Finally it seems the end of Reddit is near.
How about I upload a dick Pic? That should do.
Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits
Submitted 8 months ago by themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to technology@lemmy.world
https://mashable.com/article/reddit-age-verification-check-uk-law-online-safety
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jjlinux@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Darkenfolk@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
“That’s a crime what you are doing” “What, taking a leak?” “No, holding a little boy’s dick”
laugh track playing, with accompanying drumroll
jjlinux@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
🤣🤣🤣
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 8 months ago
“Stephen Fry has an awful lot of Reddit accounts.”
frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world 8 months ago
This is the facebook “show a video of your face” bs all over again. glad i don’t use 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
Jhex@lemmy.world 8 months ago
is reddit still alive? it must be 100% bot on bot action by now…
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Probably. reddit has tons of content from back when humans were the dominant posters there and that comes up in search results. I can see a future where text searches will turn up reddit posts much lik image searches flood you with pinterest shit.
Jhex@lemmy.world 8 months ago
techno-archeology is a thing I guess
DrDickHandler@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Lemmy is heavily botted as well. They are the ones making the majority of the posts.
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
no?
IllNess@infosec.pub 8 months ago
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…
NostraDavid@programming.dev 8 months ago
Are they asking for selfies, or selfies of the user? Important difference.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 8 months ago
And it would know the difference how?
regedit@feddit.online 8 months ago
They've been doing that for most NSFW communities for a while. It's called a Verification Post.
elfin8er@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Verification posts are only for if you’re uploading photos. This new verification will be required before you can even view these communities.
Damaskox@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I also think you don’t need to identify yourself in those? Like, you show your Internet nickname only?
regedit@feddit.online 8 months ago
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!
ageek@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Next in the news: “500k Usernames, Passwords and biometric data leaked in the latest hack”
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
So…coming soon: an app that can match up images of friends or colleagues with a summary of their pornography preferences.
This could at least liven up some boring meetings or dull parties…
tempest@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Remember those are just the ones you hear about. Plenty happen and are never talked about by either side for obvious reasons.
MangoCats@feddit.it 8 months ago
Who is not “Rick Rolling” this with a selfie of a stock photo (or a frame from “Never Gonna Give you Up”?)
Lumidaub@feddit.org 8 months ago
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)
HubertManne@piefed.social 8 months ago
Makes sense. How do they know your a male looking for hetero pic unless you send them your penis to prove it.
berno@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Fuck Reddit fuck spez
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Blackmist@feddit.uk 8 months ago
Just post on them. Two birds with one stone.
But if you do comply, double down by ringing Kier Starmer up and letting him (and your local MP) know what you’ve been wanking off to, since he’s so fucking interested. He could have blocked this, but he let it run because he also agrees with it.
I wonder if there’s a browser addon to make an itemised list of all the videos and camgirls and then I can send it to him on a regular basis. It should log when you close the browser window so it knows when you’ve “finished” so to speak. Maybe I could highlight those videos in bold for him, so he can skip right to the good ones.
tarknassus@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Browser history? Just export as html or something and email it over…
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
this is actually a really good idea. nice proposal
AbidanYre@lemmy.world 8 months ago
There’s an app for that. Talk to Mike Johnson.
AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Perfect use for that old “This Person Doesn’t Exist” website.
AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Like father, like son, I guess.
nyan@lemmy.cafe 8 months ago
Why do I have a feeling that a handful of people are going to suddenly become n-tuplets?
Outwit1294@lemmy.today 8 months ago
This whole thing is a security disaster waiting to happen.
Darleys_Brew@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
“Oops, our password was ‘Reddit’ and we’ve had a leak” in coming.
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Username: admin Password: admin
lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Well, I guess i am going to be regularly updating the metadata on my most recent selfie.
TheBat@lemmy.world 8 months ago
pHr34kY@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’d send them a pic of my hairy bollocks as proof.
fittedsyllabi@lemmy.world 8 months ago
They better be NSFW selfies.
db2@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Sharpies
teft@piefed.world 8 months ago
Going the way of tumblr? I’m sure it will work out well for them. /s
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
does the federated nature of lemmy/piefed/kbin/etc prevent governments from taking action against them?
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
It makes it harder at least.
The government can try to take action on an instance, but there’s still every other instance.Outwit1294@lemmy.today 8 months ago
Kind of
chunes@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I can’t tell you how tired I am of hearing about all the absolutely inane batshit coming out of the UK. Holy shit your country is a dumpster fire.
plumbercraic@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
Lol. Fuck off reddit.
BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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.
