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.
this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2025
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The joke of the China comparison was that we had a bunch of libertarians screaming "We can't have social services! The government will weaponize them against us and track everything we say and do!!! Public healthcare, public transit, public education, public utilities - they're all a slippery slope to the Police State, just like in China!"
And now we get all the same mass surveillance via privatized channels, while libertarians seem to have fully clammed up (when they aren't quietly cheering on psychopaths like RFK Jr). But we get none of the public amenities. Yay... love my Freedom(TM)
Yeah, that's not making lists of dissenters... /s
Nah no problems here. Move along but before you do please leave a copy of your government id.
We're gonna be sending AI generated photos to AI powered age verifiers to read AI generated articles about the latest developments in AI.
Sounds like it's time for those subreddits to find new homes on non-UK instances of Lemmy.
All kinds of governments are rushing to implement something similar. The Fediverse solves some problems, but not the problem of a site being hosted in a single geographical location (and thus a single government's jurisdiction). To help with this there are tools like i2p that can obscure a site's hosting location, and there's also work on distributed web hosting, but the latter still seems to be in its early stages. One day maybe we'll have distributed websites that can be resilient against censorship.
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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.
Yes, politicians are way out of touch. On every level.
For Zionists... well, that just sounds like genocide with extra steps.... You'd think the Jewish diaspora would be against genocide, but here we are.
You’d think the Jewish diaspora would be against genocide, but here we are.
They're like the parents who abuses their kids because that's how they were raised.
casually slides IP address across English Channel to France
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/
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Sounds like they should use this
I heard that some of the checks require video of the person performing particular movements. So a little harder to fake with AI.
There are video deepfake systems that can animate these fictional faces. We need a catalogue of the kinds of facial positions these systems ask for
One of them that is hard is waving your hand in front of your face. It trips up almost every deepfake system I’ve seen. That’s a common test we’ve had to start using with interviewees because they’d try to game the system.
interviewees? what? where are you using this?
A little, but it will only get easier.
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?
Fascists governments that want a list of who oppose something probably
I wouldn't call it outlets for war gore. It is also about providing information that mainstream media refuses to give or intentionally distort to fit its narrative.
Infuriating and horrifying in a way that triggers my claustrophobia. Even more infuriating are the people in America who are begging for censorship. You point out what a trash heap Europe's censorship is and they shrug, as long as the censorship is by them against the "other side" whichever side that is they have no concept of what happens when that "other side" gets a hold of the reins. I would rather have to sift through 10 feet of nazi posts than have the government have a way to legitimately hold a verified list of everything everybody does.
If the kids can't see the horrors of war [crimes], they're more likely to be convinced of being participants.
I feel like this belongs here...
How do they verify the selfie is actually the user?
They don’t, people have been using death stranding 2 photo mode to get around it
Some people, certainly. Others aren't so tech savvy, so they're stuck making due.
You send another selfie of what you actually look like, so they can compare.
It's selfies all the way down.
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 ..."?
Oh, so this is what VPNs are used for?
Reddit blocks you plain and simple if you use a vpn, and has done so for a while. Also I don't see how VPN relates to them gatekeeping 2 subs behind a mandatory doxxing of yourself.
If you use a vpn you appear as a non-uk user, you don't have to show the ID. If you don't have an existing account, the only reliable source of geolocation for websites is your ip address, so a vpn can effectively circumvent that.
Oh, right. I didn't thought of that at all, I never went beyond "well, they don't let you use VPNs anyway. Man I need to sleep. And thanks for explaining.
Reddit blocks you plain and simple if you use a vpn
Not really true. Some VPN IPs are blocked, so you'd have to select a new VPN endpoint and try again.
Source: have done this multiple times when switching VPN endpoints.
Huh, just went and managed to get the frontpage after 5 tries with mullvad. To be fair haven't really tried too hard to go back on Reddit the last two years, and just assumed the blocking of IPs was stricker. Still, thanks for correcting me
Just visited with my personal VPN, which I'd advocate anyone with technical chops to spin up. Digital Ocean droplet, been in use for years with zero maintenance, $6/mo., and no one gets my logs.
Wouldn't traffic analysis be easier without having a crowd to blend into?
Yeah, this is what happens when you write laws with vague language. Companies will always err on the side of caution.
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I wonder if this will affect RSS feeds
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