I’ve seen multiple requests for nsfw lemmy communities like reddit has. I live in Germany, and I think you are required to verify that the users that see porn content are above the age of 18. Does Lemmy has or plan to have a feature for that? Maybe this should be an issue on github?
Never heard of something like that. Do you have an example of a website which dies that?
I can verify myself using my Id card and a terminal or via NFC. The app used is the middleware between software or website requesting verification and my ID. No data leaves my ID in direction to the software or website. The middleware just gives a thumbs up to the verification request.
For what website or service is that?
Yeah. The “software” being totally in the position of linking you, the person, with porn, the content, and linking that. Recording that. Permanently. I see no difference between using your actual ID and your proposal.
The actual problem with using your ID (or your magical solution, it’s all the same) to identify for porn, is that you cannot tell when the government will rule that porn is unlawful, effective retroactively, with you having to bear the punishment, out of nowhere.
You (OP) being German, I think you should be more sensitive to that. It’s not like you didn’t have history lessons about the last time this kinda thing happened… Oder?
And as for kids… I put protections in place (forcing safe search via DNS, blackholing certain hosts, etc) for my kids, this isn’t actually so hard to do. And quite effective. The day they can bypass that, they’ll sure be old enough for porn, or even the much more harmful content the internet has to “offer”…
Something like this is exactly what I meant
No sadly I don’t. I guess for most plattforms its just so much easier to not host the server in Germany/EU…
If you do not know any website that does this, how do you know it is required in Germany? I have never heard of that
The thing is, that it is only required if the company is located in Germany. Thats why pornhub, a company run by Germans (afaik) does not have to do it… It was in the news multiple times, when the government tried to remove that condition so all porn sites accessed from Germany have to verify the age of the German visitors.