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johnnienaked commented on Why isn't online age verification just like showing your ID in person?   eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12... · Posted by u/hn_acker
saghm · 2 days ago
Fair enough! I misunderstood your previous comment as implying that measures like this were needed due to the unlikelihood of parents enforcing this. (There's probably a joke somewhere in here about "parent" comments as well, but I'm not clever enough to figure it out at the moment).
johnnienaked · 21 hours ago
Absolutely not im never verifying my ID ever on the internet and I think it's not only an extreme overreach but will end up being ineffective as well.

While I think children need to be protected online, this won't but neither will trying to get parents to parent better

johnnienaked commented on Why isn't online age verification just like showing your ID in person?   eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12... · Posted by u/hn_acker
catapart · 2 days ago
That's kind of the point of all this. They force websites to enact the verification because they have leverage over businesses that they don't have over citizens, and then they expect that the citizens will hate it so much that they don't go to the "bad" sites at all. "Thank you for your cooperation!"

ETA: (accidental submit; sorry) I'm in the same boat! Not entering my ID information into any website, much less ones they've got on the list. And so they've successfully boxed us in. At least for me, I intend to raise hell about it aside from just not sharing PIA, but I don't have any delusions of it's effect.

johnnienaked · 2 days ago
The internet as well as Facebook and most AI all used to be DARPA/CIA/InQTel projects so this isn't surprising
johnnienaked commented on Why isn't online age verification just like showing your ID in person?   eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12... · Posted by u/hn_acker
saghm · 2 days ago
No, I think what they want is not to have the rest of us have to jump through hoops (and sacrifice privacy) to achieve the same thing. Some of us don't have kids (or live in a household with any), so passing a law that potentially limits our internet access to solve a "problem" that already is dubious is ridiculous.
johnnienaked · 2 days ago
I couldn't agree more
johnnienaked commented on French supermarket's Christmas advert is worldwide hit (without AI) [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=Na9Vm... · Posted by u/gbugniot
latexr · 2 days ago
> I don't think it's only from a cynic point of view - the question "if meat is murder, am I a bad person if I literally can't survive without it?" is a fair and interesting one.

I think the argument is “meat is murder because you can survive without it”. Maybe that doesn’t work for the wolf, but I mean, it’s literally a story being made up for a child, and animals in those are allegories for humans.

I can choose to not eat meat and live healthily, but I’m not going to feed only vegetables to a pet cat, who needs something different. To each what they need, as ethically as possible. When you can minimise harm, do.

johnnienaked · 2 days ago
You can survive without a lot of things. Some people survived eating dead bodies on a mountain in the Andes. When people reference life quality they generally don't talk in terms of "survival."
johnnienaked commented on French supermarket's Christmas advert is worldwide hit (without AI) [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=Na9Vm... · Posted by u/gbugniot
ryandrake · 2 days ago
It’s probably a mistake to read too much into it but I can’t help but notice the McDonald’s ad is kind of a mirror held up to all the things that American culture has been progressing into: cynical, mean, isolated, artificial... whatever the opposite of “wholesome” is. Totally off-key for what Christmas is supposed to stand for. Christmas (at least the secular holiday) is supposed to be about kindness, putting differences aside, enjoying people and family, and the commercial was pretty much the opposite of that.
johnnienaked · 2 days ago
I don't think a commercial for a fast food joint can reflect an entire nation let alone the other 174 it has restaurants in.
johnnienaked commented on Why isn't online age verification just like showing your ID in person?   eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12... · Posted by u/hn_acker
miguelbemartin · 2 days ago
In my opinion, access to internet should always be behind a device controlled by an adult. And it should be this adult's responsibility to set appropriate restrictions for minors.
johnnienaked · 2 days ago
You want parents to parent? God speed and good luck
johnnienaked commented on Why isn't online age verification just like showing your ID in person?   eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12... · Posted by u/hn_acker
johnnienaked · 2 days ago
I'm never verifying my ID to access anything on the internet. I'll just stop using it.
johnnienaked commented on Israel used Palantir technologies in pager attack in Lebanon   the307.substack.com/p/rev... · Posted by u/cramsession
johnnienaked · 3 days ago
If this happened to us would we invade Iraq again?

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