Podcast Episode 87: Age and Identity Verification, Censorship, and Authoritarianism

In today's episode we touch on topics of Age and Identity verification online, whether or not it's the job of the Government to protect people from "harmful" opinions, whether they are even capable of doing it and how these kinds of solutions might look like.

We also talked about benefits and drawbacks of centralized vs federated social media platforms, and that access to viewership still mostly trumps all the niceties of enclaved social media, be it paid or free.

Recently there has been a lot of conversation about protecting children online, scandals with platforms like Roblox, et al., and how kids should have their own spaces, but they have to be isolated from potential predators.

Finally we talk about a potential system for decentralized identity/age verification that could work in principle. The problem with these systems are not technological, but rather socio-political in nature, so hoping for a technological solution doesn't really make much sense.

Please take a look, and let us know what you think.