and it has no interest in your identity.
what blatant lies.
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Wanker loicense
When I was 6, I earned my pen licence at school.
Now as an adult, who do I need to prove my proficiency to in order to receive my wanking licence?
The wank auditor will see you now.
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What prevents you from uploading a picture of someone else?
What prevents you from uploading a picture of someone else?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_you%27re_a_dog
It gets you to turn your head. It's not just a selfi.
You must show your id to access NSFW subreddits!
"oh no!"
changes www.reddit.com to old.reddit.com on the adress bar
"anyways"
Tho i remember when they removed compact reddit. But i think if they remove old.reddit.com, people will really start to leave, so they'll try to get rid of it quietly.
I do wonder how long they'll let old.reddit.com stay. I assume they don't want it but are worried about the backlash
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surely nothing could go wrong with this
Several years ago, I tried making an Instagram account. It was locked immediately (on first log in). They good me to upload a selfie where I was also holding up my driver's license.
This is still the case
Kids everywhere making deepfakes.
Well, that law aged like milk.
Come to the fediverse we have porn?
Yes, the federated model might make it somewhat harder for governments to enforce these kinds of laws. Until those governments catch up. 🙁
John Perry Barlow was right: https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence
balkanization of all types always seems to be the answer to these sorts of dystopian laws and i hope that it happens despite evidence contrary.
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I seem to remember only <7 instances allowing porn posts when I joined up. As a practical matter, I don't remember the last time I saw porn posted from any instance besides lemmynsfw.com
TL;DR: Porn on Lemmy is as centralized and easilly squashed by regulation as anywhere else.
Yeh, but it's available through your instance even though it's hosted there.....
Unsure how that is meant to work legally.
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If this law says in place and is actually enforced all fediverse instances will need to start verifying age for UK users too.
Is that so? Why would anyone with an instance from another country give a shit about UK law? Honest question, I have no clue about these kind of laws.
The answer is if they don't theyre supposed to be blocked in the UK. Which... Who cares. Everyone on here can use a vpn
They'll get blocked in the UK. Which, to be honest for a non profit fediverse instance isn't going to be a bad thing as they'll loose traffic alongside any donations. Expect UK based instances to start doing something for their users. But there's lots of other verification options they could use.
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I will straight up never give any social media site a real email address let alone a photo of myself.
With 72 years it is insulting for me to have to prove my age and the only thing they will prove will be my middle finger 😡
Question for a nuclear armed friend:
Besides football and good panAsian food, what exactly are we keeping terf island around for?
The lead belt and a comically large toy company.
I'm sorry but I can't live in a world without derivative British TV documentaries.
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This is horrible, I remember they did the same thing with Facebook marketplace (only for everything not only NSFW lol) although you can just use a random AI generated face.
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