Officials in the United Kingdom and Australia are moving to implement digital IDs in order for people to access pornographic and adult content to vastly reduce the numbers of minors easily stumbling upon these sites.
Parts of the United States have already begun to crackdown on porn sites. Last year the state of Louisiana mandated that residents accept a digital ID passport in order to gain access to explicit content within the state.
SEE: Louisiana Forces Residents To Receive Digital ID In Order To View Pornographic Websites
Last week British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was reportedly urged by his Conservative Party to adopt a similar type of system to reduce the number of children getting access to these sites.
Bloomberg reported that ‘A series of amendments being drafted for the long-debated Online Safety Bill will propose that all porn websites must implement age verification systems within six months of it becoming law.’
The amendments added to the Online Safety Bill are slated to be discussed in late-February, which will seek to mandate that adults over 18 must verify their age using IDs and licenses, or things like credit card information. This can be achieved via a third-party source to ensure the ID is not linked to the porn site itself to also preserve privacy.
Bloomberg adds that other sites use software that estimates a person’s age per the use of a webcam or phone camera, which is what sites like OnlyFans use, utilizing technology by a company called Yoti.
What we need is an emphatic timetable and clear cut commitment to hard-gated mandatory age verification. The current provisions are a kumbaya aspiration that leaves open too many loopholes, no enforcement and no timetable.
James Bethell, a Conservative peer who is overseeing the amendments said in an interview on Tuesday.
Meanwhile in Australia New South Wales (NSW) Minister for Customer Service and Digital Government Victor Dominello said on LinkedIn two weeks ago that the government is also working on a age verification ID for similar purposes, that also overlap into purchases and forms of accessibility.
You can buy most things online these days – all you need are a few details – your name – your address – your payment information.
However there are some transactions online – where you need to show your age. For example, buying alcohol and concert tickets.
Typically to prove your age, customers would provide details of their credentials and DOB or scan a copy of their driver licence or passport.
This just further exposes your personal information to a hack. There are a number of excellent products already in the market that can act as an intermediary (and provide other add on services) to ensure that your personal information is not disclosed.
However, given that only Govts can issue identity documents to source – it’s important that in a modern age – Govts also provide options so people do not have to “overshare” their personal information with others in the first place.
In the next few weeks, I will share with you details of a digital ID pilot – where you can verify that you are over the age of 18 without having to provide primary documents 🙏
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Australia has already been pushing for digital IDs for other reasons, to wit online voting in NSW. Things like the country’s MyGovID are proposed options.
The WinePress reported on the MyGovID app last year. Beyond just storing digital IDs, the state-issued app can also manage banking with both private and public services, along with storing vaccine passports.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath.
Proverbs 29:8
As I said with the Louisiana digital app, I am most certainly against the atrocities that are pornography or of the like kind are and cause, but this is a trap to get the masses to accept the digital IDs, vaccine passports, CBDCs, and social credit scores.
Governments this year and beyond will pull every trick in the book to get people ensnared and enticed to accept a digital ID. And since SOOO many people are addicted to porn, and other things like drinking and gambling, the governments will be quite successful in enticing people to get them.
Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.
1 Corinthians 10:14
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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14) But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
15) Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
16) Do not err, my beloved brethren.
James 1:14-16
Lust and sex perversion are destroyers, widow and widower-makers, relationship crushers, mind ruining, moral slashing, depression causing, finance draining, and death bringing evils.
I’m so thankful that I have finally come to repentance, my fear of the Lord has grown, and I have repented from strip clubs and pornography, God gets the glory for that not me!