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Lmao when the "anonymous" online forum requires de-anonymizing, I want to hope everyone leaves
To your point, it's insane how much data reddit collects about you.
Some people will leave, the rest will ride it out as Reddit continues to transform itself into Facebook
This is a combination of terrible legislation in the UK meets awful social media site.
The Online Safety Act is an abomination, compromising the privacy and freedom of the vast majority of the UK in the name of "protecting children".
I'm of the view parents are responsible for protecting their children. I know it's hard but the Online Safety Act is not a solution.
All it will.do is compromise the privacy and security of law abiding adults while kids will still access porn and all the other really bad stuff on the Internet will actually be unaffected. The dark illegal shit on the Internet is not happening on Pornhub or Reddit.
The UK is gradually sliding further and further into censorship, and authoritarianism and all the in the name of do gooders. It's scary to watch.
If a politician says it's to help the children, it's almost safe to assume they themselves rape children, at least in America.
The solution to all of this “think of the children” stuff is that devices owned/used by children should have to be registered as a child’s device, which would enable certain content blockers.
Forcing adults to verify their identity, rather than simply activating some broad based restrictions on devices being purchased for child use, is a waste of time. Kids will still find workarounds. Adult privacy will be compromised.
Its also an easily enforceable policy to require registration of children’s devices. You can hold the parents to compliance. You can hold the carriers to compliance. Its truly the simplest way to keep kids from accessing porn without having to mess with adult use of the internet whatsoever
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...yet the most wonderful thing about the atman-brahma is that everyone is no one and everyone...anonymity is required for nirvana...
I didn't expect to find my fellow Advaitins on this particular thread, but hello, well met!
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There's a bunch of AI face generating pictures. I wonder if you can just use those. Or maybe this is just to create a new law to arrest people of uploading fake pictures...
Are they asking for selfies, or selfies of the user? Important difference.
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This is the facebook "show a video of your face" bs all over again. glad i don't have an account on either site bc not only is it a huge privacy concern, you know they store all that data and are going to sell it and/or use it to train AI models
does the federated nature of lemmy/piefed/kbin/etc prevent governments from taking action against them?
Question in general about that UK law while there's people here who seem to know things: What about my private, personal website that I run as a hobby? If I have nsfw content on there* that I made myself with (one of (lolamirite)) my own two hands for free with no monetary gain whatsoever, they can't expect me to implement age verification, can they?
* (I don't right now, calm down)
Edit: any non-profit thing, really. AO3?
Yeah, I will definitely trust an internet stranger with my face so they can verify that I'm not underage to access content which could, in case of being leaked, damage my reputation or even destroy my life.
DEFINITELY
They've been doing that for most NSFW communities for a while. It's called a Verification Post.
Verification posts are only for if you're uploading photos. This new verification will be required before you can even view these communities.
Sorry, that comment was sarcasm. Or, maybe they could use the same pic for both types of verification. Hang some brain with your face and make someone's day (or nightmare), was my point!
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