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.

    • @totallynotarobotEnglish
      1•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.

        • @totallynotarobotEnglish
          1•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?

          • ankokudaishogunEnglish
            2•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.

            • @totallynotarobotEnglish
              1•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.