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

  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
    181·
    6 months ago

    Politicians keep trying to helicopter parent the entire populations of countries.

    Making sure your kids don’t go places online before they should, and have conversations with them about it once they reach an age where it happening is inevitable, is something every, single, parent, should do.

    Not the fucking state.

    And this has to be one the weirdest implementations of porn surveillance I’ve ever seen.

    • RedStrawberry
      95·
      6 months ago

      Exactly! Government granted ‘porn credits’ sounds absolutly insane as a serious idea…

      Porn “Enthusiasts will be able to request extra credits” is one wild sentence.

      A porn “enthusiast”, requesting the government for porn credits, to watch porn? What?

    • Souyo@lemmy.world
      17·
      6 months ago

      In my experience most parents are to lazy to keep up with setting appropriate restrictions for kids and like some parents, they expect someone else to raise and take care of their children.

      • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
        23·
        6 months ago

        So what? I’ve had the exact same experience.

        It’s not a reason for the state to overstep into ALL our lives. In fact, the state stepping in is giving such parents yet more excuses to put even less effort into shaping the adults that their children will become.