...With your approach, the website knows who you are, knows what kind of porn you watch, because your identity is tied to your web browsing, and can take advantage of that to show very specific targeted porn ads for you when you visit other websites, can use it to extort you, etc.
Mandating an approach like that would violate California's constitutional right to privacy, and any OS vendor or website that tried to do it that way could be held civilly or criminally liable.
No, with my approach the user would get bounced over to their chosen age verification provider (their bank), they'd authenticate, then the bank would give them an auth token signed by the bank with a claim that says they are '18 or over' and that's it. No name, no address, no nothing EXCEPT that they are indeed a legal adult. The browser would present that token to the over-18 only website which could verify the digital signature on it and trust the claim in it and let them in.
That's rich coming from the batty boy of the unelected, unaccountable establishment elites. His entire existence is predicated on him doing whatever the CIA, etc. want him to do for them or OpenAI would still be a non-profit!
Unconstitutional orders? We didn't see you, Sam, taking on the censorship state when they wanted OpenAI to censor and propagandize! How "constitutional" is it for the state to censor what they decide is "harmful", "misinformation", "malinformation" or "hate speech"? It's 1000% Unconstitutional because we have this little thing called the 1st Amendment!
"generally safe"? If public health experts think mRNA vaccine tech is generally safe, they can't think straight. Given the way our immune systems work, it's generally UNSAFE to make all sorts of critical tissues and organs in your body produce a protein or structure you want your immune system to lock onto as a pathogen because your immune system can easily get (permanently!!) programmed to attack your healthy tissues and organs (and we know that happens).
Wake up propagandized morons...you are cattle to the elites. They will tell you any line of BS to make money off of you regardless of the consequences.
We don't even know at this point if the health impacts caused by ultra processed foods are from the ultra processed food or if it's the preservatives/additives they contain which kill/affect the gut microbiome which then causes the health impacts. It might be nice to know which one it is.
Like maybe some studies that add preservatives/additives to a whole/unprocessed food diet and see if you get the same negative health impacts? That might tell us it's more about the preservatives/additives (which are anti-microbial) and less about the food.
This is similar to the carnivore diet thing. Ketosis is great, yes, but do we know if it's just the ketosis (and fewer allergens going in), or if it's also the changing of the balance of power in the gut by feeding the meat microbes and starving the non-meat microbes (that live off of sugar and starches, etc.) that is the source of some of the "miraculous" benefits?
Notice how the official response of Meta isn't "we can't and aren't looking at people's WhatsApp messages" it's basically "the end to end encryption is real people!" (strawman). We know the e2e encryption is real, but that's not the issue!
Since the messages are unencrypted at the endpoint, the app just needs to have an api that HQ can call and make the app search or return the unencrypted content to HQ. It's quite simple and doesn't mean the encryption isn't end-to-end. Just go to one of the ends to get the cleartext data. Duh.
If this is what Meta is doing, then it's kinda similar to how the Apple CSAM detection features work. They don't send your photos to HQ or violate the e2e encryption of your iCloud data (if you turned that on), they just have the endpoint (phone) do the detection on the images and send back object ids to HQ.
Established technology tends to persist in the face of new technology. -- G. Blaauw, one of the designers of System 360
