Companies that tell you to treat the building as your "second home", but then frown when you want to bring your laundry to work, do yoga or workouts at your desk, or bring your kids or Grandma into the office so you can keep a eye on them.
But why would I need to provide my ID when buying a loaf of bread now? Just because cigarettes and drugs are regulated does not mean we should regulated bread "to protect the children".
This is what a "digital ID" would do, you would need to provide your ID at every interaction you do online. That would include every single website you enter (including Lemmy for example), and every page you visit in those sites.
If you think of this "physically" the equivalent would be the need for you to provide your ID when you enter a store, when you enter any store aisle, when you pull any product off the shelf, and then provide your ID once again when you purchase at the register. Not to mention now when you leave the store you would need to provide your ID getting back to your car/bus/tram so you can head to your next destination.
The biggest difference here now between providing your physical ID at a store counter to purchase cigarettes, vs being ID physical at every corner/street/store is the invasion of privacy and freedoms, not to mention this can be used against you in many ways.
I would prefer for parents and myself included to be able to pick and choose what's best for their own children. (Using current technology, such as local parental controls on home routers)
I do not support "digital IDs" and by extension governments with corporations collecting and or processing this data in anyway, or tracking me or my children in anyway.
What I would support is local governments creating a system/group to "curate the internet" similar to how librarians curate books. Classify websites into listed based on certain criteria, and then provide this list for parents to whitelists on a home router. No need to check IDs or scan faces and the end goal of "protecting the children" would be achieved.
Parental controls have existed for years on home routers. Anything more is the equivalent of a stanger coming into my home and telling me how to raise my kids.
Requiring to provide ID to third party corporations is not the ideal solution, especially when that information can be leaked and stolen, and let's face it corporations leak and get hacked almost weekly. Would you support your childs and your information being leaked and posted online?
Now if "protected the children" were the actual real reason for "age verification" then this could be achieved with government campaigns for proper parental controls and programs for education supporting IT literacy. Goverment curation of websites approved for certain age brackets (a whitelist) could also be implemented and made available simply and efficiently within routes.
The same can then be implemented at the "device side" with a DNS and schools can apply the same to any school networks. Hell manufacturers could provide a "kids mode" for devices that locks the DNS.
Nowhere should the solution be a "ID check" for everyone of every age bracket having their face scanned and tracked everywhere they go.
Imagine for a moment living in a world where you would need to provide identification at every corner, street, or store you walk into.
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Remember when companies like Google and Facebook got slapped with fines and fees from various countries for sumerizing news in "social feeds" on their sites.
News outlets were complaining about loss of ad revenue as a result of reduced traffic to their website directly, as consumers could get news summarized on their social feed.
Facebook even in some cases blocked news links in some countries from not showing on users feeds as a result, so as to be compliant with local passed laws and not pay fees or fines.
Then news outlets complained that no one was going to their sites because links were not being shared on social platforms. The very thing they complained about in the first place.
Guess AI summarising news is somehow completely different and a completely new challenge that politicans somehow don't understand.
I suppose dvd order porn will become a thing once again.
Or alternatively we can start sharing bootleg USBs with our friends.
The Internet had begun its enshitification stage, as governments look to control and lock down access to the internet people will find new and creative ways to bypass these barriers. For one, things like Tor or going back to DVDs and physical media might get more main stream.
Does Denmark still have mail delivery for "other items" like small are large packages?
I would presume one could still send a envelope with a letter inside it located inside a bigger box or bubble envelope? One could even use the service to ship a fully encrypted USB or HHD if one wanted too.
In Canada there is talk about ending the national funded postal service as well (this one delivers letters predominantly), you can use it to ship larger items along with standard envelopes.
Its a strange idea to me though as people always need to mail things, so if the national postal service is shuttered then a private postal service will need to step in.
There goes my RAM