On one hand this guy has a hell of a hobby that seems like it steps on everything else in his life. On the other its amazing dude exists to fuck with normative behavior and policies that exist to keep people down.
OI YOO GOH A LOISESNCE FORE THAHT PHORN?
Let this man watch porn without giving out any of his personal information. I too want to watch porn without giving out any of my personal information. You do too, if you watch porn.
The people making the rules know this. They just … in their Christian nationalist hearts believe porn shouldn’t exist. And since there’s too much precedent to simply make it illegal (they’ve tried before). So here they’re trying to make watching it as painful and degrading as humanly possible.
In other words, you’re not wrong - just preaching to the choir.
Yeah. Except these “Christians” also love to rape children. It’s pure projection on their part.
They’re usually (usually) not the same individuals, but the evil ones deliberately use the “good” ones as a shield. They’re a happy to rally as Christians to any attack from outside the religion, but will write off abuses they see internally as “not my church”.
Christian nationalists say that porn shouldn’t exist while watching a lot of porn and they would get mad if someone took away their porn. They only want others to not watch porn.
They all have Sunday brain. Living one life Sunday morning that’s just disconnected from their choices they make the rest of the week.
But, that’s indoctrination for you. The most infuriating part is when otherwise good & great people decide that calling themselves Christian, setting themselves up as human shields for all the abusive controlling monsters among their number. They’ll say the monster is ‘a sinner’ and ‘doesn’t represent our values’ while rushing to the defense of Christianity. They’d rather white-wash the Christian label than fix the structural abuse done by by ‘their neighbors’ (but it’s never their church that’s the problem).
What a fuckwit.
They just need to support alternate verification paths for people like him, and people who have otherwise been disfigured.
They should sue for discrimination if steps are not quickly taken to support their situations.
It’s funny how this turns into the gov needing to provide equal access to porn.
I think they do provide ID verification too
So the man with the most tattoos is just seeking attention?
Or maybe the government needs to keep their hands off other people’s dicks?
Nah, we enjoy having our cold, dead, clammy government hands on your dick. We have to protect the children.
- The Government
They just need to get the fuck off of people’s life.
“Ah good, finally have some alone time. Just gotta go put on a full face of caked-on concealer before I can jork it.”
You’ve met with a terrible fate, haven’t you?
“Whaddaya mean I can’t watch porn???”
King Of Ink Land King Body Art The Extreme Ink-Ite has written to his local MP to air his grievances.
Holy shit. That’s his legal name?!
For King of Ink Land, this is particularly tricky as the system believes he’s wearing a mask – but it’s actually his tattoo-covered face.
So is it first name ‘King of Ink Land’, last name ‘King Body Art The Extreme Ink-Ite’? Or is there a middle name in there?
The King of Ink Land, who is now considering using a VPN, was attempting to access a live webcam site when the issue arose.
Whoa whoa whoa. “The” King of Ink Land? That’s his name, not a title!
Godspeed, King of Ink Land. I sincerely wish you success in this fight.
There’s no such thing as “legal names” in the UK.
People don’t need to file paperwork to change their name? They just start using a new one on legal documents?
Correct. We can have as many names as we like too.
However there’s various documents available that are proof that one is using a name. So for example my bank wouldn’t let me change my name unless I present something like a deed poll. Said deed poll is literally just a print out with some stock phrasing and the signatures of two witnesses.
We don’t have a central database that covers everyone in Britain (unlike, say, Sweden). If I want to change my name I can just start using the new one. Amusingly lots of people in the UK don’t know this and are sure it’s not the case. I ended up switching banks because the final straw was how poorly the staff were trained on the subject. My new bank and the DVLA did not have similar weird ideas, thankfully, so now my name is updated on my driving licence, etc…
The true King of United Kingdom.
Out of curiosity, what does the law say exactly? Is distributing porn without age verification illegal? Like, if I set up a a ‘take one, leave one’ free porn box, would using it be illegal?
Feed the need to breed! (Or at least trick your brain into thinking you are.)
From here
It’s all part of the plan. Only this time they let the cousins across the pond do the first significant move.
hmm, something tells me that facepaint will come into style in the next 10 years…
I’m confused, can’t literally anyone just generate an AI selfie to submit for the censorship?
A couple news cycles ago was just talking about how AI video and image generation has progressed so far that it is really difficult for any system to tell it is AI in some cases. This seems like the perfect usecase for that.
Or does it need to link to a real person ID or something?
In the US you submit your ID, no face scan that im aware of (yet).
Selfie doesn’t work, you need to turn your head left and right to follow instructions.
But yeah, there’s a bunch of avatars that will bypass it
GMod apparently works lol
He knows that video games where you can pose the character can bypass it, right?
Iirc death stranding and a few others have been shown to work.
Alternatively VPNs work.
Or piracy.
I don’t think that’s really the point.
How about… People are paid as age verifiers. Win, win. More jobs, lower chance of data being stolen, maybe more awkwardness if you came across your partner on the other end of the teleconference call.
Or, how about this, bring back porn theatres. Industry gets paid from ticket sales, you have a ticket person who can ask for ID.
Also, is porn really that damaging to kids? I remember when there were videos circulating from beheadings and that was far more traumatising.
First thing I thought of was what if your family like aunt/uncle or cousin has this kind of job… that’d be way awkward.
Probably the more desirable dystopian future, to be honest.
Doesn’t need to be?
“Oh, hi Andrew why are you here?”
“Got a bottle of wine with my Asda order and need to go through this circus again…”
“Well enjoy your wine, age approved, see you!”
call disconnects, browser goes back to not-Asda
I like the rest of your points, but moving verification off to a different private companies is not solving anything. Why would a second company not sell your data or make it easy to steal?
Why privatise though? Or if you do privatise, pass legislation to make data trading illegal unless you pay the person whose data is bring traded or make it outright illegal. Or figure out a way to make the data completely useless. Perhaps banning advertising and marketing or limiting what they can do. So many possibilities for a better future than this.
People are paid as age verifiers. Win, win. More jobs
Broken window fallacy
Oi bruv, this wanker thinks it’s bollocks.
