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Children are drawing moustaches on their faces to fool online age checks - and it's working; fake birthdays, borrowed IDs, and creative facial hair bypass age checks (www.internetmatters.org)
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[–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

Even with false positives it won't change anything. It's just a small group of people. It's worth it to "save the children". If "the system" rejects you, then you must be at fault. Maybe we can even sell a "Super ID Check". Just a one time $200 fee and then the system will leave you alone. (For 3 years, then pay the fee again, but renewal is even faster this time.)

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago

    I'm not saying its going to happen quickly... But filtering in many forms has been tried in the past and they all died similarly. Some vocal group gets inconvenienced by it and then, under scrutiny, the blemishes get paraded out and the project dies a slow ugly death.

    The actual reason for the push right now is meta (among others) just want to wash their hands of the responsibility... And that aligns with some tech bros wanting to hoover up peoples ids and resell that info. The whole thing will sour once there's a significant leak that ties risk into that bottom line and nobody will want to carry it.

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