Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

Tag: age verification

“Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday that adults shouldn’t have to share their personal information to access pornography online” | wow…

2024/02/23
The Fundamental Problems with Social Media Age-Verification Legislation – R Street Institute

2024/02/22
Shoshana Weissmann: Carding People for Joining Social Media Solves Nothing

2024/02/15
Age Verification: “New Jersey […] requiring social media companies to contract with third-party data vendors to perform invasive age and identity verification”

2023/12/22
UK porn watchers could have faces scanned – BBC News | how to teach a generation of young Britons to use dodgy VPNs

2023/12/05
New Zealand smoking ban: Health experts criticise new government’s shock reversal | I was not aware that NZ had dropped the rolling smoking ban. The UK currently persists.

2023/11/29
Stuff To Read: Google Decides To Pull Up The Ladder On The Open Internet, Pushes For Unconstitutional Regulatory Proposals | interesting take from @mmasnick suggesting that Google has caved (?) to age-estimation / child-protection interests in order to shore-up monopoly interest, rather than from fear

2023/10/26
NEW: “LockAndCode” Podcast on #AgeVerification by @Malwarebytes, featuring @AlecMuffett: “Identity crisis: How an anti-porn crusade could jam the Internet”

2023/05/22
Increasingly frantic attempts by the #AgeVerification & #OnlineSafetyBill community to dissuade people of the obvious logic that…

2022/02/23
“What if you could only speak online if you had a car number plate”: quick comments on yet another weird Internet surveillance proposal – Neil Brown

2021/11/16
Hard Examples: why it’s a really bad idea to strongly enforce against “Single User Multiple Accounts” (#SUMA or #FINSTA) on Instagram, Facebook & other Social Media, via #yungkendee; cc: @FrancesHaugen

2021/10/31
#Identity, #OnlineSafety & #AgeVerification – notes on “Can facial analysis technology create a child-safe internet?”

2021/07/11