France Moves to Classify X as an Adult Site Amid Digital ID Crackdown

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• nyan@lemmy.cafe ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The site formerly known as Twitter would be more respectable these days if it were a porn site.

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  • Emi@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s not? Thought that’s the main use.

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    • SpicyColdFartChamber@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I like my porn to be less faschy and more flashy.

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    • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The titter side was better

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• kokesh@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Twitter is shit, but France went really nuts.

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• Stillwater@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This is kind of hilarious. Right wingers seek to limit privacy by forcing age verification online, and then the right wing social network gets caught in the same net. It hurt itself in it’s confusion.

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• Lucky_777@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Why is anyone still on X anyway? Its AI bot trash.

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  • fakeplastic@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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    • Pnut@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      False validation is a hell of a drug.

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    • Lucky_777@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Males sense 100%

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  • JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Annoyingly many artists still use it, and for some it’s their only platform they post at any regularity, except for paid posts on patreon. I haven’t used Twitter as a social media site for almost a decade now, but my “twitter only” art list still has 18 people on it.

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  • arararagi@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Because artists are still there.

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• ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Nazi propaganda: I sleep

  Porn: Real shit

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• Lumisal@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Never expected the place known for nude beaches and a president who married a pedophile to be one that implemented this kind of block.

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• ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Sad to see France is heading this direction, Canada was very close to heading this route too, thankfully it didn’t end up that way.

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• CtrlAltDefeat@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Kids would be better off on pornhub

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• thisisnotmyhat@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Everyone should have content filtering tools. I use Adguard services for filtering my own internet (adult, Reddit, YouTube, etc.). Surely, implimenting something similar at an OS or router level would have saved us decades of pointless bickering and provided us with an actual consumer benefit?

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  • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I don’t know if they still do it, but some mobile internet providers in the UK would filter things out unless you sent them your ID to unblock it.

    Not sure it’s a great solution, but better than having to provide your ID to every random website out there.

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    • Zetta@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Having to provide Id to any entity to access internet pages is dystopian and fucked up, sounds just like the UK.

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    If you want it, that should be your right, but the government shouldn’t be forcing it on you.

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    • thisisnotmyhat@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That’s not what I’m saying. I’m saying governments could force MS, Google, Apple to implement content filtering tools at the OS level, that give users the choice to set up filtering however they want for themselves or their kids.

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  • Geist_@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    what does that have to do with France forcing you to show your ID to use Twitter?

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    • thisisnotmyhat@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Those against website age verification argue that content blocking should happen at the OS level. For example, a parent could enable the built-in “child mode” on their child’s smartphone or computer. As I understand it, that would be more effective, graceful, cheaper, free speechy, and private. To a degree, tech savvy parents (and people who block ads and other content) already do similar things with third party tools - i.e. it’s feasible.

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• kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Tbh adult content is probrally the most respectable content you can find on X, especially compared to the constant Nazis and genocide apologetic liberals.

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  • viking@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Liberals are genocide apologists?!

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• shekau@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Elon probably punching air rn

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  • Pnut@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That’s the only thing he’s ever punched.

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• Sibbo@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  If it’s just Elon who suffers I’m fine.

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• Schwim@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Everyone in France already subbed to VPNs for the pornhub block. This won’t even result in a traffic hiccup.

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• arararagi@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Why is every country dreaming of becoming south korea?

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• whotookkarl@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Why use age instead of a knowledge check instead?

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  • RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    How would that work?

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    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      POP QUIZ!
      QUICK, who was the last french president that visited Germany in 1896?

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    • PenguinJazz@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Just ask for something like “what’s the quadratic formula?”

      Tho to be fair, that would still probably block at least half of xitter’s users…

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