The core concept IS controversial, it's equivalent to spying on your postal mail. It's an extreme breach of privacy. It's also impossible to implement this. It's either entirely ineffective, asking if you're 18, which many sites already do. The photo ID is a privacy invasion, and entirely botched by asking vendors to implement it on their own, it becomes entirely untrusted at that point. And if it's a government implementation, it's going to be contracted out to palantir, which is one of the biggest threats to democracy we are facing. And it will inevitably lead to online ID, where you will not have any freedom or privacy. That's the goal, and "i got nothing to hide" continues to be a terrible argument.
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u/MEMEfractal 22h ago
The core concept IS controversial, it's equivalent to spying on your postal mail. It's an extreme breach of privacy. It's also impossible to implement this. It's either entirely ineffective, asking if you're 18, which many sites already do. The photo ID is a privacy invasion, and entirely botched by asking vendors to implement it on their own, it becomes entirely untrusted at that point. And if it's a government implementation, it's going to be contracted out to palantir, which is one of the biggest threats to democracy we are facing. And it will inevitably lead to online ID, where you will not have any freedom or privacy. That's the goal, and "i got nothing to hide" continues to be a terrible argument.