Don’t be fooled. Age is just a convenient lever. Identity verification is coming for the whole Internet, and will be advertisers’ and fascists’ collective wet dreams.
Considering the fact there are global blackmail operations, utilizing the rape of children, that no one in positions of power anywhere ever seem truly interested in doing anything about, I’d say that once again, the stated “protect the children” objective probably isn’t the aim…
My prediction is that this is more about banning VPNs than about age verification. Start with this, then when everyone is “using VPNs to break the law” they have an excuse to ban VPNs.
Governments world wide likely see VPNs as incredibly dangerous. Plenty of examples of countries like Iran cutting off the internet entirely to prevent protests from organizing.
Laws can easily have exceptions for these things. In China for instance “non approved” VPNs are illegal, but there are plenty of legal VPNs as well.
For instance businesses can get approval for their own VPNs, and regular people can use some free/paid VPNs within the country, but presumably the government can see all of the traffic within those.
My ISP is a municipal utility. Theres no way in a million years we’d ever vote to do something as stupid as require an identity to use our fiber service. Someone once suggested charging additional for excessive data usage and they were laughed out of the room.
Don’t be fooled. Age is just a convenient lever. Identity verification is coming for the whole Internet, and will be advertisers’ and fascists’ collective wet dreams.
Considering the fact there are global blackmail operations, utilizing the rape of children, that no one in positions of power anywhere ever seem truly interested in doing anything about, I’d say that once again, the stated “protect the children” objective probably isn’t the aim…
My prediction is that this is more about banning VPNs than about age verification. Start with this, then when everyone is “using VPNs to break the law” they have an excuse to ban VPNs.
Governments world wide likely see VPNs as incredibly dangerous. Plenty of examples of countries like Iran cutting off the internet entirely to prevent protests from organizing.
I think they want their own great firewall.
That would kill ATMs and a bunch of other things. Work from home, too, but I doubt the government cares about that much.
Would technically ban SDWANs, the new kid on the block everyone is creaming over.
Laws can easily have exceptions for these things. In China for instance “non approved” VPNs are illegal, but there are plenty of legal VPNs as well.
For instance businesses can get approval for their own VPNs, and regular people can use some free/paid VPNs within the country, but presumably the government can see all of the traffic within those.
I don’t need to avail myself of anything requiring it.
Don’t be so sure, if they force this at the ISP level then in order to have an account you’d need to prove your identity.
My ISP is a municipal utility. Theres no way in a million years we’d ever vote to do something as stupid as require an identity to use our fiber service. Someone once suggested charging additional for excessive data usage and they were laughed out of the room.
Saying that in a politics forum is funny. Plus, what if it becomes a federal law? Doesn’t matter what your local thinks.
Saying that on a thread about a policy that was put in place by people who had been elected to their positions is equally funny.