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tardibear | 3 months ago

> Manufacturers of operating systems, tech associations, and the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) sharply criticize the draft law. They consider the filtering requirement, in particular, to be technically and practically unfeasible, as well as legally questionable.

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vmaurin|3 months ago

* you add an HTTP header saying "I am a kid" * porn web servers read and handle this headers * if they don't (easy to test), they get fined

It is easy to implement, easy to monitor, and will probably just work if the government do the effort to monitor and enforce it. If not, it will just be an other DNT header

trallnag|3 months ago

What stops a kid from saying "I am an adult" via this header without some draconian client-side enforcement?

woodpanel|3 months ago

Exactly. I'd even go one step further: If it takes access to Pr0n for kids to become really sophisticated in tech, how is this not a win too?