The UK’s new act blocks access to adult content without identification. Turns out, you only need a copy of Death Stranding and a phone to get around it.

  • @[email protected]
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    1821 hours ago

    It’s like ad blockers. They allow the clever people who could give an opposition movement some teeth an easy way out. Too few fight now and when they activate the better filters, everything will be tightened up.

  • @[email protected]
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    1421 hours ago

    I know this is a bit different. I’m in the UK and there’s a few sites I use which can’t implement the age verification due to being a small team so they’ve straight up banned all UK traffic.

    VPN to another EU location seems to work. I’m actually surprised it was that easy. It also works on a bunch of sites I wish not to have an account. Not all, but most.

    The politicians who passed this are either clueless morons or are using this to push some other agenda (no idea what).

  • @[email protected]
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    So let me try and think this out.

    Norman Resdus’ face is used to get around this crap ----> they filter out Norman’s face ----> poor Norman Resdus can no longer use UK internet.

  • @[email protected]
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    1131 day ago

    The great thing about the kind of idiots that pass these stupid laws is that they are idiots.

    The terrible thing is that since they are idiots they won’t see this as proof that the law is stupid but instead that they should make the law stupider.

    • @[email protected]
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      331 day ago

      HOW DARE YOU SUGGEST THEY ADDRESS THE ROOT CAUSE OF THE PROBLEM RATHER THAN APPLY A BANDAID?!

      • @[email protected]
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        1722 hours ago

        “Hmm, better criminalise this ‘death stranding’ hacker programme too.”

        ~ Government

    • Kairos
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      1822 hours ago

      I assume the reason this specific tool was mentioned is that the “selfie” requires the person to be striking a specific pose. I estimate less than a week until something like the site you linked comes out which is able to do custom poses.

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          Albright. 0 or negative tjme is less than a week :33

          Edit: I was high when I wrote this if you’re wondering about the spellings

      • @[email protected]
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        1322 hours ago

        You can already generate 5s video for free with adobe firefly (two daily), and for static images, you could already do them for a long time on commodity hardware with your custom prompts.

        This isn’t a fight they lost quickly, this is a fight they lost before showing up, but still showed up.

  • Kyden Fumofly
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    1222 hours ago

    And i title that caught my eye after the article :

    Nexus Mods will soon require age verification for UK and EU users looking for its treasure trove of adult mods

    SHIT

  • @[email protected]
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    1311 day ago

    Such an unfathomably stupid idea to use facial recognition for this. It would be funny if it weren’t so dangerous.

    • @[email protected]
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      14 hours ago

      “but but but . . . think about the children! and not the facial recognition data we’re collecting”

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      This is a fascist tool of surveillance capitalism, which will be sold off to data brokers and rolled into big brother sooner than later.

  • HSR🏴‍☠️
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    If I understand this correctly, according to UK government’s logic, Discord’s actions are comparable to a store selling alcohol to (potentially) thousands of minors who are wearing fake beards. What sort of punishment shall befall them for this misdeed, I wonder…

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    411 day ago

    Well, now its government ID or straight to jail.

    Another 80’s “unbelievable conspiracy theory” now (or soon) law. Hey if you get the subdermal chip its so convenient.

  • kbal
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    241 day ago

    On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a repatriate full of cryptobiotes.