We’ve been covering Australia’s under-16 social media ban since before it went into effect, first noting the confusion and obvious implementation problems as pretty much everyone realized it was a total mess, and then documenting how the ban was actively harming kids with disabilities by cutting them off from critical support communities.

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[–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)
  1. There are ways to do things anonymously while preserving actual checks against a central database, like with zero-knowledge proof.
  2. There’s a living person doing that check, which isn’t super practical for things online. Do I go to the nearest 7-11 to confirm my Pornhub login?
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  • [–] [S] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)
    1. It's not full proof.
    1. There is a human element here too. Parents. Certain groups of people are constantly shouting that parent choices are not taken into consideration, yet they are happy with outsoursing their responsibilies on the rest of the population.
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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago*

    What ZKPs don’t do is mitigate verifier abuse or limit their requests, such as over-asking for information they don’t need or limiting the number of times they request your age over time.

    API rate limits exist.

    They don’t prevent websites or applications from collecting other kinds of observable personally identifiable information like your IP address or other device information while interacting with them.

    Exactly like the lady at 7-11. Also why EU implemented GDPR.

    These are Linux libertarian takes, I’m more interested in countries being ran effectively.

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