Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech
3 hours ago
- #Government Surveillance
- #Digital Privacy
- #Age Verification
- Age verification regulations in various countries are presented as protecting children but serve as a means to tie online speech to real identities.
- Law enforcement seeks to determine 'what happened' and 'who did it', with age verification systems automating identity attribution from digital accounts to physical IDs.
- Traditional methods like OSINT or subpoenas require effort and don't scale, while age verification allows quick, automated identification of individuals, regardless of criminal activity.
- There is irony in elites pushing age verification to 'save the children' amid concerns about their own behaviors, suggesting potential hypocrisy.
- Once widespread, such systems could lead to automated repercussions for inconvenient speech, similar to copyright enforcement letters from ISPs.
- The advice is to avoid age verification, protect identity, and if necessary, use anonymous payment methods like Monero for verification services.