“X has indicated since 2024 that it accepts the distribution of pornographic content. It must therefore be treated as such,” Digital Minister Clara Chappaz’s office said.
This is treating Twitter as a pornographic website, which the new French law puts more requirements on. If it was just a “I am over 18” button, I don’t think pornhub would pull out(pun unintended). It’s easy to bypass with a VPN or tor, but are you going to pull that out just to doom scroll for a hate fix? Maybe, but that’s a choice a lot of people are going to have to make.
I’m all for making it exceedingly less convenient for people become radicalized, personally. Age verification isn’t a magic bullet, but still very much worth doing.
This is treating Twitter as a pornographic website, which the new French law puts more requirements on. If it was just a “I am over 18” button, I don’t think pornhub would pull out(pun unintended). It’s easy to bypass with a VPN or tor, but are you going to pull that out just to doom scroll for a hate fix? Maybe, but that’s a choice a lot of people are going to have to make.
I’m all for making it exceedingly less convenient for people become radicalized, personally. Age verification isn’t a magic bullet, but still very much worth doing.
Additionally it’s convenient tooling to have in place for other undesirable behaviour, as the EU is getting Orbanised.
What you’re saying is that the government should control access to information, so that people will hold the correct ideology.
I don’t think that’s a game that a liberal democracy can win.
Nice straw man.