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submitted 9 months ago by Salix@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

The Spanish government has a plan to prevent kids from watching porn online: Meet the porn passport.

Officially (and drily) called the Digital Wallet Beta (Cartera Digital Beta), the app Madrid unveiled on Monday would allow internet platforms to check whether a prospective smut-watcher is over 18. Porn-viewers will be asked to use the app to verify their age. Once verified, they'll receive 30 generated “porn credits” with a one-month validity granting them access to adult content. Enthusiasts will be able to request extra credits.

You have to request more porn credits from the government if you need more? Don't want the government to be tracking this data of you. This is a privacy issue

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[-] MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk 13 points 9 months ago

And then when it doesn't work because of the laws of nature, they can block filesharing sites on account of porning kids up without requiring porn credits.

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 6 points 9 months ago

Ok tinfoil hat time.

Perhaps this government anti-porn law stuff is backed by people who actually want to dismantle government altogether. And not in a fun Communist way but in a privatize everything, corporate serfdom way.

By pushing for the government to do stupid and unpopular things, they can get people mad at the very concept of government. They can then use that to dismantle things like nationalized health care, fire departments, whatever.

[-] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

I've got to get me a Spanish porn passport. I likes me some big bootie Spanish girls.

[-] doctortofu@reddthat.com 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It's always porn, isn't it? We don't need to protect children from misinformation, fascism, violence, racism, discrimination or exploitation on the internet, it's always just porn for some reason...

[-] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 4 points 9 months ago

Yes, porn and not giving away all of their data to keep them safe

[-] Varven@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Just image asking someone for a corn passport

[-] Majestic@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I wish they would just push all the big mainstream porn sites to remove the most abusive misogynistic content rather than slapping these checks on everything.

Also this will never be okay until there is a zero knowledge version that means neither the government, nor the sites, nor any other party can establish a given person's habits which is probably not something they'll ever do because tracking is probably part of the point.

I'm not a fan of the easy access to porn that kids have or the proliferation of the industry in general but I am worried that as part of this harmless things like erotic roleplaying websites will be swept up as part of it and well I use those. And their point is not porn though some people host and share porn as part of it (which is why it'd get swept up with it eventually probably), it's about writing, smutty, erotic writing. And I'd rather not have to tie my identity to my desires to roleplay out an elf who ends up making “friends” with the wolf-men tribe to my real life identity (I'm not claiming that's something I do there but it's an example of something that would be kind of embarrassing for others to know and it's far from the weirdest stuff that goes on in places like that).

Government having credits for how often I could say log in and continue a long-term erotic writing campaign with someone is just weird but that's the end point of this kind of thing. Having credits seems not helpful anyways, the true porn addicts are just going to download stuff then share it in private forums, discords, p2p, etc. If the point is to stop kids from accessing this the credits thing seems odd.

[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 3 points 9 months ago

Lol most porn is made in the US. How is Spain supposed to regulate US porn streaming companies showing content filmed and distributed by US companies?

[-] LordCrom@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

There's always DVDs of this stuff.... Doesn't have to be online.

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[-] AncientFutureNow@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Sounds like someone in the Spanish govt is familiar with adult bookstore glory holes.

porn credits. gtfh

[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago

Enthusiasm is funny ha

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

People live in Spain?

Also I'm just imagining the look on on the store clerks face when that one person comes in to buy porn credits for the 5th time that day.

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