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Sorry, didn't mean to imply it was a bad thing. It's only a bad thing when you want to limit others because of your own lack of self control as a means to control yourself.

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Well if you do it too much, you can indeed hurt yourself.

Asking the legitimate real questions

I haven't seen a seed in like 15 years and I smoke all the time!

GeoFappr?

Its a cryptographic way of verifying something without having to expose the information it's verifying.

Lets say you need to prove you're over the age of 18

You can have a digital ID that has your birthdate on it.

Through some fancy cryptographic stuff I can't explain, the website could challenge your ID to prove your age, and the ID could return a response that proves you are over 18, but it doesn't need to actually give your name or age in response, and it's response isn't something that can be linked back to your ID.

Now simply having an ID isn't necessarily enough, kids could just take someones ID, so it might need to have some biometic's added and be a small piece of hardware that has the digital ID, so when the website challenges the ID, you unlock the ID with your fingerprint, and now the website knows the owner of that ID is the user of the ID, and they are 18 or older.

For this to work though you'd need someone who has authority on your age to implement the digital ID properly, and then write the software that will validate things.

So you could go to the DMV as an example, they issue you a license while you're there, you authenticate the ID with your finger print (but they DMV doesn't get your fingerprint, it's just stored on the ID) and then the website can challenge the ID and get a response that verifies you're old enough, without verifying who you are, or your age.

Edit: just to add, and ID like this wouldn't be limited to online. You could go to the liquor store and validate without them having to see your ID which exposes where you live for example.

That's the point. Blam it right into their faces to see who cock-blocks them.

You might be surprised. There's some really gross right-wing power fantasy porn hitting front pages.

Easy: VPN license. Corporations already don't like when customers use VPNs to get around their geo locks on content. We're one lobbying push away from courts broadly interpreting use of a VPN as a malicious violation of DMCA or CFAA.

I mean, they get your social when you purchase service.

Wonder if the silver lining is no more trolls hiding behind a username...

Essentially a return of the rural barbed wire phone network.

Not connected to the larger internet, locally managed and controlled. I can even see pirates rolling out their own streaming services to people on the local mesh network.

Most people can/t figure out how to change their password. Those technologies are going to have to get real easy real fast to get somewhere.

I mean “one button” easy.