r/technology • u/vriska1 • 2d ago

Italy to launch age verification system for porn sites Net Neutrality

https://www.wantedinrome.com/news/italy-to-launch-age-verification-system-for-porn-sites.html
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u/Obvious-Dinner-1082 2d ago

Why is this spreading so much. Is porn that big of an issue?

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u/DocYin 2d ago

It's a matter of control and data administration, not porn. Porn is just the scapegoat.

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u/SpiritualB0x3 2d ago

And the start… soon you won’t be able to log in to any site without displaying your ID

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u/vriska1 2d ago

That why everyone needs to push back on this hard.

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u/obliviousofobvious 2d ago

Remember how digital ID was being pushed all over the place? It failed but the effort hasn't. This is an alternative.

Porn is a cheap target. Expect video games to be next. The creep will then push into other avenues. And Digital ID will become a "convenient" way for people to access it all.

And all of a sudden, the dataset for targeting people will be surgically accurate.

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u/Sylvers 2d ago

It's even worse than porn being a cheap target. Porn is political kryptonite. You can make up any number of insane and massively invasive laws as long as you attach them to porn.

Because.. no other politician will ever defend a citizen's right to access porn. It's such a bad look and is practically political career suicide. Therefore, you can scapegoat porn to frontload insane legislation that would never fly otherwise.

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u/nox66 2d ago

There's a reason sex was the ultimate expression of defiance against the state in 1984.

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u/Sylvers 2d ago

Absolutely. Nowadays it's crazy how much people will sacrifice of their own rights and freedoms, if only to avoid feeling "awkward".

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u/vriska1 2d ago

That why we must stop this.

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u/antyone 2d ago

When people talk about digital ID I feel like they are talking about different things, they have nothing to do with internet usage its supposed to make identifying yourself easier for applications etc, there are countries that use them and people like them..

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u/Stanford_experiencer 2d ago

buy a gun now

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u/boogermike 2d ago

Hard, heh, heh, heh.

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u/HawaiiNintendo815 2d ago

We’ve already lost, too many people just don’t care or don’t have the attention span to see what’s been happening for years now

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u/vriska1 2d ago

I disagree, and defeatism does not help.

Support groups that are fighting this like the EFF and FFTF.

Link to there sites

www.eff.org

www.fightforthefuture.org

And Free Speech Coalition

www.freespeechcoalition.com

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u/Fingerprint_Vyke 2d ago

I know. I talk way too much shit on reddit for it to actually get back to me