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themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 day ago

Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits

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Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits

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themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 day ago
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The change is due to new age verification laws in the UK.
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  • Zerush@lemmy.ml
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    With 72 years it is insulting for me to have to prove my age and the only thing they will prove will be my middle finger 😡

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    Meh, just upload a dick pic.

    Greedy little pigboy.

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    No problem

    https://this-person-does-not-exist.com/en

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      Can you use it with that watermark on it? I’d be surprised.

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        No, but with a screenshot without the Watermark at the bottom, there are also apps to delete Watermarks (always have to explain everything to today’s kids 🙄)

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          Im only capable of copy-paste, sorry.

          • Zerush@lemmy.ml
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            Are you with a mobile? Well, than upload the image to Minipaint (works also fine in mobile) and crop there la image. It’s a very complete and powerfull image editor, online (also downloadable) and FOSS.

            https://viliusle.github.io/miniPaint/

            https://www.devzery.com/post/guide-to-minipaint-the-free-online-image-editor-with-powerful-features

  • 𒉀TheGuyTM3𒉁@lemmy.ml
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    You must show your id to access NSFW subreddits!

    “oh no!”

    changes www.reddit.com to old.reddit.com on the adress bar

    “anyways”

    Tho i remember when they removed compact reddit. But i think if they remove old.reddit.com, people will really start to leave, so they’ll try to get rid of it quietly.

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      I do wonder how long they’ll let old.reddit.com stay. I assume they don’t want it but are worried about the backlash

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    Chants of “aye aye… AI” resound

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    and it has no interest in your identity.

    what blatant lies.

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    Search for adult selfie, submit found photo for age verification. Done.

    • galoisghost@aussie.zone
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      Even better generate one. it helps speed up AI decay

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        https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/

        • SteakSneak@retrolemmy.com
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          Thank you so much for this!

        • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
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          also https://github.com/hacksider/deep-live-cam

          • kautau@lemmy.world
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            Definitely, if the verification requires more than just a photo, something like this is the optimal solution. Flood the Persona AI with false data

        • Cricket [he/him]@lemmy.zip
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          That’s wild!

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      LPT: Turn safe search off, and you don’t even need the NSFW subreddits. You can search for adult anything and those results are guaranteed to contain porn. Usually, the more you scroll, more hard core it gets. When you go deep enough, you’ll eventually start finding furries too.

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        Don’t have to go particularly deep if you search “furry porn”, life hack

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        Are Furrys considered hard-core? I always thought it a little bit more silly than anything.

        (no judgement)

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          Furry by itself is largely no longer considered shocking and may even be getting close to mundane, but the thing to remember is that furry pornography can be and often is also in another kinky category at the same time. I think people who are into furry stuff (which includes myself, I’m not being judgemental either) may be more likely to be sexually “adventurous” in other ways as well.

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            Look, I consider myself pretty sexually adventurous. There are very few things I haven’t tried. So I’m definitely not here to kinkshame anyone. I’m into my own stuff.

            It’s just that, this one particular kink, for me, makes me laugh. I think it’s literally silly and goofy, and I can’t be sexually aroused when I’m too busy giggling.

            I don’t say this to mock anyone, and again, no judgments. It’s just not for me.

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              I completely get it. If I didn’t have a sense of humor about it I’d be miserable.

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          If all you know about is the sports mascot fursuits, keep it that way

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            I know I don’t want to dig into this, but that one part of my brain is all….

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            Can confirm. There are things you can’t unsee.

            You’ve been warned.

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        Sounds like a bad way to do things. Won’t you end up with gore on your feed? Not to mention it would be hard to filter out really dehumanizing, gross porn (which is frankly a description that fits most of it anyway)

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          That’s why I like old school image boards with filtering. Some places have such specific tags to exclude or include and it’s nice

      • Cricket [he/him]@lemmy.zip
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        When you go deep enough

        hehehe

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        Pretty sure that not all NSFW subreddits are focused on images and/or videos,in which case this suggestion does not seem to work.

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    Wanker loicense

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      Oh god I’m so nervous for my wanking practical test. I only just passed the wanking theory!

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      When I was 6, I earned my pen licence at school.

      Now as an adult, who do I need to prove my proficiency to in order to receive my wanking licence?

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        The wank auditor will see you now.

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      Don’t worry the gooners know all about that

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    What prevents you from uploading a picture of someone else?

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      What prevents you from uploading a picture of someone else?

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_you're_a_dog

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      It gets you to turn your head. It’s not just a selfi.

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    surely nothing could go wrong with this

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    I will straight up never give any social media site a real email address let alone a photo of myself.

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    This is horrible, I remember they did the same thing with Facebook marketplace (only for everything not only NSFW lol) although you can just use a random AI generated face.

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    Several years ago, I tried making an Instagram account. It was locked immediately (on first log in). They good me to upload a selfie where I was also holding up my driver’s license.

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      This is still the case

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    Kids everywhere making deepfakes.

    Well, that law aged like milk.

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    Come to the fediverse we have porn?

    • Matt@lemmy.ml
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      Yup, we have.

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      If this law says in place and is actually enforced all fediverse instances will need to start verifying age for UK users too.

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        Is that so? Why would anyone with an instance from another country give a shit about UK law? Honest question, I have no clue about these kind of laws.

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          They’ll get blocked in the UK. Which, to be honest for a non profit fediverse instance isn’t going to be a bad thing as they’ll loose traffic alongside any donations. Expect UK based instances to start doing something for their users. But there’s lots of other verification options they could use.

          https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/protecting-children/age-checks-for-online-safety--what-you-need-to-know-as-a-user

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          The answer is if they don’t theyre supposed to be blocked in the UK. Which… Who cares. Everyone on here can use a vpn

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      I seem to remember only <7 instances allowing porn posts when I joined up. As a practical matter, I don’t remember the last time I saw porn posted from any instance besides lemmynsfw.com

      TL;DR: Porn on Lemmy is as centralized and easilly squashed by regulation as anywhere else.

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        Yeh, but it’s available through your instance even though it’s hosted there…

        Unsure how that is meant to work legally.

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          Such NSFW images and videos aren’t hosted on other instances. Not mine, and not yours, sadly.

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      Yes, the federated model might make it somewhat harder for governments to enforce these kinds of laws. Until those governments catch up. 🙁

      John Perry Barlow was right: https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence

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        balkanization of all types always seems to be the answer to these sorts of dystopian laws and i hope that it happens despite evidence contrary.

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          Yes…we should balkanize the UK and US.

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      heh, come

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