I mean that should be the bare minimum and instituted when the internet first got popular in the 90s. Its actually absurd that it took until the 2020s for websites to implement that. Porn websites dug their own grave here by trying to be super lax on the rules and only enforcing them when third parties forced them too. It is an extremely flimsy business model to run websites without proper verification and I'm surprised it lasted this long.
Previously everyone was anonymous on the internet.
This is going away, and indeed has already gone away on the Chinese internet (intranet). All apps require real-name verification and if you get banned, you stay banned. Forever.
The new trend of having to show ID for anything is going to suck.
I mean that should be the bare minimum and instituted when the internet first got popular in the 90s. Its actually absurd that it took until the 2020s for websites to implement that. Porn websites dug their own grave here by trying to be super lax on the rules and only enforcing them when third parties forced them too. It is an extremely flimsy business model to run websites without proper verification and I'm surprised it lasted this long.
Previously everyone was anonymous on the internet.
This is going away, and indeed has already gone away on the Chinese internet (intranet). All apps require real-name verification and if you get banned, you stay banned. Forever.
The new trend of having to show ID for anything is going to suck.
Abolishing anonymity to own the pedophiles (we like it this time apparently)