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A friend of mine told me that Yoti is used as an age verification system in so many porn websites. That’s such an issue, this information should never be owned by private companies.

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Or you could just choose not to use pornography. Then you don't have to verify your age to these websites.

I get that some people have a behavioural addiction to this harmful content but perhaps the age verification is an opportunity to step back and reconsider.

First they came for the porn watchers And I did not speak out Because I was not a porn watcher

Almost everyone has watched porn, especially the people who want to outlaw it.

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Or they can be pushed to watch on less regulated platforms to avoid the age verification, which is far more likely and has negative consequences.

So we shouldn't be using GrapheneOS neither nor any Sony products if we follow your logic right? Because obviously it means we are addicted to both.

Agreed. It's important to remain pure.

I usually just use the Book of Mormon and that typically helps me get it done well-enough. But when that doesn't work, I allow myself some different material. The New Haven Code of 1656 is my reserve favorite and I have a laminated copy of the Comstock Act of 1873 on-hand for unusually-tricky edge cases.

Lamination guarantees re-usability.

I cannot stress highly enough the importance of maintaining reliable backups.

I tried tBoM, but always succumb to weakness when it gets to talking about how ripped Nephi is.

I tried changing the page, Helaman's 2,000 stripper warriors are even hotter.

Stupid sexy Mormonism...

Excellent bait, well done! Nearly fell for it!

Forcing Puritanical values on the world around you is half the reason we are in this mess.

Another good reason to not use it is the risk of having illegal material downloaded from a server hosted internationally.

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