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[-] _AutumnMoon_ 19 points 13 hours ago

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

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 11 points 15 hours ago

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

[-] mr2meows@pawb.social 2 points 13 hours ago

valve faceposer

[-] Sinatra@lemmings.world 2 points 11 hours ago

Pretty soon it'll be illegal to masturbate over anything but a picture of the king.

[-] deaf_fish@midwest.social 33 points 22 hours 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 10 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours 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.

[-] deaf_fish@midwest.social 8 points 20 hours ago

Christian nationalists say that porn shouldn't exist while watching a lot of porn and they would get mad if someone took away their porn. They only want others to not watch porn.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

Christian nationalists say that other people shouldn't watch porn but that they've figured out a curious caveat within the faith that exempts them, personally. Then they establish special repositories of pornographic material that serve as an incentive for membership and a form of blackmail against turncoats.

Porn becomes a more direct means of patriarchal control - both in how it restricts which senior members are allowed to buy it and (in turn) which women are allowed to sell it, and at what price. It is a form of societal monopsony intended to make sex work a privilege afforded to elites at below market rates.

[-] TeddE@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago

They all have Sunday brain. Living one life Sunday morning that's just disconnected from their choices they make the rest of the week.

But, that's indoctrination for you. The most infuriating part is when otherwise good & great people decide that calling themselves Christian, setting themselves up as human shields for all the abusive controlling monsters among their number. They'll say the monster is 'a sinner' and 'doesn't represent our values' while rushing to the defense of Christianity. They'd rather white-wash the Christian label than fix the structural abuse done by by 'their neighbors' (but it's never their church that's the problem).

[-] aceshigh@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago

Yeah. Except these “Christians” also love to rape children. It’s pure projection on their part.

[-] TeddE@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

They're usually (usually) not the same individuals, but the evil ones deliberately use the "good" ones as a shield. They're a happy to rally as Christians to any attack from outside the religion, but will write off abuses they see internally as "not my church".

[-] biofaust@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day 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 28 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours 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.

[-] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 9 points 20 hours ago

The age old problem of "if you remove rights from criminals, you can just change the definition of crime to encompass the people you don't like"

[-] prole 5 points 20 hours ago

I don't think they view it as a problem

[-] TeddE@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

Don't forget people of any color but white having any kind of fun. That's shameful, too!

🙄

[-] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 18 points 23 hours 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?

[-] OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml 8 points 22 hours ago

Selfie doesn't work, you need to turn your head left and right to follow instructions.

But yeah, there's a bunch of avatars that will bypass it

[-] Witchfire@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago

GMod apparently works lol

[-] Vreyan31@reddthat.com 1 points 14 hours ago

The simplist answer is that this guy could buy some high-coverage foundation and a make-up sponge. He could change his appearance in other ways too if he likes - get a wig, fake nose, etc.

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 1 points 12 hours ago

He should put lemon slices over his eyes to complete the look.

[-] Mike_Hunt@lemmy.ml 4 points 17 hours ago

Back to wooded areas for you, my friend

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day 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 1 day ago

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

[-] Wazowski@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago

I'd be devastated if I couldn't watch pyrn.

[-] SynonymousStoat@lemmy.world 235 points 1 day ago

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 172 points 1 day 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 63 points 1 day 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 19 points 1 day ago

Nothing will improve until the rich fear for their lives.

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[-] dukeofdummies@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago

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

[-] JennyLaFae 9 points 1 day ago

I'm honestly already thinking about anti-AI recognition make-up.

[-] Zink@programming.dev 6 points 22 hours ago

I want to go full cyberpunk and get QR codes tattooed on my cheeks that will either crash the cameras or tell the recognition software that I’m a stegosaurus.

[-] nukeforyou2@lemmy.ml 249 points 1 day ago

you're allowed to say PORN on the internet

[-] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 76 points 1 day ago

Sobering how all the tech bro social sites are programming people to self-censor so the bots don't cull their posts. The Internet is turning into a shitfuck.

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[-] uriel238 14 points 1 day 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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[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 100 points 1 day 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.

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