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

  • golden_zealot@lemmy.mlEnglish
    122·
    4 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.

    • VirtualOdour
      38·
      4 months ago

      I want to be at the meeting a year from now where they realize only two people have ever signed up ‘Yay we fixed porn!’

      Buy who am I kidding they brought VPN shares before this was introduced

      • No_Eponym@lemmy.ca
        6·
        4 months ago

        Bought VPN shares and water shipping company shares because they know wasting money on this shit instead of on public infrastructure to provide more reliable clean water is only good for commercial interests.

    • themurphy@lemmy.ml
      28·
      4 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.

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        17·
        4 months ago

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