[triceratops]

"Don't let them win. Don't verify your age. Don't give up your identity. If you absolutely must, find one of the numerous age verification services and pay in Monero."

Better yet, how about - "call your representatives"?

Some nerds, for lack of a better term, think crypto and cryptography are the answers to every privacy problem. The only way to fix society and the law is by engaging with those things. Not sidestepping them with cryptography, an unscalable approach in any case.

I'm deeply pessimistic about the future. The only group competent enough to oppose identity verification has its head in the sand.

[dopidopHN2]

Have you been to a city council meeting lately ? Ever?

I'm trying to push for surveillance regulation where I live. I'm there monthly.

Calling your representative is the best way to realise that they don't give a fuck. Yesterday I was editing a clip of one of them lying overtly. It will be a minor inconveniences.

what we call democracy is a dog and ponies show.

So maybe cryptography is not that ridiculous, after all

[godwinson__4-8]

Of course the system has a rather obvious remediation for that. You could also run for office or find a kindred spirit to support.

Trying to one to one with a representative or a council just sends them a signal to not care. You're one of n constituents. Showing up to the city council meeting without bringing an exponential curve of people with you over a short enough amount of time in support of your cause simply confirms to your representatives your cause is marginal.

If you are already cutting clips you might as well bite the bullet and run for office. Best of luck with your foray in democracy!

[rockskon]

Not every lawmaker is the same and there's more than one way to get a lawmaker's attention.

Get more people with you. Or convince a group that's previously established trust in your jurisdiction to join you in speaking out. Or find out what causes the policymakers do care about and think of a compelling way to frame arguments against age verification in those terms. Heck - if you can get a local government agency to officially back you up, all the better.

There's more to politics than just going to town hall meetings or sending emails or making phone calls!

[triceratops]

> Calling your representative is the best way to realise that they don't give a fuck

That just means not enough people did it.

> So maybe cryptography is not that ridiculous, after all

Until they make that illegal. What'll you do then?

It. Doesn't. Scale.

[rockskon]

Law alone cannot fix it. Tech alone cannot fix it.

If we wish to preserve the values we grew up with, we need both.

[microgpt]

Law can fix 90% of it. Tech can fix 10%.

[rockskon]

As cynical as it sounds given its frequent use in marketing and often inappropriate use in legal circles, securing what data is collected is important too.

Raise the bar for a data breach. It has value. Much more value if the law did a much better job of restricting what is collected in the first place and its dissemination.

[microgpt]

Punishing companies for data breaches will solve more data breaches than any amount of encryption.

[rockskon]

I find that particularly unrealistic that we can arrive at a good place solely by fining companies for data breaches.