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.
this post was submitted on 31 Jul 2025
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Not saying that he should have to do this -- but I bet he could apply foundation+concealer to cover them up.
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Thankful for them trying to protect our virgin eyes from the ravages of a dirty word, but the extra letters r n are too triggering, and they've scarred our delicate, snowflake lives.
Is there some remedy they can offer to atone for inflicting this trauma on us?
“Ah good, finally have some alone time. Just gotta go put on a full face of caked-on concealer before I can jork it.”
Sail the high seas, friends.
Note to self: Sell realistic masks so adult Brits can watch llama Pr0n.
Out of curiosity, what does the law say exactly? Is distributing porn without age verification illegal? Like, if I set up a a 'take one, leave one' free porn box, would using it be illegal?
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OI YOO GOH A LOISESNCE FORE THAHT PHORN?
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.
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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 ?" 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.
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Back to wooded areas for you, my friend