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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.

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.

Those that have entered into the shadow contract. A shadow contract is one of few mechanisms to enter large-scale consensus (it isn't THAT large when compared to a solar or galactic scale, but large enough for planetary control, and with some clever management, can scale larger).

Consensus requires untrusted sovereigns agreeing to collective action. It is a very difficult mechanism to operate. One way is by having a crime so heinous, the mass population block would eviscerate you if it came to light.

Pedophilia is king among these shadow cornerstones. It illustrates a total lack of empathy, no protective nature towards the innocent, no concern for the perceptions of society, high intellect / manipulation abilities, and a willingness to do anything. You can say it is the "panther" among the shadows.

So most leadership is among that tribe, which is why they are the way they are. It is only logical.

There are other tribes as well. Use your imagination and the answers will follow.

Funny thing, Reddit did that "circle" event many years ago. How big did anyone's circle get? That is an example of what I am explaining. It is nearly game theoretically impossible to have large scale consensus without some mechanism to make sure people are on the same page.

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?

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

This applies to every single site that hosts adult content - not just reddit.

Maybe they'll just make the Fediverse illegal in the UK. Or all non-corporate sites that can't afford to pay a company like Persona.

The photo will be uploaded to Persona, not Reddit, if their blurb is to be believed. But yes, it's nuts, and also now required by law.

Not the norm here in Canada. Not with any banking app I've used anyway.

Lol. Fuck off reddit.

Unfortunately it'll be what UK users get for using any site, since it's the law.

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.

Can the AI determine if I'm just uploading photos of Kier Starmer as my ID?

While I don't know this situation, in general it tends to be up to the site to block access, rather than the other way around. If they don't, some government branch may issue a fine to the server owners, and if it doesn't get paid it's seen as a crime committed in the UK. Might mean the fineé gets banned, the country they live in might get an extradition order, or whatever.

Again, no idea about this case in particular. This is just based on what I've seen under similar rulings.

Yes only the powerful Americans are pedophiles, nobody else

Well as a Lemmy admin I'll see if they seriously enforce this on international sites. If not, I won't worry about it. If so, the UK gets blocked.

I doubt they'll be going after niche sites anyway. Big dogs like reddit, sure. Sites dedicated to porn probably. Everyone else? Doubt it.

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).

Google uses reddit for its AI training. Just saying.

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.