Since when did keeping kids off of porn sites become everyone else's problem and not the problem of parents? Oh, right, that's just a bullshit reason to make accessing porn more difficult and a security risk since they can't just make porn illegal.

[-] cley_faye@lemmy.world 177 points 2 months ago

It's not even that. Porn is just a bystander here. The first step is put in place a very large framework for making some form of verification mandatory on arbitrary services and sites under the guise of whatever (terrorism, child protection, and extremely niche content are good candidates). Once it's in place, it becomes the new normal very quickly.

Then, as the government, you suddenly have the power to extend the provision of said system to whatever the fuck you want. That's where things gets funky, and not the good kind.

[-] bizarroland@lemmy.world 65 points 2 months ago

And look at the money.

The reasoning for this is to eventually lock the internet down completely to put up fences and paywalls everywhere to every single site so that even if you pay for the privilege of using the internet, you will have to pay more money to actually use the internet.

It is all about controlling you and taking every single penny they possibly can out of your pocket.

All of the tracking, all of the identity verification, all of the invasive watching every single thing you do on your computer and your phone, everywhere, all of the time always, is all about milking you for every single penny they can.

Even though they are insanely rich, beyond the imagination of any human being that has ever lived in the hundreds of thousands of years of humanity's existence on this planet they still don't have enough money and they will still never be satisfied with how much money they have.

The fact that there are free websites where people can congregate and communicate and have fun with each other without paying them for the privilege galls them.

It grinds their heart and soul the way watching a dog get shot in the head at the end of old yeller does to a normal person.

These people are evil, and we need to stop them.

When it comes down to it, we may have to rise up and slay them.

[-] llamatron@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago

Nothing will improve until the rich fear for their lives.

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[-] 4am@lemmy.zip 35 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

“Oh look, we just banned all the opposition party from using any online services at all because (checks notes) campaigning against us is hate speech “

All you EU chatters going on about us in the US sitting on our asses and not doing anything about what’s going are gonna eat your fucking words if you don’t show us how it’s done, and quick, because they’re coming for you HARD right now

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[-] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 38 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's more than that, they want to

limit who can post and make money off porn, and no, this isn't to support small creators at all unfortunately
build massive blackmail networks
build massive sex work websites with curated AI models and videos

And yes, any time ANY ONE EVER says, "Do it for the kids, just think of the kids," when it is not something DIRECTLY and CONSENSUALLY helping kids, but instead FORCING ADULTS TO DO THINGS, is being manipulative every time.

[-] bizarroland@lemmy.world 27 points 2 months ago

The only time the phrase "do it for the kids" is actually valuable is when it's someone asking you to grill hot dogs at a picnic.

If it's a politician saying it, "do it for the kids" is slang for "bend over and take it up the ass because otherwise you're a bad person".

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[-] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I think the narrative is now that "parenting is hard" and you can't expect parents to do it right by themselves. Parenting used to be easy so parents didn't need any help but now it's just too difficult and government needs to help.

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

Can't raise kids? Don't have kids. You're not ready yet.

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[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 102 points 2 months ago

wow, they actually, properly, fully did this shit. Amazing.

So glad I left that shithole. My friends are aparantly using VPNs, which is the same fucking thing I had to use to access WIKIPEDIA in TURKEY.

[-] slate@sh.itjust.works 27 points 2 months ago

Well, maybe not properly

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

enough for it to be consistently a violation of privacy and all the rest of the terrible things it does.

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[-] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 93 points 2 months ago

I hope he sues and wins

I don’t want to know anything more about this man other than he has a lot of tattoos, likes porn, and isn’t afraid to say it.

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 20 points 2 months ago

We can also surmise that he's bad at computers.

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago

I'm sure he could probably figure out a VPN or a site that doesn't give a fuck about UK law, but chose to stir shit anyway.

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[-] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 57 points 2 months ago

King Of Ink Land King Body Art The Extreme Ink-Ite has written to his local MP to air his grievances.

Holy shit. That's his legal name?!

For King of Ink Land, this is particularly tricky as the system believes he’s wearing a mask – but it’s actually his tattoo-covered face.

