Britain’s most tattooed man says new UK age checks block him from p*rn sites as facial recognition mistakes his tattoos for a mask, calling the tech discriminatory.
How about… People are paid as age verifiers. Win, win. More jobs, lower chance of data being stolen, maybe more awkwardness if you came across your partner on the other end of the teleconference call.
Or, how about this, bring back porn theatres. Industry gets paid from ticket sales, you have a ticket person who can ask for ID.
Also, is porn really that damaging to kids? I remember when there were videos circulating from beheadings and that was far more traumatising.
“Oh, hi Andrew why are you here?”
“Got a bottle of wine with my Asda order and need to go through this circus again…”
“Well enjoy your wine, age approved, see you!”
Idk, even that feels like a bit of a ideal/optimistic take. I just can’t see this going well no matter how they try to implement it. Can’t help but feel the ick anyway.
I like the rest of your points, but moving verification off to a different private companies is not solving anything. Why would a second company not sell your data or make it easy to steal?
Edit: Ah, my bad, my brain erroneously conflated paying people with private companies.
Why privatise though? Or if you do privatise, pass legislation to make data trading illegal unless you pay the person whose data is bring traded or make it outright illegal. Or figure out a way to make the data completely useless. Perhaps banning advertising and marketing or limiting what they can do. So many possibilities for a better future than this.
Ah, my bad, my brain erroneously conflated paying people with private companies. Thanks for catching me on that. I am fine with it being done in the public center as long as there isn’t a more anonymous way of age verification. There may be a public private key cryptography thing we could use instead. I don’t know if this has been explored yet.
How about… People are paid as age verifiers. Win, win. More jobs, lower chance of data being stolen, maybe more awkwardness if you came across your partner on the other end of the teleconference call.
Or, how about this, bring back porn theatres. Industry gets paid from ticket sales, you have a ticket person who can ask for ID.
Also, is porn really that damaging to kids? I remember when there were videos circulating from beheadings and that was far more traumatising.
Broken window fallacy
First thing I thought of was what if your family like aunt/uncle or cousin has this kind of job… that’d be way awkward.
Doesn’t need to be?
“Oh, hi Andrew why are you here?” “Got a bottle of wine with my Asda order and need to go through this circus again…” “Well enjoy your wine, age approved, see you!”
call disconnects, browser goes back to not-Asda
Idk, even that feels like a bit of a ideal/optimistic take. I just can’t see this going well no matter how they try to implement it. Can’t help but feel the ick anyway.
Probably the more desirable dystopian future, to be honest.
I like the rest of your points, but moving verification off to a different private companies is not solving anything. Why would a second company not sell your data or make it easy to steal?
Edit: Ah, my bad, my brain erroneously conflated paying people with private companies.
Why privatise though? Or if you do privatise, pass legislation to make data trading illegal unless you pay the person whose data is bring traded or make it outright illegal. Or figure out a way to make the data completely useless. Perhaps banning advertising and marketing or limiting what they can do. So many possibilities for a better future than this.
Ah, my bad, my brain erroneously conflated paying people with private companies. Thanks for catching me on that. I am fine with it being done in the public center as long as there isn’t a more anonymous way of age verification. There may be a public private key cryptography thing we could use instead. I don’t know if this has been explored yet.