Adam Dalliance on Nostr: > Can’t we just have age-proving tokens that prove age not ID? Nope. If such tokens ...

> Can’t we just have age-proving tokens that prove age not ID?

Nope.

If such tokens exist I’d be pretty tempted to sell them to teenagers myself, and I’m not even trying to get the teenagers into bed.

If the age-proof methods prove who you are, they are dystopian surveillance systems and an advertising corporation’s dream.

If they do not prove who you are, they are sellable on the black markets in exchange for whatever teenagers have that grown ups want.

There is no way you can identify children in order to treat their accounts differently without creating a massive database of all internet users which is an identity-theft honey-pot, and is already leading to constant leaks of user data from terrible companies.

Those companies promising they can do the impossible and age-gate the internet are the very ones profiting from abuse and internet surveillance already.

They are the ones feeding your kids sexist racist right wing propaganda and depression from their algorithms then using the money to bribe politicians to entrench their position.