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Spotify Is Forcing Users to Undergo Face Scanning to Access Explicit Content (www.404media.co)
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[–] 68 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No, governments like the UK are forcing this.

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    • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    A strange choice given that you don't even need to have a face to enjoy music.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    The headline is misleading. It only applies if you want to watch videos tagged 18+.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    You say that as if it makes the idea somehow less insane. I hope the billionaire clique pushing this shit has miscalculated and there are still enough people not so far gone that they're ever going to let the technofascists scan their faces in exchange for the privilege of spending money and being advertised at.

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    • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    How long now until I'm going to have to have back-alley surgery to replace my eyes as the only means of blocking ads and remaining anonymous, ala Minority Report? 🤔

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    • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I'm sure that will just push more people to get their music from soulseek and torrents.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    Governments will never understand that piracy is a service problem.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    Governments will never understand that resorting to extralegal measures in order to obtain what it is you want and need is due to difficulty in being able to procure it through legal channels, very broadly applicable

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Capitalism will never accept that piracy is the free market voting with it's wallet, because capitalism is actually not pro-free market

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago*

    Capitalism accepts it, thats why corporations lobby for governments to be more aggressive on piracy, while they keep squeezing profits. When governments should just give the corporations the middle finger.

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    • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The second i get this im deleting my account

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    • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    How long until my grandparents send their ID and personal info to some scammer because they think they have to?

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    • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Why are we all playing this game? Why not just say screw the UK? Isn't that easier?

    Or is this just an excuse to up the surveillance and potential ad revanue?

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    • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    My family canceled our plan when they announced their investment in Helsing which makes AI weapons.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    High-tech western military investments in an age of Russian aggression is actually a good thing to do. And it's even European instead of US or Israel.

    I see no reason not to fully support this. Sure, a pacifist world would be awesome, but that would require a lot of things to happen that are not realistic at all. The alternative to european defense investments is not peace, it's death and oppression.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Weapons, but especially digital weapons, will always be turned upon their subordinate populace if it suits the oligarchy

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Perhaps, although when was the last time that happened in the west?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    Literally all the time.

    Every major piece of tech in use by police domestically was built originally for military use. Every large police department in the US operates fixed-wing surveillance drones, stingrays/imsi-catchers, camera-based tracking systems, etc. All but the smallest departments receive tons of milsurp vehicles, weapons, and gear. Night vision and thermal imaging systems were military tech, and now they're standard for police. CS gas was military gear (until it was banned under the Geneva Convention), and now it's used exclusively by police.

    And that's just use of military tech against us by police. Get into domestic surveillance by 3-letter agencies, and it's even worse.

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    • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Oh no! Anyway...

    Honestly Spotify is a terrible company and service, like all streaming. You own nothing. They pay artists peanuts.

    Hope this leads to people buying music and/or supporting artists directly.

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    [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I'm glad I got all my shit off of there already.

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