[Mechanical9]

I don't really see what aspect of this situation involves a false sense of victimhood, unless you are referring to the multimillionaire founder who is unwilling to add age verification to their website.

[tyg13]

How is age verification supposed to work? I don't suppose users of the site are going to provide legal documents just to use it. It's tantamount to shutting it down.

I ask because there was a similar moral outrage around age verification for access to porn sites that I recall being a big issue a while ago. I don't recall exactly how it played out in court, but it appeared to amount to nothing, which I can't help but to feel was due to the fact that mechanisms to verify someone's age online are either trivial to circumvent or present such a high barrier to entry that no reasonable user would surmount it.

[intrasight]

It's supposed to work perfectly. That was easy. Next?

But in all seriousness, age verification will soon be a legal reality. It's only "hard" because it's optional. When the government makes it required, they'll also have to make it possible - or those laws won't stand up in court. It'll probably require government issued digital IDs and MFA hardware.

[sepoes]

age verification wouldve killed it. most legitimate users use the site because they can just open the site and start talking without sign up

[gruez]

>unless you are referring to the multimillionaire founder who is unwilling to add age verification to their website.

Mandated ID checks are fine as long as we're using it to bludgeon the privileged in the process?