[ExI] Internet age verification spreads worldwide

[spike at rainier66.com]

>...> On Behalf Of Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat
Subject: Re: [ExI] Internet age verification spreads worldwide

On 06/09/2025 07:07, Adrian Tymes wrote:
>>... The analogy to sports doesn't hold up.

>... Age verification on the internet is an extension of that kind of
stupidity.

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Ben

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Hi Ben, ja.  I will skip past the risk that we introduced an existential
crisis to our species by our collective internet de-emphasizing standard
family models, introducing not just the threat of actual literal extinction
of our species, that is bad thing of course.  But we have worn out sex as a
sales tool, one that has worked for so long and so well.  Mercy.

Second pointless aside: imagine...what if... you were the model for
Michelangelo 's David.  I would be so damn insulted!  He carved what he
actually saw!  Wouldn'ta cost Mr. Angelo a damn thing to carve me a little
favor down there for the ages.  He had enough marble there to start with in
order to create a kindhearted lie.  Now tourists will be parading by for
centuries, making fun.  Cruel-ass artist he is.  Harrumph.

Ben I agree with your notion.  I have been hanging around on the internet
most of my adult life, since its pre-1990s text versions.  This sudden age
verification jazz is the biggest new and worrisome change since HTML changed
everything, then in 1999 when Google exploded on the scene.  

This all has me wondering if that age verification notion will be sufficient
to revive the struggling old-fashioned porn-on-DVD business model.  And if
so, how one must navigate the more difficult question of where and how to
invest, to most effectively make a cubic buttload off of it.  Difficult
questions for our times are these.  

In the meantime, one parting shot with a modicum of actual non-silliness:
this age verification business is something in which I have so-far flatly
refused to participate for privacy reasons, at the expense of my favorite
old entertainment sites, such as... em... the historic digital archived
National Geographics.  Hey, it's all we had back in the 60s, and we only had
the paper editions, in the actual library.  We suffered, but we made do.
Until the librarians caught us and started blacking out the photos with
electrical tape, which won't come off those glossy pages.  

But... it is easy enough to imagine if this hasn't already happened: these
internet porn protective measures might quietly filter away or forbid access
to medical information.  Think about that please.

spike