taizou @lion@computerfairi.es

@ansuz absolutely. And you won't be surprised to hear this from me, but elsewhere in this thread where you mentioned that systems of censorship always target minorities? Well, what's wild is that the entire premise of age verification is "we're going to target this legally subjugated minority!" It's just that there's overwhelming populist support for restricting the movement and information freedom of children.

If more people saw that as tremendously immoral in its own right, the whole conversation about age verification would be DOA, and all human life would benefit from the protections of privacy and free access.

@ansuz@gts.cryptography.dog I'm not from the UK either but it's only one of the more clear cut examples. As a trans woman growing up in the 80s/90s I know my share of what epistemic injustice can do to a life.

There resides a lot of power in deciding what is "appropriate for children". As a society we often treat it as a given, as something that is common sense. But it is really far from common sense - it is wildly political, often not common sense (as in counter-intuitive when looking at the science) and thus using it as a populist topic will most likely hurt children more than help them. (And don't get me started on adultism...)

And that's only looking at it wrt. children, not counting all the other problems with such a system.

A lot of problems with youth's internet usage would be solved if we'd restrict systems that are generally harmful to everyone. Such as addictive algorithms and UX design.

<sarcasm>I wonder why that is not the louder discussion... 🤔</sarcasm>

Once more, for the people who missed my previous rants on the topic: It's okay to adopt the stance that age verification is a bad idea.

You don't need to weaken your position by saying it might be okay if they eventually used Zero-Knowledge Proofs or pseudonymous systems.

First, such schemes aren't suitable for this domain even at a theoretical level. If you think they might then you don't understand the problem.

Second, even if ZKP was an applicable solution, it would still prevent undocumented people from accessing the internet like those that various governments choose to recognize as human.

Third, one goal of a functioning society ought to be producing responsible adults, and treating them as complete children until they suddenly turn 18 is not a reasonable way to accomplish that.

Government-mandated age verification for the internet is bad public policy, and it's 100% okay to say as much.

#AgeVerification #surveillance

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