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?
I wouldn’t call it outlets for war gore. It is also about providing information that mainstream media refuses to give or intentionally distort to fit its narrative.
Fascists governments that want a list of who oppose something probably
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.
Oh, so this is what VPNs are used for?
Reddit blocks you plain and simple if you use a vpn, and has done so for a while. Also I don’t see how VPN relates to them gatekeeping 2 subs behind a mandatory doxxing of yourself.
Reddit blocks you plain and simple if you use a vpn
Not really true. Some VPN IPs are blocked, so you’d have to select a new VPN endpoint and try again.
Source: have done this multiple times when switching VPN endpoints.
Huh, just went and managed to get the frontpage after 5 tries with mullvad. To be fair haven’t really tried too hard to go back on Reddit the last two years, and just assumed the blocking of IPs was stricker. Still, thanks for correcting me
Just visited with my personal VPN, which I’d advocate anyone with technical chops to spin up. Digital Ocean droplet, been in use for years with zero maintenance, $6/mo., and no one gets my logs.
Wouldn’t traffic analysis be easier without having a crowd to blend into?
If you use a vpn you appear as a non-uk user, you don’t have to show the ID. If you don’t have an existing account, the only reliable source of geolocation for websites is your ip address, so a vpn can effectively circumvent that.
Oh, right. I didn’t thought of that at all, I never went beyond "well, they don’t let you use VPNs anyway. Man I need to sleep. And thanks for explaining.
I wonder if this will affect RSS feeds
We’re gonna be sending AI generated photos to AI powered age verifiers to read AI generated articles about the latest developments in AI.
Yeah, that’s not making lists of dissenters… /s
Nah no problems here. Move along but before you do please leave a copy of your government id.
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/
because citizens ringing their digits to express concerns means so much more to them than their donors ringing them
Cool, are you doing anything in the real world to try to make a positive change or just shitting on people who are?
They only ever shit on anyone trying to do anything.
Oh and lots of “bOtH sIdEs!!”
If the kids can’t see the horrors of war [crimes], they’re more likely to be convinced of being participants.
I feel like this belongs here…
Infuriating and horrifying in a way that triggers my claustrophobia. Even more infuriating are the people in America who are begging for censorship. You point out what a trash heap Europe’s censorship is and they shrug, as long as the censorship is by them against the “other side” whichever side that is they have no concept of what happens when that “other side” gets a hold of the reins. I would rather have to sift through 10 feet of nazi posts than have the government have a way to legitimately hold a verified list of everything everybody does.
casually slides IP address across English Channel to France
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.
The joke of the China comparison was that we had a bunch of libertarians screaming “We can’t have social services! The government will weaponize them against us and track everything we say and do!!! Public healthcare, public transit, public education, public utilities - they’re all a slippery slope to the Police State, just like in China!”
And now we get all the same mass surveillance via privatized channels, while libertarians seem to have fully clammed up (when they aren’t quietly cheering on psychopaths like RFK Jr). But we get none of the public amenities. Yay… love my Freedom™
Anyone who frequents reddit every day is a fucking coward.
How do they verify the selfie is actually the user?
You send another selfie of what you actually look like, so they can compare.
It’s selfies all the way down.
They don’t, people have been using death stranding 2 photo mode to get around it
Some people, certainly. Others aren’t so tech savvy, so they’re stuck making due.
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.
Yes, politicians are way out of touch. On every level.
For Zionists… well, that just sounds like genocide with extra steps… You’d think the Jewish diaspora would be against genocide, but here we are.
Sounds like they should use this
I heard that some of the checks require video of the person performing particular movements. So a little harder to fake with AI.
There are video deepfake systems that can animate these fictional faces. We need a catalogue of the kinds of facial positions these systems ask for
One of them that is hard is waving your hand in front of your face. It trips up almost every deepfake system I’ve seen. That’s a common test we’ve had to start using with interviewees because they’d try to game the system.
interviewees? what? where are you using this?
I guess in that case you could do the following, though it is a bit of work:
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Learn what actions are supposed to be taken in the demand for selfie identification
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Record a video of yourself performing the actions, but not with your hand moving in front of your face for that section
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Record a different video of just your hand moving past the camera
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Deepfake the face video
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Composite the video of the hand over top of the deep fake video with chroma/luma keying
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Use virtual webcam software to play back the video into the actual demand for selfie identification
Wouldn’t work if a real human being is there asking, but should work for a known set of instructions ahead of time that is being audited by software.
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A little, but it will only get easier.