So is it first name 'King of Ink Land', last name 'King Body Art The Extreme Ink-Ite'? Or is there a middle name in there?

The King of Ink Land, who is now considering using a VPN, was attempting to access a live webcam site when the issue arose.

Whoa whoa whoa. "The" King of Ink Land? That's his name, not a title!

Godspeed, King of Ink Land. I sincerely wish you success in this fight.

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[-] paraphrand@lemmy.world 39 points 2 months ago

They just need to support alternate verification paths for people like him, and people who have otherwise been disfigured.

They should sue for discrimination if steps are not quickly taken to support their situations.

It’s funny how this turns into the gov needing to provide equal access to porn.

[-] Forester@pawb.social 33 points 2 months ago

Or maybe the government needs to keep their hands off other people's dicks?

[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 13 points 2 months ago

Nah, we enjoy having our cold, dead, clammy government hands on your dick. We have to protect the children.

The Government

[-] cley_faye@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

They just need to get the fuck off of people's life.

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[-] biofaust@lemmy.world 35 points 2 months ago

From here

It's all part of the plan. Only this time they let the cousins across the pond do the first significant move.

[-] prole 29 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The line about "educators and public libraries" gives away the real game; this isn't about actual pornography at all.

The "pornography" they're referring to here is any form of media that portrays LGBTQ+ people in a neutral or positive light.

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[-] deaf_fish@midwest.social 34 points 2 months ago

Let this man watch porn without giving out any of his personal information. I too want to watch porn without giving out any of my personal information. You do too, if you watch porn.

[-] TeddE@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The people making the rules know this. They just … in their Christian nationalist hearts believe porn shouldn't exist. And since there's too much precedent to simply make it illegal (they've tried before). So here they're trying to make watching it as painful and degrading as humanly possible.

In other words, you're not wrong - just preaching to the choir.

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[-] _AutumnMoon_ 24 points 2 months ago

the greatest Onion writer could never come up with a headline like this

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago

He knows that video games where you can pose the character can bypass it, right?

Iirc death stranding and a few others have been shown to work.

Alternatively VPNs work.

Or piracy.

[-] Flamekebab@piefed.social 23 points 2 months ago

I don't think that's really the point.

[-] dukeofdummies@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago

hmm, something tells me that facepaint will come into style in the next 10 years...

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[-] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago

#LifeGoals

[-] redwattlebird@lemmings.world 20 points 2 months ago

How about... People are paid as age verifiers. Win, win. More jobs, lower chance of data being stolen, maybe more awkwardness if you came across your partner on the other end of the teleconference call.

Or, how about this, bring back porn theatres. Industry gets paid from ticket sales, you have a ticket person who can ask for ID.

Also, is porn really that damaging to kids? I remember when there were videos circulating from beheadings and that was far more traumatising.

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[-] renamon_silver@lemmy.wtf 19 points 2 months ago

You've met with a terrible fate, haven't you?

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 months ago

"Whaddaya mean I can't watch porn???"

[-] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 18 points 2 months ago

I'm confused, can't literally anyone just generate an AI selfie to submit for the censorship?

A couple news cycles ago was just talking about how AI video and image generation has progressed so far that it is really difficult for any system to tell it is AI in some cases. This seems like the perfect usecase for that.

Or does it need to link to a real person ID or something?

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[-] uriel238 14 points 2 months ago

🏴‍☠️ I live to ride the ocean
The mighty world around
To take a little plunder
And to hear the cannon sound 🦜

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[-] jsomae@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Not saying that he should have to do this -- but I bet he could apply foundation+concealer to cover them up.

[-] tempest@lemmy.ca 27 points 2 months ago

Why bother, just generate a face with some other AI and call it a day.

This entire thing is some out of touch shit.

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[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

If only there was a very easy, simple way to trick the system into thinking you are an adult.

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[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

On one hand this guy has a hell of a hobby that seems like it steps on everything else in his life. On the other its amazing dude exists to fuck with normative behavior and policies that exist to keep people down.

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[-] brax@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 months ago

Nah, maybe he has some ground to counter this insanity the government is pushing. They enacted this silly shit, and now they're violating his rights as an adult.

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