France is moving to classify X as a pornographic website, a designation that would place it under the country’s mandatory age verification and digital ID laws.
This step, if finalized, would force the company to either implement robust age-gating mechanisms or restrict access to adult content altogether to avoid being cut off from younger users.
It would also mean that users have to show ID to access the platform, introducing major implications for privacy and free speech.
Kids would be better off on pornhub
Nazi propaganda: I sleep
Porn: Real shit
Never expected the place known for nude beaches and a president who married a pedophile to be one that implemented this kind of block.
Sad to see France is heading this direction, Canada was very close to heading this route too, thankfully it didn’t end up that way.
Twitter is shit, but France went really nuts.
Why is anyone still on X anyway? Its AI bot trash.
Tbh adult content is probrally the most respectable content you can find on X, especially compared to the constant Nazis and genocide apologetic liberals.
Liberals are genocide apologists?!
This is kind of hilarious. Right wingers seek to limit privacy by forcing age verification online, and then the right wing social network gets caught in the same net. It hurt itself in it’s confusion.
Everyone should have content filtering tools. I use Adguard services for filtering my own internet (adult, Reddit, YouTube, etc.). Surely, implimenting something similar at an OS or router level would have saved us decades of pointless bickering and provided us with an actual consumer benefit?
If you want it, that should be your right, but the government shouldn’t be forcing it on you.
That’s not what I’m saying. I’m saying governments could force MS, Google, Apple to implement content filtering tools at the OS level, that give users the choice to set up filtering however they want for themselves or their kids.
This already largely works, at least on Android. I use RethinkDNS, which allows me to filter stuff already, and comes included with a host of DNS filters out of the box.
I don’t need MS, Google, or Apple to do it, just make it possible to install a third-party app that does it. That way I get to decide which tool I think works best instead of whatever the OEM decides.
I don’t know if they still do it, but some mobile internet providers in the UK would filter things out unless you sent them your ID to unblock it.
Not sure it’s a great solution, but better than having to provide your ID to every random website out there.
what does that have to do with France forcing you to show your ID to use Twitter?
Those against website age verification argue that content blocking should happen at the OS level. For example, a parent could enable the built-in “child mode” on their child’s smartphone or computer. As I understand it, that would be more effective, graceful, cheaper, free speechy, and private. To a degree, tech savvy parents (and people who block ads and other content) already do similar things with third party tools - i.e. it’s feasible.
Sure if that was all they had in mind. This is also about collecting info and controlling what people can do, the content is just an excuse as a means of doing so.
Well, yes, there is that.
Everyone in France already subbed to VPNs for the pornhub block. This won’t even result in a traffic hiccup.
Why use age instead of a knowledge check instead?
How would that work?
Just ask for something like “what’s the quadratic formula?”
Tho to be fair, that would still probably block at least half of xitter’s users…
