Young people should be able to access information, speak to each other and to the world, play games, and express themselves online without the government making decisions about what speech is permissible. But in one of the latest misguided attempts to protect children online, internet users of all...
  • onion_dude@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    2 days ago

    Has anyone got any half decent ideas for how to improve age verification? Obvs without this draconian shit.

    I had a thought once about doing it with NFTs, where a company could independently verify you with certain metadata, like ‘is human’ or ‘is over 18’ etc. Then you get issued your token, and these sites can verify you without de-anoninising you.

    Not sure if that’s a naff idea, but would be interested to know if anyone’s got anything better

    • mememuseum@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      16 hours ago

      It doesn’t need to exist at all. Parents should take responsibility for their children’s internet usage.

    • Fiery@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      11·
      2 days ago

      The EU has something in the works with zero knowledge proofs. Which would be a good way to do this.

      I still don’t agree on the fact that this needs doing at all… But at least it’s not as bad as the UK’s half-baked nonsense