One of the issues with “age verification” is that an effect of the suggested technologies is that they ultimatively take control of your computer. In the suggested form, they require elements that are not controlled by you, the user. It is like replacing the lock to your home’s main door, for which YOU (and only you) have the keys, with an electronic, remotely controlled lock, controlled by goverments, which can lock out at any time.
This was always to the goal of “age verification”. The government wants a way to know who is behind every “subversive” comment so that they can chill speech. “For the children” is just the most convenient excuse.
If that doesn’t work, it will be “to fight terrorism”.
I’m so vehemently opposed to using their euphemism for it. “Age verification” is just the marketing name for it, it’s identity verification.
I wonder what happens if I signed up for Revolut on my Pixel 9a running GrapheneOS, because Graphene has some security advantages over stock Android.
What is so unique about a Google phone that does not allow the alleged high security posture of Graphene to not work on another brand of manufacturer?
Lets hope this forces tor and I2P to become the “normal” internet.
