Covargo said:
Mindgeek the owners of Pornhub are creating AgeID which they said they will charge most sites to use and some small blogging sites free usage. This software will allow people to verify their age once and any sites that uses AgeID won't have a prompt to prove age again.

I'm honestly at a loss as to how anyone can determine a user's age with the smallest degree of certainty without having a) a comprehensive register of basic personal data, like a government's ID database, and b) a way to identify the person at the time that person is accessing their service. I doubt any government is willing to share their citizens' ID database unless you're a mega-corporation, and, to the best of my knowledge, the only way to verify one's identity at time of access would be biometrics, and current consumer-level cellphone cameras and such can't reliably do that. Most fingerprint scanners can be foiled with a simple cast of one's finger. God knows how many of them might be foiled by just a photograph of one's hand.

KiraNoot said:
Every time these come up it's a lot of fear mongering over what it's going to do to e621, but unless it's happening in the US and applicable there, then the answer is that it doesn't impact the site.

Speaking of which, hasn't SESTA/FOSTA come into effect on January 1st? From my understanding, it kills section 230 ded, so juridical responsibility for illegal material falls to the host now, not the uploader. It might not affect e621 now, but if the USA were to pass a law banning loli or somesuch, the lack of protection once provided by section 230 would mean big trouble, wouldn't it?