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The technology uses a phone camera to capture an image of someone’s face and calculate their likely age.
People about to view porn love to have their picture taken and uploaded to a database. I see literally no problems with this whatsoever.
Would make more sense to do that on people in the videos. Prevent child pornography or teen nudes. Let teenagers watch porn, we did that in the 90s
Oh wow wtf is going on the UK. Prohibition never works , teenagers will be more interested in it. Ways to avoid and to overcome the system will appear.
They’ve voted for conservatives 10 years running, even after realising that those same conservatives tricked them into Brexit…
…it’s a pretty ridiculous situation.
Feelin the same here in the Land of Milk and Honey.
I know that people are scared and unsure, and that always leads them directly to authoritarianism (it did after the 1918 pandemic as well, seemingly). They want to feel safe. And any big liars and charlatans that tell them whatever they want to hear to satiate their fears, they’ll believe and follow. At this point I’m flummoxed. But I know that humans are built to adapt, and all this will all soon pass as well; in the big scope of things.
Like VPNs. Pretty simple.
Downside is it will push teens to free VPNs and those are almost always malicious.
Absolutely assinine regulatory decision brewed by people that do not understand how the world or people work at all.
They understand fine, but they’re pandering to people who aren’t capable of understanding.
You know all those multicolored hats finding exploits and creating botnets and such?
Boy am I interested in hearing about some obscure specializations and hacks in about 10 years. I bet Jack Rhysider is already getting excited.
Darknet Diaries is so good! I love his show.
The technology is seen as an alternative to entering a credit card or uploading an ID because it does not involve handing over sensitive data.
Yeah sure unless you consider the depiction your face to be sensitive data, which I do.
Nah just change your face if need be.
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So they’re collecting photos of minors who are most likely naked to protect those minors from the dangers of porn? Flawless work; the children are now safe.
It will probably say “by taking selfie I confirm that I am older than 18 or at least wear clothes” so it’s fine (legally (maybe))
If you read the article it’s not about naked selfies, it’s about verifying the age of people visiting porn sites
I saw a sign up/pay wall so I didn’t bother, but on principle this is fucked up enough to baselessly mock.
Average ‘Think about the children!!!’ Enshittification.
It’s like the UK government is trying to get Chinese level content restriction without openly admitting it…
There’s a lot more in that bill than just “protect little Timmy from the big bad titties”. It also gives a duty to “protect” users from, and allow reporting of, “illegal content”, and remember folks, whats legal today may well be illegal tomorrow!
Wow i love the normalisarion of resteicting parts of the internet. Its almost fitting nineteen eigty four was set in london.
Not sure what it’s like in the UK, but some countries block all porn websites. To all ages.
We are headibg down a fucked path and its gonna damn hard to unfuck it
Or, people will get more technologically savvy on average as they try to find their way to easy porn!
Porn always wins.
Im sure they will im more woreied about how the government responds to that tho? U need a licence to use a vpn ban tor how far are they willing to go in the name of protecting the children?
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It being a bad idea aside, couldn’t teens just show the camera any picture of an adult? Supposedly the system doesn’t save the photo anywhere, so how would it know?
How are they going to stop someone bypassing it by just holding up a photo of someone older? Like cameras can’t tell the difference between 2d and 3d.
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Imagine getting carded by your phones AI (random person on task rabbit) because you look to young to look at porn.
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