Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives voted to introduce digital IDs for porn users
    • Victor Villas ( villasv@lemmy.ca ) 
      24·
      3 years ago

      And you can bet that when that leak would happen, it would come along the entire search and view history for that person.

      These dumbfucks have to be saved from digging their own graves as always, because I’m sure the porn they consume is the shadiest.

    • Szymon ( Szymon@lemmy.ca ) English
      7·
      3 years ago

      He’s not an idiot. He pays attention, and has many smart people around him that push this agenda. The privacy breach is the point.

      The real question should be why the conservative party considers it their business what people watch. Aren’t they supposed to be for less government intrusion into your life? Seems they want to have much more control than the liberals and NDP who simply want us to stay out of everyone’s private business.

  • psvrh ( psvrh@lemmy.ca ) 
    25·
    3 years ago

    I don’t trust people to write secure code.

    I really don’t trust people who run low-margin, sketchy businesses like porn sites to write secure code.

    That’s the issue.

      • psvrh ( psvrh@lemmy.ca ) 
        5·
        3 years ago

        One of the reasons I don’t run my own webserver, or mailserver any more, or Lemmy/Mastodon instance now, is because I don’t want the liabillity of having to deal with content I don’t control. I’m amazed people run these at all, because it’s trivially easy to end up hosting very problematic content and get the attention of government in truly unpleasant ways.

        I cannot imagine anyone anywhere in this chain wants the liability of trying to gatekeep content via ID like this. It’s a technical impossibility, and a liability quagmire.

  • Hotzilla ( Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz ) 
    22·
    3 years ago

    The porn companies should together agree that they will create a public record of all conservative politics viewing habits if the bill is passed. This would kill any bills in a millisecond.

  • Max-P ( Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me ) 
    18·
    3 years ago

    Because porn sites are known to be serious, trustworthy entities that definitely don’t have a long history of distributing viruses and scammy penis enlargement products, and generally trustworthy ad networks that aren’t spooked out by porn as their source of revenue. They totally wouldn’t sell user data as extra income.

    There totally won’t be fake porn sites that needs your credit card and now your ID to verify your age and identity before they show you all those hot chicks in your area.

  • Treczoks ( Treczoks@lemm.ee ) 
    17·
    3 years ago

    Wow. Under what stone has this guy been living since the start of the digital age?

    As if any site that stores such data would not be a prime target for hackers for a number of reasons, and as if any site could really defend against a dedicated attack for as long as this law runs.

    • Kichae ( Kichae@lemmy.ca ) English
      5·
      3 years ago

      Being able to out porn viewers is almost certainly the point. I’m sure from their PoV, it’s giving them sources of this info that they can subpoena, but if it all leaks publicly, that gives them what they want, too.

    • trafficnab ( trafficnab@lemmy.ca ) 
      7·
      3 years ago

      They know it’s not secure, they’re hoping it will broadly stop (or at the very least, extremely hinder) people from watching porn

      Making anything that isn’t missionary position between a married man and woman under the covers with the lights off for the sole purpose of procreation illegal has been a long standing goal of modern conservatives, and they’re currently inching their way there