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Identity and age verification is a very important tool against revenge porn and exploitation so I personally welcome it, whoever pushes for it.



How would this stop that? This would only stop the sale of known revenge porn. I don't think most of it makes it way on the internet through sale. It gets posted anonymously on porn sites.

Revenge porn is already illegal. If someone were to sell it, the problem with that scenario is not that those people were able to exchange currency, and I don't like the idea of setting up more barriers on the ability to give someone money.


> I don't think most of it makes it way on the internet through sale. It gets posted anonymously on porn sites.

Yes, and as far as I know you can't do that on websites like OF or PH, due to them requiring you to verify the identity of everyone involved in the video.

Thus, it's impossible now to upload content without the consent of everyone involved, at least on those 2 (major) websites.


> at least on those 2 (major) websites

So... you didn't stop it. You only stopped it on a couple websites by making all content creators to provide identity verification

The only way to actually stop it is completely remove anonymity from the internet. Which is a nightmare scenario for many reasons. But it seems to be the current direction we're going.


Revenge porn and exploitation are already a nightmare scenario. Only maybe it doesn't involve you, so you don't think it's a problem?


I never said it wasn't a problem.

But destroying the internet by ending all concepts of privacy and anonymity isn't a solution though. It's what every government wants, and they'll give you whatever sob story is necessary to trick people into thinking it's for their own good. It's not.




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