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

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

I'm not sure why this is the focus rather than legislating that router/access point manufacturers create robust and simple to use parental controls and then running public service campaigns that educate parents on how to use them.

Not that I really care that much since I don't watch porn. I just don't think putting adult content behind a verification system that applies to everyone makes sense when the idea is to prevent kids, who generally have at least one person who controls the networking equipment and should be monitoring their devices/activity, from seeing it.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

The fact that they don't go for any of the ways to manage access to porn that are more effective and less invasive of privacy suggests that the point is, as always, surveillance and not protecting children from porn.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Sucks to live in Spain, I guess. The rest of us get spied on just fine without it being nearly as annoying. /s

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

The guy who's likely to become Canada's next PM wants to do this too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

What better ways are there to manage access to it?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Also it is not like the porn websites are hard to block really. They make it pretty easy.