#LifeGoals
What a fuckwit.
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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.
They just need to get the fuck off of people’s life.
I think they do provide ID verification too
So the man with the most tattoos is just seeking attention?
Or maybe the government needs to keep their hands off other people’s dicks?
Nah, we enjoy having our cold, dead, clammy government hands on your dick. We have to protect the children.
- The Government
I’d be devastated if I couldn’t watch pyrn.
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.
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.
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.
Can’t raise kids? Don’t have kids. You’re not ready yet.
Parenting used to be easy so parents didn’t need any help but now it’s just too difficult and government needs to help.
Ahh ok, so that means they’re for parental leave, and free daycare/preschool, right?
And surely they’ll do something to lower the maternal and infant mortality rates, right?
And they’ll definitely make sure that we’re teaching proper sex education, and making contraceptives free and widely available in order to lower the rate of unwanted pregnancies, right?
Right??
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.
That’s when the databases become huge targets and the government officials get their everything leaked online. They voted against privacy, they can enjoy the stones they threw in the glass house they forced themselves into.
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.
Nothing will improve until the rich fear for their lives.
I’m not saying that we should start getting pitchforks or anything right now. I’m just saying that like, they need to know that that is an option and that if they keep pushing us, they’re gonna start painting targets on their own back.
I mean, that’s two billionaires down in a year, and they’re still ramping things up. Next year, it’ll be four. The year after that, it’ll be eight. And in like 15 years, we won’t have any billionaires left unless they fucking straighten up an act right.
Sometimes they will act if they fear for their moneys.
With that said it bothers me that they will always look to strike a deal with the more pacifist/less disruptive parts of a movement in order to neutralise the threat.
Which in theory means it’s useless to actually aim for a reasonable goal but rather you need to overshoot by a fair bit in order for the deal to land anywhere near what you believe is decent.
BUT when you overshoot you come across as disillusioned and a lot of people will distance from you, making any movement impossible.
waiting for the last line to start, I can’t start it myself but I’ll join when it’s time
Bystander effect
hey look the dumbass effect, you start it jackass
“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
Maybe people should care more about voting if they dont like the results. Just sayin…
Given the context of the UK political climate, who would you have voted for?
*The tories that caused brexit (along with plenty of other scandals)
*UKIP/Reform (who’s members also caused brexit)
*Lib Dems (split the left vote and help the aforementioned)
*Labour who as of the last election, hadn’t had a go at shafting us in a while
Im not saying voting isn’t important, it is. But i’m struggling to see the connection between this issue and who could be voted for.
The only party that i’ve seen against this change is Reform, but they come with more than enough baggage…
But I was told that third parties would fix everything in the US?
With literally one change, a national-level replacement of FPTP with any other ranked choice voting system (there are plenty to choose from) would make 3rd parties not only viable, but competitive. We would no longer be required to settle for the lesser of two evils, and so the evil party and the greater evil party will absolutely do everything in their power to avoid making that change.
They can’t make porn illegal yet.
More reasons for gov to track everyone with face scans
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.
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”.
Yes and again, your example is an action of directly and consensually helping kids. The kids directly get the hot dog you made. They consent to eating the hotdog. They aren’t forced to eat it. You aren’t giving the hotdog to a third person who will then eat it and then by extension later help a child in some other way. Which btw, they should be doing in the first place.
I’m gonna be the odd one out, I guess.
At a picnic, it’s likely that you’re not grilling just for the kids; and likely that grilling means you’re excluded from other activities.
Activities like playing games with said kids.
Bringing them into the picture instantly becomes manipulative, where you can make the same argument (that they need to be cooked, and someone has to do it,) without it.
Edit to add some background: I’m an uncle, but not a father. At family picnics, my bro and parents like to use my nephew and nieces as a guilt trip so I let them task dump; even though we’re organized enough they’re fairly equitable (including watching the kids as a task, even if it’s more fun.)
SiL in particular is egregious.
It’s always manipulative, even if when the child’s wellbeing is directly involved, it’s maybe called for. But that really shouldn’t t be the case at a picnic.
Most parents don’t even realize they’re doing it- ie asking you to cover their summer vacation (and not reciprocating.) at work.
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.
Well, maybe not properly
enough for it to be consistently a violation of privacy and all the rest of the terrible things it does.
Well that’s the point isn’t it
If only there was a very easy, simple way to trick the system into thinking you are an adult.
You mean a bobble head because apparently those work incredibly well.
I heard you could do it with a photograph with someone’s face in profile. Also with the Death Stranding photo mode for taking screenshots.
Yep some funco pops and whatnot, just basically any sort of smooth plastic-y face.
valve faceposer
Does he not have a printer?
I don’t get it.
The only use for a printer in this situation that I can think of is printing individual video stills and making them into an erotic flick-book, but I’m sure that’s not itPrint stuff to fool cameras. Old trick, finding new use.
Doesn’t work well on people, but it’s very diffocult to train a model on the difference between printed and real images.
