and has a chance of having them turned in.

In the same way an ID pop-up can be circumvented with savvy use of VPNs etc., but it will easily block many of the youngest and most vulnerable. It doesn’t have to be perfect to be effective.

Advertisers have already been mining porn habits on Reddit to sell to third parties. Browser fingerprinting and the Reddit app identify you. If you were concerned about privacy you would not be using Reddit.

But a lot of children and teens do use Reddit, and we should do our best to limit their access to pornography, especially when this data is indiscriminately collected about them too.

If this is true, then this censorship is a terrible tragedy. I still would like government imposed ID age verification for porn though.

Edit: Judging by the spike in downvotes on this comment I can see assumptions are being made about my intentions.

You can limit pornography and not limit access to sex education services, or LGBT communities as they are not pornographic.

But if there was an LGBT forum posting LGBT pornography, then yes, it too should have age verification.