Madrid unveils a digital wallet to help porn platforms verify users’ ages.

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

  • jabjoe@feddit.ukEnglish
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    2 months ago

    So teens learn about Tor & VPNs. This stuff doesn’t work. The higher you put the skills to get access, the more they will learn. Nothing motivates teens more than access to adult stuff. Maybe this is really a tech literacy policy.

  • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    Kids can torrent my dude. Been doing it since I was like 13, and that’s only because before that I was using limewire, then frostwire, then bearshare, then I found torrents because TPB took over. I’ve been pirating since I was like 9.

    That is to say: This dumb ass bullshit isn’t even going to work.

  • Emmie@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    At least it will raise tech literacy among youth. If it isn’t as easy and would require some thinking that’s already better than 99% of homework.

    • istanbullu@lemmy.ml
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      2 months ago

      Those kids will install a VPN faster than this bill goes through the Spanish parliament.

      • Emmie@lemm.ee
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        2 months ago

        Even something as straightforward nowadays as VPN install can educate a person about cybersecurity as a side effect.

        Thing is most stuff is simply too easy too acquire nowadays. No effort. No thought. Just endless stream of dopamine that is too addicting to even bother inquiring about how the very thing you are using works.

        The victory of convenience will defeat us. There has to be some effort needed to acquire things otherwise they lose any value.

  • NoneYa@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    it’s for the children!

    They said as they erode more freedom/privacy for the general population.

  • doctortofu@reddthat.com
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    2 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…

  • golden_zealot@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Wow good job Spain.

    I guess this works because email doesn’t exist.

    I guess this works because file sharing applications and websites don’t exist.

    I guess this works because VPN’s free and paid don’t exist.

    I guess this works because Tor, i2p, Freenet, and Yggdrasil don’t exist.

    I guess this works because torrenting doesn’t exist.

    I guess this works because black markets don’t exist.

    I guess this works because chat applications don’t exist.

    To be a fly on the wall of these government meetings where they talk about this shit would surely be the funniest fucking thing in the world.

    • themurphy@lemmy.ml
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      2 months ago

      You are right, it’s really stupid.

      But it’s also stupid not to consider, that it’s not the real reason they made this in the first place.

      They want to track you, and porn is the first excuse. If this is a success you might need this passport for alot of other things.

      • pdxfed@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        Thank you for contributing!

        You’ve used the last of your political observation credits for the month. If you’d like to request more, please visit yourcountry.gov citizen portal and fill out the application. Your wait time will be 3-5 business days. We apologize for the wait but we are currently receiving a high volume of applications.

        -govbot

  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
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    2 months ago

    Politicians keep trying to helicopter parent the entire populations of countries.

    Making sure your kids don’t go places online before they should, and have conversations with them about it once they reach an age where it happening is inevitable, is something every, single, parent, should do.

    Not the fucking state.

    And this has to be one the weirdest implementations of porn surveillance I’ve ever seen.

    • Souyo@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      In my experience most parents are to lazy to keep up with setting appropriate restrictions for kids and like some parents, they expect someone else to raise and take care of their children.

    • RedStrawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      2 months ago

      Exactly! Government granted ‘porn credits’ sounds absolutly insane as a serious idea…

      Porn “Enthusiasts will be able to request extra credits” is one wild sentence.

      A porn “enthusiast”, requesting the government for porn credits, to watch porn? What?