This is both good; and bad.
Good because NG’s will be a little bit of a safer space for some. But bad because we will be losing a large chunk of our younger prodigy’s on this site, more people will now try to circumvent the changes with VPN’s and bypass proxies, and it will only make things worse on the privacy side of things for all involved.
Thank God I live in a country where I don’t need to choose between showing my information to an unknown or untrustworthy ID system on the internet, or just not bothering with an oppurtunity for the sake of my privacy.
As an anon artist, who does not like to share even my most basic of details on the internet, including my face and birth name for goodness sake; I think these changes will do more behind the scenes damage than any good. I literally had to make my age visable last year because people re either just really stupid and don’t see that I make M rated content (my podcast) — or won’t follow me because my age isn’t visible which is the fairer excuse. And even that for me was a boundary I didn’t want to cross.
The A tag I never browse at all, so the pr0ns don’t concern me as much. But what concerns me is the visability for these particular artists. Not just bewb sketchers, but NSFW VA’s and Vocalists, who arguably suffer the least amount of traffic on this site even in its current state.
Mitigating the minors-accessing-pr0ns problem with site devs with amazing potential in age restriction coding? A good idea.
Mitigating the problem with an ID check system that literally promises to compromise your privacy, your childrens privacy (despite what the UKOPA law is trying to imply.) and your ability to remain Anon on the internet being compromised? Terrible idea.
I hope the ones that have to leave; will return with the same energy and drive that led them to sign up here in the first place when they were a little younger.
Ofher than that; welcome to the dark age of anti-internet neutrality, AI hell, and oppressive digital acts made by cowpat sniffing madmen in fancy suits that call themselves politics.
