Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/06/19/cornhub-to-be-culled-in-indiana-and-kentucky.html
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I read the headline wrong and, for some reason, thought that the game “Cornhole” was being outlawed.
There’s a joke here, but it’s too early for me to make it.
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The perfect job does not exi…
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seems like the age verification laws are actually chilling speech
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Love how “protecting the minors” always involves “making sure we de-anonymize minors and probably put it in some dataset that’s not very secure so suddenly everyone knows about minors’ data” instead of PASSING A F**KING PRIVACY LAW WITH TEETH like a civilized country.
Oh and as a Virginia resident, I may or may not be able to tell you that there’s plenty of good, free VPNs out there that do the trick. 
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Looks like Indiana and Kentucky want younguns to learn about porn the old fashioned way: via moldy magazines hidden in the forest by someone’s older brother.
Or files shared via flash drives.
The street finds a way…
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Start the timer for when one of these repositories of government IDs gets hacked, and anyone on the Internet can pretend to be those people. (Too much to hope that they’d watermark the stored IDs in a way that couldn’t be trivially removed. 
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Even my kids knew about VPNs before they were 12. Hard not to - with all the ads. If these states enact barriers…
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The party of small government and personal responsibility, lol.
(Also “Natalie Dressed” is the coolest fake name ever)
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Meh I’m using it for porn on a burner email address. Everyone who knew anything about my IP address before could have seen that information so nothing new.
For me personally I will weigh the risk vs going to a riskier porn site that doesn’t comply and also does shady things or give some other site/third party who helps them comply PII to verify my age because the rural parts of Virginia squeezed Glenn Youngkin in by a tiny margin over the stale turd former Democratic governor that was foisted on us at the last second a few years ago.
I will heed that article before recommending that to other people though.
That said, a real federal data privacy law combined with the press and the government not treating Big Tech as all knowing Gods would fix the whole problem.
Unless you’re absolutely sure it’s a split-tunnel VPN and have verified through other means, or it’s entirely browser based you still don’t want to trust it. There’s a lot of background network activity going on in your system.
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Working as intended.
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So what Ms. Kekesi is proposing is that instead of every adult site in the world collects a photo of ID and a selfie of every user of their services, they instead defer it to the Big Techs?
I propose a simpler solution:
- Every adult service should comply to some form of metadata marking that shows them as an adult oriented service (ICRA was exactly that and failed because none cared).
- Every device (PC, phone, whatever) can be set to block adult services and the option to disable the block can be restricted by a PIN. The option is in the device, not in a cloud account, and it won’t demand collection of documents.
- Manufacturers can sell factory locked devices so parents don’t even have to worry setting up a PIN.
That’s it. No collection of data and parents are responsible for what their children will get access to. Yeah, it will be circumvented easily. So will be the alternatives proposed by the States legislators and the PH executive.
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How does this work with OSS?
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The same functionality can be implemented at browser or OS level, regardless of being open or closed source. If fact, the ICRA I mentioned was supported by Internet Explorer as an opt-in back in the day.
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“can be” is not “will”. Trying to mandate it will get you a middle finger from a lot of maintainers.
And, exactly how do you do it at the OS level without requiring the system to crack SSL? Not everything uses the OS level calls.
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