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Make it a duplication resistant hardware token that you can get for free then. The stakes just aren't high enough to worry about these kinds of edge cases.

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Yeah, right. So the government is going to spend billions on “porn tokens”. That’s going to get through the legislature.

I’m sure there wouldn’t be a brisk illicit trade in these tokens either. Certainly no one would be incentivized to sell these tokens to teenagers for easy profit.

Further, "porn tokens" are the pointy end of the wedge, because it's easy to misconstrue any opposition as advocating for "kids should have access to porn, actually". The broad end that is being hammered towards is "kids aren't allowed on social media because it's harmful to them" AKA "free speech tokens".

If you want an easy way to take something down, turn it into a vice. Then most of the people will do the rest of the work.

The stakes just aren't high enough for us to implement any of this crap for the Internet in the first place. Let alone an entire government-administered hardware supply chain.

Would be great, if we could all agree on that and simply everyone who is tasked implementing it in code refusing, and then letting non-engineers themselves try to do it and fail, and then have a good laugh about the figurative middle finger we gave them for their bs.

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