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Finally it seems the end of Reddit is near.

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[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Is it just a selfie? I can still access NSFW reddit content without even logging in though.

Is it only a selfie? AI gen go brrr?

[–] rozodru@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

just use one of the libreddit instances like safereddit.com or something. I mean why would you need to comment in a NSFW subreddit? worse comes to worse just use a VPN like mullvad. So many ways to circumvent this.

[–] coolmojo@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)
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[–] bigbabybilly@lemmy.world 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Nah. An image of government ID. “But we don’t need your information, just confirmation of age” 🫠 forget that.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 0 points 6 days ago

I don't have any government ID

[–] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Bet that this won’t stop anyone from using it. People are sheep. Easily pacified and all too willing to give up whatever is requested for even the tiniest of endorphin boosts.

That said, as someone who has posted stuff like that and had it spread without my consent, screw (very much not literally) consuming that shit without taking the same risks as the people sharing what they get off to.

I do think its gross to require it for the other NSFW stuff. Drug forums are very important resources for harm reduction.

[–] Capricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Didn't they ban NSFW a year ago?

Not globally at least. Let's just say I have an inside source

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[–] genevieve@sh.itjust.works 369 points 1 week ago (8 children)

“Reddit has stressed that this system is only to verify users' age, and it has no interest in your identity. Lee further stated that Persona won't know what subreddits you visit, and has promised it won't keep users' uploaded images more than seven days.”

Press X to doubt.

[–] dugmeup@lemmy.world 143 points 1 week ago (4 children)
[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 100 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Under the new UK law, lemmynsfw would also need to have some kind of age verification for UK users.

[–] donuts@lemmy.world 129 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This. Can't believe we're seeing "lol Reddit sucks" when this is a country-wide implementation and has nothing to do with Reddit in particular.

[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 54 points 1 week ago (6 children)
[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 1 points 5 days ago

Something similar is coming to Australia as well.

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[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 68 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Real talk - or what? If LemmyNSFW isn't based in the UK, what can they do?

Block it? I'd rather have that than deal with processing users face data.

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[–] genevieve@sh.itjust.works 168 points 1 week ago (9 children)

The “won’t somebody please think of the children” rhetorical tactic is always just a pretext for authoritarianism, mass surveillance and data privacy intrusion. Always. It’s the perfect motte-and-bailey: when you attack the actual motives, the motte becomes, “So you don’t care about children?”

[–] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 72 points 1 week ago

UK is full blown authoritarian now. They have been arresting journalists who are covering the genocide in Gaza and designated a direct action protest group as a terrorist organisation.

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[–] BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world 123 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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.

[–] SippyCup@feddit.nl 62 points 1 week ago

The online safety act isn't actually about protecting children. That's a smoke screen for a surveillance bill. They want to eliminate anonymity online.

[–] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 50 points 1 week ago (18 children)

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

[–] jasory@programming.dev 1 points 6 days ago

Your solution is worse.

As is, it is the responsibility of the content provider to make sure that they are distributing only to people who are legally allowed to have it.

With age-verification the user has to prove that they are allowed to access the content, then the site can distribute it to them.

Your approach is to distribute the content by default and only deny it to ChildDevices. In order for this to work at all, you have to mandate that children can only use ChildDevices. This is soooo much worse than simply requiring that adults who want to see certain content have to prove that they can legally access it. If adults have reservations about providing ID for pornography, the loss of such content seems to be much less than denying children Internet access. (Although, I'm sure that Lemmings would disagree for obvious reasons).

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[–] ageek@lemmy.world 106 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Next in the news: "500k Usernames, Passwords and biometric data leaked in the latest hack"

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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

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 78 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Yeah, fuck all that.

Guess we're transitioning into a VPN only future.

We have the opportunity to head into a utopic or dystopic future and we're absolutely choosing the dystopic one.

[–] plz1@lemmy.world 49 points 1 week ago (6 children)

They'll criminalize personal VPN users for non-work purposes, next.

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[–] bnrnrtbgd@sh.itjust.works 70 points 1 week ago (18 children)

If the UK is going to require adult verification it should be built into your internet contract. Yeah, I'm an adult. I'm paying my bills, of course I'm a fucking adult. I over pay for this garbage internet.

Uploading a selfie? The ai is going to determine if you're over 18? Can the ai determine if the selfie is also ai?

[–] Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club 1 points 6 days ago

Just send an AI selfie problem solved.

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[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 69 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world 69 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well, I guess i am going to be regularly updating the metadata on my most recent selfie.

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[–] jjmoldy@lemmy.world 62 points 1 week ago (8 children)

POV: You're the intern tasked with reviewing the selfies.

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[–] Outwit1294@lemmy.today 57 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This whole thing is a security disaster waiting to happen.

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[–] jhoward@lemmy.sdf.org 51 points 1 week ago (14 children)

What's to stop uploading a random picture of a person? Or even an AI generated person? I get what they're trying to do, but seems like legislative theater more than anything.

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[–] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 49 points 1 week ago (3 children)

u/spez was the lead moderator of r/jailbait, and when he was caught, he got rid of mod transparency. Ghilisaine Maxwell was likely a l lead moderator of news Reddits as well (u/MaxwellHill). Reddit has always been compromised.

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[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Lmao when the "anonymous" online forum requires de-anonymizing, I want to hope everyone leaves

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