Big companies making money from #porn are complaining that they have to implement age restrictions. They are a $73 billion industry built on the internet and software. They can easily fund the creation of privacy preserving age verification systems on their sites. It is not that hard. I think they actually don't care about the privacy of their users. The websites should do the age verification, then access methods like VPNs are irrelevant.
https://www.politico.eu/article/porn-industry-austrian-marcello-bravo-tech-rules-eu-policy/
@abacabadabacaba I agree with EFF that using credit cards, driver's licenses, etc is problematic. That's my point, there are well known methods for exchanging authentication privately. That industry has the money to develop software they need.
That industry also has a long and wide track record of all sorts of abuse and exploitation. Instead of earnestly engaging with the real harms, they are just fighting this to protect their profits. EFF should know better to be joining that effort.
@abacabadabacaba It is pretty clear that most parents around the world do believe that major harms come from the internet and that's why so many are supporting these kinds of measures.
And implementing an age-verification service that is provably private is really not that hard, especially for a $75 billion industry.
Tor and zero-knowledge proofs are well known existing techniques that are enough to do this. It could work in the browser like how WebAuthn does.