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Pornhub is urging tech giants to enact device-based age verification (arstechnica.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/technology@beehaw.org
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[–] 37 points 11 months ago* (5 children)

Have devices do the blocking for kids by having sites required to identify themselves as adult oriented in a standard way. The bad sites aren't going to enact the requirements for people to identify themselves any more than they would enact the requirements for sites to identify themselves to devices but it eliminates the tracking of adults and blocking of legitimate content to children with parental permission like sexual education sites by allowing exception lists for parents.

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  • [–] 38 points 11 months ago* (2 children)

    They already do flag themselves and have done for at least 20 years. But apparently most parents are dipshits who dont install content blockers.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Is this right? Out of curiosity, how do these sites flag themselves as content for adults?

    Obviously, this is the solution. Sites that do this correctly, and software that detects the metadata. Parents are the ones that need to choose the correct software and enable the correct settings.

    Sites that do not set the correct metadata are legible to be banned by authorities.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    It’s called RTA and it’s a tag that goes in the header of each html page to be restricted. All “mainstream” US adult operators back the scheme as a sort of self-regulation.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    None of this shit is ever going to stop kids from finding porn (or anything else they're determined to find). I owe my career in IT to figuring out how to circumvent all the parental control things my parents put on the family pc and cover my tracks. All you can do is supervise them as best you can and teach them about being responsible and what's real vs imaginary.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    Exactly, so give parents the tools to filter and make it their responsibility to police their children. Don't make everyone give up their privacy and sometimes, security, and safety to shitty corporations who will eventually leak all of their data. Which is exactly what both I and pornhub are saying.

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