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Conservative government would require ID to watch porn: Poilievre (toronto.citynews.ca)

submitted 10 months ago by L4s to c/technology

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Conservative government would require ID to watch porn: Poilievre::OTTAWA — A future Conservative government would change the law to require that porn websites verify the age of users to prevent minors from accessing the content, Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre signalled on Wednesday. When asked whether his government would require porn websites to verify the age of users, Poilievre gave a one-word answer: “Yes.” […]

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[–] General_Effort 19 points 10 months ago

I don't see that previous generations had a better attitude towards sexuality. I rather think it was worse.

Age verification can only be seriously enforced through very intrusive surveillance of internet activity. You'd need a good reason to justify that, which doesn't exist. How about we give all minors cameras to put in their bedrooms, so that CPS can check in on them? Too intrusive? Well, that actually might help against child abuse, which is a real issue.