Why is this being downvoted? I thought of it as a self-critique of the USians. Also, another reminder on how these pundits almost always avoid to say it – capitalism sucks human dignity dry.

If you excuse the “medium”, this article has interesting milestones: https://medium.com/the-ferenstein-wire/the-birth-and-death-of-privacy-3-000-years-of-history-in-50-images-614c26059e

Various countries have tried to implement this – or hint at introducing it, for example Canada and UK recently – but there has always been friction in the whole process. It seems to me that proliferation of digital legal ID, especially during the pandemic, has oiled the processed and such a proposal will be easier to implement. Perhaps not even in the way it is described here (akin to checkpoint analogy) but rather as a whole system process (proof once and we will decide what you access, perhaps at the device set up point, using biometric ID linked to government issued legal ID). In the end, therefore, the adult content (in this case), will be filtered even before you get there if you are a minor. An anchoring background process, not necessarily a checkpoint.

This is a follow up on https://baraza.africa/post/7209

Adding blockchain as we currently know it into fediverse is a false start, IMHO.

And when you drill down to their so called value proposition, it is apparently to help human empathy scale. That word scale lies at the heart of almost all immoral business practices. It is a alter for “how do we spend as little input as possible to get as much as possible”.

This community is reserved for announcing new communities and admin tasks. Consider c/privacy, may be? You should also link to the original article. Your link here is to a copy-pasta website.