The UK’s new act blocks access to adult content without identification. Turns out, you only need a copy of Death Stranding and a phone to get around it.
The great thing about the kind of idiots that pass these stupid laws is that they are idiots.
The terrible thing is that since they are idiots they won’t see this as proof that the law is stupid but instead that they should make the law stupider.
HOW DARE YOU SUGGEST THEY ADDRESS THE ROOT CAUSE OF THE PROBLEM RATHER THAN APPLY A BANDAID?!
Such an unfathomably stupid idea to use facial recognition for this. It would be funny if it weren’t so dangerous.
This is a fascist tool of surveillance capitalism, which will be sold off to data brokers and rolled into big brother sooner than later.
So let me try and think this out.
Norman Resdus’ face is used to get around this crap ----> they filter out Norman’s face ----> poor Norman Resdus can no longer use UK internet.
Couldn’t he get a VPN?
Could not everyone? Then the internet will crawl
On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a repatriate full of cryptobiotes.
That image is hilarious.
What a joke.
Damn there’s a whole bunch of Norman Resdus’ in the UK.
Well, now its government ID or straight to jail.
Another 80’s “unbelievable conspiracy theory” now (or soon) law. Hey if you get the subdermal chip its so convenient.
I assume the reason this specific tool was mentioned is that the “selfie” requires the person to be striking a specific pose. I estimate less than a week until something like the site you linked comes out which is able to do custom poses.
Cyberpunk in fiction vs this
LOL
Yet another Kojima W
you only need a copy of Death Stranding and a phone
Do you actually need the phone or can you use a screenshot?
Also, if they’re accessing Baldur’s Gate 3 fan fiction, shouldn’t they have used the photo mode from Baldur’s Gate 3? Surely no one is more entitled to read Minthara erotica than Minthara herself.
You likely can’t use a screenshot because it’s a static image
Good thing there’s tools now to make a static image move.
Pretty sure it needs a live camera to access. It’s less a photo and more a video.
Didn’t Discord add this before the UK law, tho? And can this work around be used for other photo verification things on other sites?
Anecdotally, I’m in the UK and Discord has never asked me for ID. I don’t have nitro, though, so if it’s a nitro thing I would not know
I’ve only been asked for an ID by actual human people running a discord server if I wanted to get access to their NSFW rooms. Not even by Discord itself.
I didn’t give it to the actual server ops, and I definitely wouldn’t give it to Discord itself. I don’t need to use a chatroom to get porn.
I know this is a bit different. I’m in the UK and there’s a few sites I use which can’t implement the age verification due to being a small team so they’ve straight up banned all UK traffic.
VPN to another EU location seems to work. I’m actually surprised it was that easy. It also works on a bunch of sites I wish not to have an account. Not all, but most.
The politicians who passed this are either clueless morons or are using this to push some other agenda (no idea what).
Identity theft is not a joke, but sure is useful.
