Spain introduces "Porn Passport" to keep kids from watching porn

> Porn-viewers will be asked to use the app to verify their age. Once verified, they'll receive 30 generated “porn credits” with a one-month validity granting them access to adult content. Enthusiasts will be able to request extra credits.

If I'm an adult, why is it any of the government's business what I do online?

This goes well beyond keeping adult material out of the hands of minors and jumps straight to regulating adult behavior.

> Once verified, they'll receive 30 generated “porn credits” with a one-month validity granting them access to adult content.

What is with the credits part? They did more work to build that and it seems under discussed, as it has no role in minor access to porn.

Why on Earth do people put up with this? I would actively vote against anyone who tried to do anything remotely like this and I'd ignore any website that charged government porn tokens for access. It's not as if there is any shortage of freely available adult material.

I have no idea what the government's interest in this scheme is, but because it cannot and will not prevent kids from accessing porn we can rule that out as a motivation. "Think of the children" is often just what people say to justify violating other's rights and it's a lot more disgusting when it comes from the Spanish government which ignores actual problems facing children. Maybe they should focus more on the fact that Spain has the highest child poverty rate in the EU

What a waste of time and money.

> It will be voluntary...

and then:

> ...is likely to be replaced by the EU’s very own digital identity system

I for one am grateful that governments are this inept. Can you imagine if they were well-oiled machines? We’d have lost all our freedoms a long time ago.