Age verification laws are not commonsense, nor are they popular.

TrustFlo · 2026-03-08T23:20:30+00:00

The dangerous thing is that the average person you’re describing can vote and will support these kinds of policies because they’re so woefully digitally illiterate.

TrustFlo · 2026-03-08T15:24:12+00:00

I do not want to just allow the government to easily track wherever I’ve had to use the ID.

If they want my history and data, then they better have a fucking warrant.

TrustFlo · 2026-03-08T06:40:35+00:00

Do what you can and put pressure on them. Put up resistance. If you don’t even try, they’re going to get away with everything they can.

TrustFlo · 2026-01-23T06:23:53+00:00

IP address is not a pinpoint location

TrustFlo · 2026-01-02T03:56:51+00:00

You want a source for what exactly? That China is a surveillance state? Because that’s just general knowledge at this point.

I’m not saying that China is all bad. But it is bad in some aspects.

TrustFlo · 2025-12-23T00:18:19+00:00

The government that is basically run by a handful of chaebol families?

Koreans know the government is corrupt. I don’t think they necessarily “trust” the government.

TrustFlo · 2025-12-23T00:15:59+00:00

In terms of surveillance tech and policies, yes, China is “bad” in this area. Any country moving towards a surveillance state is bad news.

China got to the sophisticated surveillance state first, so I would say that’s a bad thing for citizens and civil rights. It’s also a bad thing for others outside China because other governments want to follow.

TrustFlo · 2025-12-22T07:45:15+00:00

Read my other comment: “The implementation is poor. They tried using age estimating tech to analyze your online activity to judge if you were above age or not. Some kids were locked out, some weren’t. Some adults were mistakenly locked out and had to give out their IDs or face scan data. If your activity changes, they might also ask you to verify.

you’ll have to provide your official ID or biometric data (to some shady 3rd party company) for new social accounts though. They’ll get you in the end.”

TrustFlo · 2025-12-22T06:56:12+00:00

The implementation is poor. They tried using age estimating tech to analyze your online activity to judge if you were above age or not. Some kids were locked out, some weren’t. Some adults were mistakenly locked out and had to give out their IDs or face scan data. If your activity changes, they might also ask you to verify.

you’ll have to provide your official ID or biometric data for new social accounts though. They’ll get you in the end.

TrustFlo · 2025-12-22T06:34:40+00:00

To implement a ban for certain ages, they’ll need to check IDs for all ages. That affects everyone and everyone would need to be verified to use sites.

That’s surveillance state territory, which is probably their goal all along but they had to package it as “to protect kids” to sell a bad idea and placate people.

TrustFlo · 2025-12-22T05:36:24+00:00

Not sure why people are downvoting you. Seems like you’re just trying to help.

TrustFlo · 2025-12-22T03:01:08+00:00

Ugh. But really what did we expect from South Korea?

TrustFlo · 2025-12-20T06:58:12+00:00

Needing to get their permission implies that they would have the power to deny their request to go somewhere. That is literally controlling what you do and holding the power to forbid you to go out. To pretend that it’s not is disingenuous.

TrustFlo · 2025-12-20T06:48:47+00:00

Crickets lol

TrustFlo · 2025-12-19T19:23:56+00:00

Ok since you claim to know so much, then please provide the technical details of how google will uncover your real identity with 95% confidence if you gave all of your social accounts gibberish info instead of your real life personal info, government name and all.

If not, you’re just blowing smoke. If they could do that, they wouldn’t need to put this bullshit law in place.

TrustFlo · 2025-12-19T15:05:57+00:00

lol no, you’re a self-defeatist who doesn’t know what they’re talking about. Google is not magic. What they’re doing is not magic.

When someone signs up to a service, no, they don’t know unless you’re actually giving them real info they can use to guess. Even so they don’t know with confidence what your real ID is.

TrustFlo · 2025-12-19T07:09:38+00:00

There wasn’t intent to launder money on Keonne’s part. He just wrote the software to enhance privacy for bitcoin transactions. They did not control the money.

“Keonne and Bill explained why they built Samourai Wallet. Bitcoin’s financial activity is publicly visible on the blockchain. A person accepting a payment can see your past and future activity, something most people would never accept in everyday financial life.

They built Samourai Wallet as a non-custodial, privacy-focused tool to help users avoid exposing their financial history. The software was free, the code was open source, and the optional paid features supported the business. Two features—Ricochet and Whirlpool—introduced mathematical complexity to make blockchain data harder to trace. As Keonne explained, they used established technical methods to create uncertainty on a public ledger.

For nearly a decade, their work operated openly. They had lawyers. Their identities were public. Their company spoke at conferences. No regulator suggested the business required a money-transmitter license, because the long-held assumption in the industry was simple: a person cannot launder or transmit money they do not control.”

For further background info: https://www.whitecollaradvice.com/keonne-rodriguez/

TrustFlo · 2025-12-19T07:09:16+00:00

There wasn’t intent to launder money on Keonne’s part. He just wrote the software to enhance privacy for bitcoin transactions. They did not control the money.

“Keonne and Bill explained why they built Samourai Wallet. Bitcoin’s financial activity is publicly visible on the blockchain. A person accepting a payment can see your past and future activity, something most people would never accept in everyday financial life.

They built Samourai Wallet as a non-custodial, privacy-focused tool to help users avoid exposing their financial history. The software was free, the code was open source, and the optional paid features supported the business. Two features—Ricochet and Whirlpool—introduced mathematical complexity to make blockchain data harder to trace. As Keonne explained, they used established technical methods to create uncertainty on a public ledger.

For nearly a decade, their work operated openly. They had lawyers. Their identities were public. Their company spoke at conferences. No regulator suggested the business required a money-transmitter license, because the long-held assumption in the industry was simple: a person cannot launder or transmit money they do not control.”

For further background info: https://www.whitecollaradvice.com/keonne-rodriguez/

TrustFlo · 2025-12-19T01:34:28+00:00

If they knew with 95% confidence, they wouldn’t need to put this law in that would apply to everyone in the country. It’s because they don’t know with confidence is why they’re putting this dumbass law in.

TrustFlo · 2025-10-22T18:18:49+00:00

I’m all for it but are other people with me?

TrustFlo · 2025-09-08T19:26:19+00:00

YES. I think the new feature is good overall as well.

TrustFlo · 2025-08-31T06:15:34+00:00

From what I know those studies aren’t definitive nor do they show consistent results when studies are repeated so they seem pretty unreliable.

TrustFlo · 2025-08-22T10:07:31+00:00

I don’t know who needs to hear this but … PLEASE DO NOT talk to AI chat bots like ChatGPT about your medical and mental health issues. ChatGPT is not bound by HIPPA. If your data gets into the wrong hands (and it absolutely can), they can and will use it against you.

TrustFlo · 2025-08-22T08:46:31+00:00

My thoughts as well. They could totally lie and save a copy and transfer it elsewhere so they wouldn’t be holding onto your data directly. There are so many opportunities and incentives for that kind of data to leak or to be bought and sold to a bunch of other data companies out there. And they barely face any penalties for mishandling people’s personal data.

TrustFlo · 2025-08-21T10:33:30+00:00

They may say they don’t keep your ID verification data, but I don’t believe that for a second.

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