Parental Controls being hard/impossible to configure is something that needs to be resolved, lest we continue to get people advocating for website-side age-verification.

I’m only arguing that such a magic bullet is possible. Every objection this article raises seems like it is a straw man criticism – they’re imagining potential flaws in a zkp system of their own design. Take this one:

What ZKPs don’t do is mitigate verifier abuse or limit their requests, such as over-asking for information they don’t need

If the only info available is y/n “I am a minor,” then this isn’t possible.

or limiting the number of times they request your age over time.

well… we could just limit this! The user’s browser needs to cooperate for this anyway, so the user would obviously need to consent to each of these.

Look, I agree that this shouldn’t be necessary in the first place. And the EFF is right to raise the concern that ZKP has to be done right if it’s going to be done at all. But I’m disappointed that this is resulting in misinformation about ZKPs.

For the record, it’s possible to implement age verification with zero-knowledge proofs. IIRC, California has a proposal for this. It’s a myth that surveillance and encryption are compatible, but it’s also a myth that age verification necessitates a loss of privacy or anonymity.

The Sims was a great game. And it had same-sex marriage from the sims 2 on (which is the first game that actually has a proper notion of marriage).

can you give some examples of things that would count as world news to you? I would think world news is stuff that affects everyone throughout the world. U.S. politics affects everyone quite a bit.

right but what about the other stuff i said

A long-term losing strategy, yet short term it normally reliably drums up support in the kind of range that can tip an election. Quite eye-opening to me that an election can still be won with far-from-center politics.

After all, NYC is not part of the world.

Oddly enough, the NYPD have offices internationally, in Qarar, Israel, Colombia, Germany, and numerous other countries. Also, the New York health department is the one that cracked open the case on lead contamination in turmeric farming in Bangladesh. It’s probably one of the most international cities, for whatever that means.