CalipherJones@lemmy.world 8 months ago
If a politician says it’s to help this children, it’s almost safe to assume they themselves rape children, at least in America.
SippyCup@feddit.nl 8 months 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.
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
that's what happens when the uk has had 40+ years of constant tory rule (and yes blue labour are tories)
ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 8 months ago
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 8 months 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).
iii@mander.xyz 8 months ago
Adult privacy will be compromised.
Goal achieved. “Think of the children” is subterfuge.
anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
I don’t think this is a good idea…
This is even more invasive - it would mean all the traffic and activity in every device would be traceable to a registration. Whereas now they might have a pretty good lock on individual device ids, they’d then have an actual registry of devices and owners to verify it against
aceshigh@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The arguments that I’ve seen against that is that the problem is the hardware. The child can figure out/find a hack to circumvent the restrictions. A determined 11/12 year old could do it. They’re the ones who still need restriction.
squaresinger@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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.
That’s kinda the case right now already, but the problem is that adult-only sites don’t work with that currently.
So the right solution would be to mandate that e.g. all sites are required to return a header with an age recommendation or something similar, so that a device set to child-mode then can block all these sites. And if a site doesn’t set the header, it will also get blocked on child-mode devices
Wouldn’t be too hard to do, and accidental overblocking would only occur on child-mode devices, so there’s not much of a loss there.
Legislation could then be focussed on mandating that these headers aren’t falsely set (e.g. a porn site setting the header to child-friendly).
bnrnrtbgd@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
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 8 months ago
Just send an AI selfie problem solved.
Denjin@lemmings.world 8 months ago
What if I’m actually a set of traffic lights and the AI can’t work out what I am from my selfie?
essteeyou@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I identify as a zebra crossing.
TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Yeah, it’s some serious BS. They are forcing you to hand over and trust Reddit with your personal information, yet I wouldn’t trust them if my life depended on it.
At the very least, someone in charge of this legisltion should learn OAuth2 and force the sites they want to comply by only let those OAuth2 accounts access their adult content. If I was in the UK, I’d just pay for a VPN over giving my photo to Reddit. That site is a lobby brigade hellhole whose “we know your dark secrets, we know everything” owner is also probably trading your account details on the side.
fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 8 months ago
Can the AI determine if I’m just uploading photos of Kier Starmer as my ID?
tempest@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
The current answer is that it is very difficult to determine if something was AI generated at scale, and if someone puts some effort in its effectively impossible currently.
mbirth@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
it should be built into your internet contract
This works fine with personal contracts like your mobile. (EE has a porn filter that you can disable in your account.)
But it doesn’t quite work for contracts that usually have multiple users. Like your home Internet. Because a child could connect to your WiFi and access that shmutz.
notarobot@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Then have the ISPs provide an interface to set which devices can access porn. No ID required.
bnrnrtbgd@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Parental controls exist. Why should single adults be forced to jump through hoops because most parents are lazy fucks who don’t take responsibility for their kids?
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 8 months ago
So can I upload a dick pic?
daggermoon@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That’s what you get for using Reddit.
floofloof@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Unfortunately it’ll be what UK users get for using any site, since it’s the law.
Perspectivist@feddit.uk 8 months ago
This applies to every single site that hosts adult content - not just reddit.
misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
To follow compliance with the Know Your Customer Pornographic Materials Act, please use the following guidelines for your photograph:
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The picture must be clear, at least 720x480p.
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The picture must include your entire body, including your head and toes. Portrait only. *This helps us identify you better.
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Please remove any articles of clothing, your body must be unimpeded by any obstruction. *Burqas and other headscarves must be removed, no exceptions.
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If you were assigned female at birth, you will be required to rotate 180 degrees and upload another portrait photograph of your back. *Please use only your valid binary gender at birth, either male or female.
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Further requests for identification photos are at our discretion, our board has full authority. You may be required to upload alternative photos, such as positions bending over to help us identify your genitalia to ensure it matches your birth gender.
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crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Lmao when the “anonymous” online forum requires de-anonymizing, I want to hope everyone leaves
HereIAm@lemmy.world 8 months ago
To be clear, this is a UK law now applied to any website that serves UK citizens. Anything that hosts adult content requires UK citizens to provide some form of age verification. Like a photo (for AI age estimation), credit card, utility bills, and so on. The government is dumb, and I guess it’s time to just sit on VPNs 24/7 now.
spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
To your point, it’s insane how much data reddit collects about you.
whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Some people will leave, the rest will ride it out as Reddit continues to transform itself into Facebook