Post #2021709 · Elektrine

2026-01-16 11:22 UTC

@endolexi @Tutanota https://soatok.blog/2025/07/31/age-verification-doesnt-need-to-be-a-privacy-footgun/ Very much technically possible and doable. But that's not the goal of "Age Verification" that's being presented. They already know it does fuck all. They're not even hiding it behind the "think of the children" anymore because the "liberals" will eat their shit up by shovels because EVEN THEY consider children to be things and not people. Fascists don't win by being stronger (they're wusses) but by "so called liberals" being idiots and jumping on their train.

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@endolexi@social.vivaldi.net 2026-01-16 12:16

@rawenwolf Thank you, also for the link! "zero knowledge" seems like exactly the phrase I was looking for @Tutanota

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@vindo@mastodon.social 2026-01-16 12:22

@rawenwolf @endolexi @Tutanota i wonder if someone could (or maybe it already exists) just build a safe pluggable API for age verification. No IDs stored, multi-country support, just returns a flag for a given unique user id token if they have been verified 18+/21+ or not. Do it once and use across multiple sites ideally

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@katzenberger@tldr.nettime.org 2026-01-16 12:32

@rawenwolf Ummm, no: »We could do something similar here for verifying that a user is 18 or older. We would need existing identity verification services (e.g., ID.me in the USA) to vend PrivacyPass tokens that can be redeemed on third party websites.« There is no way the tracking and linking of such tokens could be prevented, for sure. Or to make me trust that such a service doesn't. They might be ordered to, under some jurisdictions, coupled with a gag order. @endolexi @Tutanota

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