The end game here is to require ID for social media in order to suppress dissent. This is an easy first step due to the longstanding controversy surrounding pornography.
It's all about control.
this post was submitted on 02 Dec 2025
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I'm not against proper age verifications as such, it would be like carding people in a store or a bar. But I just haven't seen an implementation of it that isn't prone to being a privacy nightmare and surveillance state shit.
I know there's some systems that generate a token that verify that you are 18 and you give that to the site, so neither side directly meet so to say. The site knows only that you have a valid token for being 18 and the app or service you use to generate the token knows just that you wanted to token for something. I think Spain was figuring out a system like that.
When you are carded at a club the staff doesn't scan your card and keep it on file. They simply look at it and return it.
As someone who worked similar jobs and would have had to look at tons of IDs every day I can assure, I dont have the time or interest in remembering all of them.
That's really what the whole rest of my reply was about. We need a system more like carding and less like giving them copy of your passport.
Why does everyone in the US card everyone over something ostensibly about age?
It's never been about age.
I've seen a seventy year old man with a foot long white beard get carded and refused, while he was stone cold sober.
Do you think he can't handle his liquor? He's seventy. He knows what it does.
They might have some rule about carding everyone
And that's bullshit! If the rule is about age, and they enforce it about everyone, it's not fucking about age, it's about paperwork. Are you a jew? or someone else we can throw in the camps
There's a lot of bars/restaurants that do.
I have literally been refused service because the only ID I had is a passport, and those barcodes wouldn't scan into their system.
It's Papers, please, and it's fucking bullshit
They denied your passport? That is like literally the highest level of ID you can present! Holy fuck!
Tell me about it. I've also had security goons dive deep into my grandpa's ID, that was issued in 1922, and give me a pass, so you know. anything is possible
welcome to america, the most fascist state in the world