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Porn is a serious issue, and so is identity | Consult Hyperion

Back in 2014, I wrote about how stupid the idea of making people very their age with credit cards for access to adult content.

Forcing people to give their credit card details out willy-nilly will inevitably leading to an explosion in card fraud,

From Porn is a serious issue, and so is identity | Consult Hyperion

So things like the Ashley Madison data leak were entirely predictable. Entirely predicted, in fact.

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At the seminar Helen said the “The gap between real-world identity and online identity is at the root of [the problem of cyberbullying]”. So let’s close that gap. Not by requiring (and policing) “real” names, but by implementing pseudonymity correctly.

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