Kanadas Gesetzesentwurf zur Altersüberprüfung für Pornos ist ein gefährlicher Abgrund für ein restriktives Internet
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-canada-porn-age-verification-slippery-slope-restrictive-internet/
Kanadas Gesetzesentwurf zur Altersüberprüfung für Pornos ist ein gefährlicher Abgrund für ein restriktives Internet
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-canada-porn-age-verification-slippery-slope-restrictive-internet/
8 Kommentare
If the Liberals can’t get past stupid and counterproductive regulation of big tech, we might be a little bit screwed here.
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A similar law that did pass in the UK seems to be extremely unpopular. Starmer and Labour may as well be dead in the water. Lets not make the same mistake.
It’s not a „slippery slope“ in the sense that it is 100% the long-term goal. More restrictive internet, with more control over internet companies. Nothing is hidden here. It’s just that people are sooooo stuck up on the current free-for-all model that introducing this will take a lot of time, effort and education. And yes, age-verification for porn is just a relatively easy use case to get the ball rolling on some things.
It is not going to work.
**Location spoofing**
VPN : All your traffic is redirected to a server outside your country, making you appear as you come from another country where there is no age verification law.
SSH Tunneling : You ask a friend on Discord who lives in a country with no age verification to type a couple lines of code in command prompt; you can then use his home internet access as if your computer or smartphone was inside his house.
Free Proxies : Tons of free proxies online can connect you to any websites even if they are banned in Canada or if they require age verification in Canada.
Tor : The infamous Onion Router, basically routes all your internet traffic on a network of randomly selected nodes, 3 of them, to make you anonymous online, as long as the last node (exit node) is in a country with no age verification, you will have access to anything you want. Tor is so good, it even bypasses restrictions put on school and work networks.
**Identity spoofing**
Borrowing ID : In systems which verify identity based on photo ID, just borrow someone else’s photo ID.
Sleeping parents : Kids can just wait until the parents, who have already age verified their computer/phone, to go to sleep and borrow their „porn unlocked“ computer or phone.
Asking an older friend who is 18+ : What about that 18 yo next-door neighbor? He is cool and won’t mind, right…
**Find porn on unregulated sites**
File hosting services : Kids today already do this; they trade with each other on Discord links to MEGA, Dropbox or Google Drive accounts that are filled with porn images and videos. Then they can download the videos to their devices and keep them for as long as they want. There are hundreds of file hosting services out there, most in complaisant jurisdictions.
**It will expose our kids to even more dangers**
this law opens up an opportunity to all kid diddlers out there to become „official porn purveyors“ to the masses. How long before child molesters online exchange porn videos and images in exchange for sexual favors, either done online or in person?
Think about Prohibition in the Unites States and how it made organized crime filthy rich by being the only people able to provide alcohol to the masses.
**Every easy solution to a complex problem is always the wrong solution.**
Does “a restrictive internet” mean regulations on the massive social media giants that control our lives way more than we’re prepared to admit? Because I think that sort of “restrictive internet” where we become more aware of the algorithms that run our lives — and get more control back from them — are long overdue
If the govt pushes this, they’ll need to take ownership of the validation process (nationalize it, don’t rely on a private company), as well as actively monitor and handle related identity theft issues that might occur (no one should have to deal with the fallout themselves if leaks occur; if the government feels legislation like this is necessary they must be the stakeholder on ensuring the identification verification process is secure and remediate any leaks).
They will also need to be prompt and active in ensuring no charter rights breaches are caused as a result of such restrictions (such as restricting LGBTQ content and communities behind an age gate regardless of the maturity of content, etc.)
This is just a blatant attempt at a power grab. **I would be glad to sink ANY government over attempting this bill alone**. There is no way to do this safely, or ethically. People will lose privacy, leaks will happen, people will be blackmailed, people will get outed before they’re ready, lose jobs, lose housing, get „hate crimed“, commit suicide etc. Their blood and suffering will be on the hands of any MPs who vote for it, and they’d deserve any retaliation that may come in response to it.
I’m going to say it, authoritarianism (and authoritarians) are worse than almost any amount of hypothetical pedophiles. Kids don’t need any exceptional amount of „protection“ beyond their parents being active/involved, and keeping their eyes open. The world is going down an authoritarian shitter right now, and I don’t want our country having any part of it. Once a government takes a new „power“ they’ll almost never give it up.