I don’t think it’s that common to own a functioning printer anymore
It’s about to make a comeback.
Some of us are old enough to have a functional pre-enshittifation Brother B/W laser printer off in a dark corner of the house. It waits. It bides its time. It has a toner cartridge from the Obama administration.
Today’s greybeards might show the youngins their old box of punch cards.
The next generation, in addition to many elders wearing cat ears instead of beards, will astonish the junior engineers by clicking print and it just works!! No App? No account? No subscriptions? No driver installation? No giant bloated utility pack that installed itself when you just asked for drivers? Wait and it did that over Wi-Fi?!?! It can connect to the internet and it still does the things you ask it to do?
Whoa whoa whoa, and you don’t even have your printer gun here! How are you going to shoot it when it starts making new noises after a shady forced update?
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.
I don’t think that’s really the point.
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hmm, something tells me that facepaint will come into style in the next 10 years…
I’m honestly already thinking about anti-AI recognition make-up.
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.
It’s not a discrimination thing, I’m sure this is just facial recognition failing over his extensive facial tattoos, same as it can fail on people with very dark skin. No racism or discrimination needed to explain it, it’s just the software or sometimes even physics that causes it.
Having said that, fuck the UK government for implementing this shit.
Get your porn whilst you can because other countries will follow suit and soon even a VPN won’t save you anymore
The system is still discriminating against this guy’s face tattoos even if it’s unintentional. Hopefully they will fix the issue.
This is one of the many ethical issues that can come up when you build software. It might be just a bug for the engineers who built it but this probably ruined this guy’s whole life. I hope he can move on from this hahaha.
Agreed with all your points though. What a stupid law. It’s crazy they are popping up all over now. We are losing anonymity online. What little we had left.
I want there to be a difference between actual discrimination and just software not working the way it should be, or sometimes even physics.
Again as the example: facial recognition on people with extremely dark skin. The camera gets less light, less detail, it’s literally physics causing the issue, NOT discrimination.
If cour the that needs to be fixed but that might mean that the camera needs a small light to help, for example. Again, this is not discrimination, it’s just a consequence of having darker skin, doesn’t make anyone less or more, it is what it is.
I really get uncomfortable when people start throwing around “discrimination!!!” on things like this, because it means that in my job as a software developer now suddenly I can be called a nazi because a software method wasn’t done quite right
Don’t assume evil where plain stupidity suffices
The discrimination part comes in when the decision to use it is made. In your example that’s a huge technical flaw that makes the technology useless for a large part of the population yet someone still chose to implement it in a way that would affect people’s lives.
The technology is cool on its own but why does it need to be used if it doesn’t work correctly? If you were the person making the call and you knew the technology didn’t serve all of the people it’s supposed to in a fair way and you still choose to use it that is discrimination.
Maybe it was initially a bug but once it is identified and there is no real attempt to fix it or make a work around, that would also be discrimination. It’s not the bug that is discriminating it’s the people who allow it to persist intentionally.
The technical aspect could be a systemic SDLC problem if the software wasn’t tested on a broad enough range of users. As for what’s broad enough, that’s another issue to debate.
same as it can fail on people with very dark skin. No racism or discrimination needed to explain it
That’s a classic case of implicit racism. The technology is tailored to perform optimally against lighter toned skin, because the people building and evaluating the software are all lighter skinned, themselves. Similarly, I’m sure, the developers of the technology didn’t bother to evaluate how it would work on people with facial skin conditions, markings, or tattoos.
In classic “Move Fast and Break Things” style, they rushed an application to market that only half worked on some people, and then told anyone who would fail the check by default that this was an individual’s problem to resolve.
“Who cares if this system works for <Subset of People X>?” shows up in all sorts of lowest-bidder crap work, from medical studies to mechanical engineering. Whether its left-handed car drivers get fucked by a right-hand favorable design or clinical trials that just didn’t bother including women as subjects or dark-skinned people failing facial recognition, the implicit bigotry of poor engineering is rampant in our modern world.
do not assume malice when incompetence suffices
Or, in this case, physics. You assume that, where physics is the issue, it must be racism because… Everything is racism, I guess?
Dark skin color reflect less light. Somebody with an extremely dark skinay actually reflect so little light that it’s harder to make out details. Could this be adjusted for? Up to certain levels, I’m sure. Should we call everything racist automatically?
Probably not
But
Dark skin color reflect less light.
Imagine a world in which every picture of a white person came out with them looking olive green.
And imagine the camera company - based out of the ultra-wealth Ethiopian tech sector that holds all the patents on the technology - putting out a PR brief that says “Nothing we can do. Human skin isn’t supposed to be that reflective.”
Could this be adjusted for?
Yes. But it would require people to acknowledge the problem and care enough to fix it.
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It’s all part of the plan. Only this time they let the cousins across the pond do the first significant move.
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.
Don’t forget people of any color but white having any kind of fun. That’s shameful, too!
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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”
I don’t think they view it as a problem
