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Spain introduces porn passport to stop kids from watching smut (www.politico.eu)

submitted 4 months ago by Salix@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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

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[–] ChaoticEntropy 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It seems pretty clear that advocates for and against porn/prostitution should all want it to be legalised and regulated so that proper controls and oversight can be put in place. Driving porn/prostitution in to the hands of criminal enterprise guarantees that there is no safety or standard of behaviour when it comes to these industries, much like the failing war on drugs.

[–] whodoctor11@lemmy.ml -3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

much like the failing war on drugs

It's insightful of you to associate these two problems, in fact, in that they are similar. In both cases, there is also no point in legalizing so that large companies control activities, creating, in the case of drugs, big tobacco 2.0.

[–] ChaoticEntropy 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Okay, well tell Portugal that then, considering the dramatic social shift after decriminalising and treating drug addiction as a health issue.

Obviously don't do it like America, because that's the same rule with most things.

[–] whodoctor11@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Did you understand that I defend legalization, I just don't defend it being controlled by big companies?

[–] ChaoticEntropy 5 points 4 months ago

Sounds like we agree then, you did say that there is no point in legalising it. If that was the combined concept of both legalising it and giving it to corps to handle being bad, then sure, we agree.