Proton CEO warns global age verification push will mean "the death of anonymity online"

For the right money, either!

Are you positive they aren't talking about something else? Because Proton complies with 89% of the thousands of censorship/data requests they get every year.

https://freedom.press/digisec/blog/proton-mail-is-not-for-anonymity/

The death of anonymity for most people, yes. Not me though. I'm going to make my own internet. With blackjack. And hookers. And protonmail too, probably.

All they are going to do is drive a dark internet

The guy in the picture also endorsed the political party most associated with age verification laws.

But this is Lemmy, where we don't criticize Proton!

The death of anonymity for most people, yes. Not me though. I'm going to make my own internet. With blackjack. And hookers. And protonmail too, probably.

I mean, the fediverse that you're already on already kind of is the ground floor. Most of these places are not going to be affected by age verification.

But if you want to climb a few floors up to where the blackjack and hookers are probably hanging out, there are things like I2P it's delightfully sketchy. the best kind of sketchy.

It actively divests itself from any centralized shit like SSL or DNS, it's a raw HTTP only darknet that operates through its own peer-to-peer proxy network, totally anonymized and encrypted and segregated from any hint of open network traffic.

That makes no sense, when the age verification is being pushed to the OS and ISP levels.

Sure, you can connect to Lemmy, and not have to prove your identity to Lemmy, but Windows users will have to prove to microsoft, and also you'll have to prove it to Verizon, or Comcast, or whomever your ISP is.

So before you even turn on your computer, you've already proved your identity twice.

I mean I'm absolutely going to be feeding it as much dogshit as possible, personally.

Proton mail is garbage and they will betray you.

Mesh net?

I'm probably a better hooker. I feel like I'd just let you down as a blackjack dealer.

Ugh. That's disgusting on a thousand levels. Even proposing such a bill should be considered a jailable violation of the constitution, as an example to the rest of the authoritarian bastards.

Well it was Mark Zuckerburg who's made the big push for it... You know, offload responsibility from his platform being addicting and all.. Plus, both sides are equally corrupt, so really it's time to move to something new. Forward, Green, Reform, Libertarian, etc.

This is the obvious end goal. Never had anything to do with children.

The age verification is really just an alternate means for these companies to try to find out which of us are real people or not with the intent to scrape AI training materials more "cleanly". But it's all moot in the long run, as it turns out that it will be easy for anyone who wants to break the law to pretend to be someone they aren't.

In a world where identity theft is more rampant than ever, you'd have to be some kind of numbskull to think that this will be effective at doing any of the intended affects. It's literally a complete waste of time & money.