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When No ID Means No Internet: Age Verification and the Right to Access Information (www.eff.org)
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Age verification proposals are often presented as a simple tradeoff: sacrifice a little privacy to better safeguard children online. But that framing overlooks a more fundamental question. What happens to people who cannot verify their age at all? This is particularly a problem when users are required to prove their age with identity documents.

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[–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm thinking, “How do I keep my information out of the hands of centralized database looking for people spreading discontent?”

On a public forum?

A siloed server with good security could lack anonymity, but because the data is not centralized, the feds would have to take a special interest to create an account, and because there would be so many of these instances, it would be a very time consuming process.

Kinda depends how it's hosted. You don't need an account to mine AWS if you can just pick through the backend.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    If it's hosted on AWS with a centrally accessible backend, it's not siloed.

    The idea is that you can have access, but there's a BARRIER to access for very little gain--the messages of a few hundred users at most.

    And if you want to be a dick about it, you can even rate limit to avoid quick and easy data scraping.

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