Remember in 2012 how everyone was horrified when an authoritarian government like China forced everyone to disclose their identities to get online so they could track and censor them?

Now the authoritarians are here.

Yeah, that's not making lists of dissenters... /s

Sounds like it's time for those subreddits to find new homes on non-UK instances of Lemmy.

We're gonna be sending AI generated photos to AI powered age verifiers to read AI generated articles about the latest developments in AI.

Call your reps if you don't want that shit in the US.

https://time.com/7288539/kids-online-safety-act-status-what-to-know/

casually slides IP address across English Channel to France

If the kids can't see the horrors of war [crimes], they're more likely to be convinced of being participants.

It's crazy that we have website that are just outlets for war gore to begin with. The "solution" to the social rot that is monetization of war pornography appears to be adding a bunch of faces to a big database marked "Adult", I guess?

Who does this even benefit, other than data warehousing and aggregation companies?

How do they verify the selfie is actually the user?

Hey, we wouldn't want young people to know that they're being propagandized by the state of Israel to ignore a genocide, would we? Let's block them from informing themselves under the guise of "protecting" them from porn, which they'll still be able to get to from shadier websites that bombard them with malware. Yeah, that's the solution.

Politicians are so out of touch. Also, all zionists can rot in hell.

Oh, so this is what VPNs are used for?

https://social-rise.com/blog/list-of-nsfw-subreddits says there are 10476 NSFW subreddits so is this the first of a 5238 long list of articles that all say "UK Users need to post selfie or photo id to view ... and ..."?

Yeah, this is what happens when you write laws with vague language. Companies will always err on the side of caution.

https://old.reddit.com/r/ukrainewarfootage

seems to work

Nobody uses the new reddit ux, right?

Lol no.

They tried that crap already with the black-identifying subs, and surprise surprise they don't actually approve your posts once you follow all the stipulations. They make note of your race and keep you in a "list", reasoning that you didn't meet several "off the book" regulations (gee... why does that sound familiar to any POC applying for a job or an apartment...).

Don't give them any information. You still won't get access, and now they have your personal data.

I wonder if this will affect RSS feeds