I humbly request that you keep politics out of this.. there is a huge difference between sex workers especially transgenders and making adult video games I don't mind supporting a petition for the rights of adult video games to be created, manufactured, published and distributed however part of the petition you want people to sign would make it where a person in the sex industry does not have to have age verification *a direct quote from the petition "including pre-approval of all content before publication, forbidding certain search terms, and monitoring the age and identity verification process for all performers"*. (Keywords here are monitoring the age) So no a petition of this kind I will never sign. For anyone who does decide to sign this, That's your decision and I won't criticize it, but just be careful that you fully understand the implications of what your signing.
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i'll have to agree with you on this. bringing in all of this when the danger against this game is low. and making it so a sex worker doesnt have age verification sounds REALLY suspicious to me. if that thing goes through, it could mean some bad shit could go down for underaged individuals, and to me that is an INFINITELY Growing No-no, with no end in sight for how much i would despise even the thought of it.
non-real content like Games and Animations, as long as it isnt 3D, is all fine to me, as it isnt real and isnt near the boundry of reality enough to cause any real harm.
the danger behind that Petition is for sure real, and i am gonna be honest here, if anyone signs it, you show your hands openly, just know that.
I think you may be misunderstanding the wording of the petition. It’s not asking to eliminate age verification, just monitor the process better. Protecting children is important but it’s also important to retain what shreds of privacy we have left. Letting third party verification take data like our id information and biometrics that can be sold off to other companies is a crazy way of doing it. The idea is to have these things regulated and discussed without making huge sweeping bans or privacy violations through fear mongering. Collective Shout doesn’t care about children. You can see it in all the similar fights they’ve had through the years.
*a direct quote from the petition "including pre-approval of all content before publication, forbidding certain search terms, and monitoring the age and identity verification process for all performers"*
Now if they had stated "including pre-approval of all content before publication, forbidding certain search terms, and monitoring the identity process for all performers".
Then I would agree with you 100%... However the inclusion of the word age is where the sole issue is.
Yeah, the quote says that Mastercard shouldn’t force websites to impose invasive age and identity verification requirements to utilize their websites. That doesn’t mean there shouldn’t be any kind of age verification, as for years having a credit card was the means to do that. By putting in your card, which you must be 18 to own, you are verifying your age. I shouldn’t have to also send my driver’s license as proof to these third party verification services. The onus is on the parents to track what kids use their credit cards for in regards to their safety. I think a key point here is that payment processors should not get to have a say in what we spend our money on. Porn is an easy target because you’ve got to be out of your goddamn mind to give a thumbs up to kids having access to adult content. It’s an easy cause to rally behind. It sets groundwork for whatever they want to target next. If the website itself isn’t taking care to deal with risks to children, it’ll tear itself down. I mean, look at Roblox.
I can buy a prepaid visa gift card... It's treated exactly the same as a credit card that has my legal name on it. Last I checked you don't have to be 18 to get a gift card, also if you have kids there would be nothing to stop them from grabbing your card from your wallet while you are asleep. However if you have to do a live video to verify your identity a child would have to video tape you while you were awake (much harder to pull of when they require you to make a given gesture)
So, let me see if I understand what you're saying... A parent who has a full time job means they're working a minimum of 8 hours a day (during 5 days a week) in the same to be nice they only have one child versus two children or in the case of some families up to six children... They are supposed to somehow monitor those six children all 18 hours a day that they're awake (assuming the kids actually sleep a full 8 hours everyday) and make sure that ALL of the children (like I said between 1 and 6) don't get access to a gift card, your bank or credit card, or even at a friend's house look at and view adult content? I don't know that's you but if you're sleeping even 6 hours every night and you're working 8 hours every day for 5 days a week that's 13/24 hours a day for at least 5 days a week that you are unable to monitor even one child so how are you supposed to do that with up to six? In short it is literally impossible even for a helicopter parent... Let alone a normal parent that might also want to have time to I don't know interact with their spouse... In short it's completely illogical and unreasonable to expect a parent to be able to monitor their child the way you seem to be suggesting they should.
i'm all for people making their own choice's when it come's to this but i agree when it come's to minor's having axcess to sexualy explicit games or tools. they should not be able to get to these things at all i haven't read the petition yet but if it's worded so that minor's will be allowed to get axcess to these games i will not sign it