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Gaybucks · 03-09-2007, 02:27 AM

I'm the last person in favor of more governmental regulation, but I've been talking with an open standards group that has been working on a third-party verified identity standard for a couple years now.

It's actually really cool, doesn't violate privacy and, if anything, can potentially enhance it, as even the site owner doesn't have to know the identity of the person as the trusted third party verifies the authenticity and then provides a credential. Only catch is, it's not reliable for people under 18 and only partially reliable for people under 21 because it relies on data collected by various data aggregators.

I was trying to pitch it to CCbill and Epoch as a potential voluntary way for the industry to avoid mandatory laws like this, but nobody seemed very interested.

Perhaps everyone would rather have a solution implemented by Halliburton at a cost of $5000 per webmaster per year :")

All that said, I do think there are free speech issues and am not in favor of the government being more intrusive.

03-09-2007, 02:27 AM
Gaybucks Confirmed User Join Date: May 2004 Location: Sacramento, CA Posts: 451	I'm the last person in favor of more governmental regulation, but I've been talking with an open standards group that has been working on a third-party verified identity standard for a couple years now. It's actually really cool, doesn't violate privacy and, if anything, can potentially enhance it, as even the site owner doesn't have to know the identity of the person as the trusted third party verifies the authenticity and then provides a credential. Only catch is, it's not reliable for people under 18 and only partially reliable for people under 21 because it relies on data collected by various data aggregators. I was trying to pitch it to CCbill and Epoch as a potential voluntary way for the industry to avoid mandatory laws like this, but nobody seemed very interested. Perhaps everyone would rather have a solution implemented by Halliburton at a cost of $5000 per webmaster per year :") All that said, I do think there are free speech issues and am not in favor of the government being more intrusive. __________________ Gaybucks.com 100% exclusive American guys - hosted movie galleries - NATS - Boyfunk.com - Boysfeetclub.com - AJsCloset.com- SkylerDeVoss.com ICQ 272-995-402