Ok, I’m going to play devils advocate here a bit.
Before the internet, porn still existed, and you had to show an ID to rent an Adult Film…The government could get access to your purchases with a warrant. It wasn’t on the parents to prevent you from checking out an adult film, it was on the clerk to stop you from being able to rent it. How many articles do we see about how social media is harmful to children, iPad Kids, etc.? Same thing applies to porn on the internet….
If this is done right, like the EU appears to have done, then it is anonymous. Well, not totally anonymous but anyone that thinks you’re anonymous to the government using a VPN or really anything is kidding themselves. Good luck trying to find a software solution to solve a people problem. Snowden already told us every single mobile device has an IMEI, so VPN doesn’t mean shyt to the government. I guarantee something similar exists for laptops and desktops as well. Theres almost nothing out there Big Brother doesn’t know that you haven’t already “told” him. If they wanted to blackmail you for watching porn, you must be pretty important and they’re going to pull out all the stops to get you. And that’s assuming they don’t already have it from the wide mass surveillance net they cast on every single American.
We should’ve pushed for regulation of the buying and selling of data, as well as legislation to reel in the NSA, and countless other things…I guess it’s not too late, but that would require so many drastic changes in everyday Americans (including myself) and I don’t know if we’ll ever get to that point. Long story short, getting upset at this is misguided anger, imo.
Depending on how this is implemented the only thing a hacker would know about someone is that they are in a database for age verification for viewing porn, not what they view, not when they viewed it, or what websites.
They might be able to blackmail you for being in age verification database for watching porn. However, grown men who can be blackmailed based off the fact that they at some point in time watched porn are few and far between…And that doesn’t include potential barrier of entry for a hacker to be able to get access to the info in the first place. Which could be a high barrier to overcome for potential blackmail, fraud, identity theft, etc. to even happen in the first place
I trust no corporation, no company, to EVER have my best interests in mind. They do what is in their best interest and that is make money. If our best interests align, it’s a coincidence, or forced through regulation. These porn websites know that the vast majority of people will hate this, and that’s going to affect their bottom line. If their bottom line could be unaffected and they had to violate your privacy they would do it. Don't confuse their greed for solidarity.
