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.

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.

Yeah, that's not making lists of dissenters... /s

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/

How do they verify the selfie is actually the user?

Yeah, this is what happens when you write laws with vague language. Companies will always err on the side of caution.

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?

https://old.reddit.com/r/ukrainewarfootage

seems to work

Nobody uses the new reddit ux, right?

If the kids can't see the horrors of war [crimes], they're more likely to be convinced of being participants.

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.

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 ..."?

Lol no.

They tried that crap already with the black-identifying subs, and surprise surprise they don't actually approve your posts once you follow all the stipulations. They make note of your race and keep you in a "list", reasoning that you didn't meet several "off the book" regulations (gee... why does that sound familiar to any POC applying for a job or an apartment...).

Don't give them any information. You still won't get access, and now they have your personal data.

I wonder if this will affect RSS feeds

This is so they can identify everyone who uses the internet.

Remember how everyone was horrified when an authoritarian government like China forced everyone to disclose their identities to get online?

Now the authoritarians are here.

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/

Maybe just use your MP's selfie or ID? use-their-id.com

Oh this is bad. We need to move more people onto places like this. I can't say I know how though. If you have any ideas please reply to me! I would love to hear them.

UK users need photo ID to view any adult content on the internet. Those subs often include gore. I don't understand what point the author is trying to make.

Of all the things to get mad at Reddit/UK govt for age restricting, war forage should should be far down that list. Watching people get blown into pieces is literally traumatising and ideally children shouldn't be exposed to it.

UK users need to stop using Reddit and contact their representatives.

This is of course the real reason

How many users do you think are using a photo of someone else, or AI?

This situation would be so much less messy if basically every western nation wasn't deeply complicit.

Is r/UkraineWarFootage clips of actual war? If so I can understand the need to "protect the children" from viewing stuff like that. If however it is just a source towards articles of what is going on then this level of censorship is ridiculous.