Paris and the porn industry have squabbled for years over how to verify viewers’ ages.

Paris and the porn industry have squabbled for years over how to verify viewers’ ages.

  • totallynotarobot@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Oh for sure. It’s a very complicated problem and a lot of people are invested in allowing the abuse to continue (otherwise ph would have been prosecuted and shut down).

    I don’t agree that age gating is simple. Not only can people lie, but handling different jurisdictions is complicated af.

    My reaction was more to the specific complaint than the mechanism. I definitely appreciate how hard any of this is to implement with stuff on the internet.

    • albert180@feddit.deEnglish
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      1 year ago

      At least in the European Union you can use the eID System of the identity cards which allows you to disclose your age without your personal information.

      • totallynotarobot@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Oh that’s cool. Not European, but will investigate because I like cool things. How secure is it, and how reliable/fake-proof?

        • ankokudaishogun@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 year ago

          A lot secure and fake proof.

          It was made for accessing government services, after all. I think it’s still kinda slow and cumbersome though.

          • totallynotarobot@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            1 year ago

            Where I am from, “made for accessing government services” would suggest insecure and unreliable lol. Glad that’s not the case here, that sounds like a good part of the solution.

          • albert180@feddit.deEnglish
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            1 year ago

            You can use it with your Smartphone, But you need to remember your ID and the whole process takes like 30 Seconds. But I guess you would only need to do it once or every few months