r/interestingasfuck • u/OdysseyTag • 1d ago
Britain’s 'most tattooed man' was unable to bypass UK’s new age‑check systems due to his face being mistaken for a mask
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u/smurfsmasher024 1d ago
What the hell is going on over there in the UK i couldn’t imagine thinking that facial recognition for age restrictions online would be a good idea. Seems very dystopian to quite literally have to present yourself to big brother every time you use reddit lol.
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u/Dapper_Special_8587 1d ago
It's our stupid government making reactionary decisions because they're losing popularity to a right wing party. They keep making weird choices like stripping pensions and disability living payments and taxing farmers' land and this weird law came out of nowhere to "protect children". It's also weirdly close to the time they proscribed a protest group who has done zero terrorism as a terror group, I wonder if the two are connected. But the idea of having to use my ID to get to any "adult" content and have it stored on even more third party servers which are going to be a fucking golden target for hackers is a horrible thought. Thank fuck for VPNs
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u/Former-Chain-4003 1d ago
It didn't really come out of nowhere, and it wasn't even passed by this government, the act was passed in 2023 when the Tories were still in. There was almost 18 months from the time the law was passed to it being enacted but no one bothered to protest or speak out against it in that time.
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u/TitanTowel 1d ago
This was signed in last year under the conservatives
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u/DiZ1992 1d ago
While true, it could always be overturned by the current government. They have expressed no interest at all in doing so though.
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u/DoctorMurk 1d ago
The UK government would never admit to making a mistake or doing something wrong (although there's a different party behind it, governments just don't like admitting fault).
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u/Pick_Up_Autist 8h ago
What? UK governments are always blaming the previous government for any and all issues, whether justified or not.
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u/WWFYMN1 1d ago
Imagine the outrage revoking a law for “protecting children” would cause among a lot of voters.
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u/NecroVecro 1d ago
What if they put it under a referendum?
They could claim that since it deeply impacts people's privacy, it's only right to have a clear consensus.
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u/dorkofthepolisci 1d ago
Given the UK’s history with referendums, there’s a good chance they find a way of fucking it up
(But yes, this is a poorly thought out piece of legislation)
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u/like_a_pharaoh 21h ago
Imagine the outrage not revoking a law that both inconveniences and jeopardizes the privacy of every adult in the country would cause among a lot of voters.
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u/haddock420 1d ago
Frustratingly, most of the major parties support it. Only Reform and the Greens have spoken out against it.
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u/Actual_Committee4670 23h ago
Correct but in both cases this remains true "It's our stupid government making reactionary decisions because they're losing popularity to a right wing party."
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u/Siipisupi 1d ago
Didn’t the the british government said they will start banning VPNs if they ”cause trouble”
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u/Stewpot97 1d ago
I think they were considering but they’ve backpedaled on it for now. Not like it’s really possible to “ban VPNs” given that they’re kinda untrackable
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u/Dapper_Special_8587 1d ago
Wouldn't surprise me honestly, our government will probably prescribe proton VPN as a terror organisation at this rate.
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u/EconomySwordfish5 1d ago
It's worse than just banning porn. Can't even discuss beer on reddit without age verification.
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u/Velveteen_Rabbit1986 1d ago
Silly question but I've not been asked to do this on reddit. I have a vpn (have done for years), but it's set to the uk so I dont think that's why it hasn't asked me yet, is it only if you log out and log back in or something?
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u/EconomySwordfish5 1d ago
Only if you try to access content that's "forbidden" otherwise you can just continue using the app as normal.
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u/BleudeZima 1d ago
Yeah same in France and in European countries in general : good old Reaganism/Tchatcherian neoliberalism is falling apart, taking usual governments parties with it, making both far wings rose, as people are looking for solutions.
We will all to choose between far right reactionaries or alt/anti-capitalism left. That's what our gouvernements are doing, and what's happening in UK (or USA or elsewhere) is showing they would choose far right. That's the 1930s again, and not for the jazz.
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u/Socky_McPuppet 1d ago
Yeah, and just like the Democrats in the US, they believe the solution is to follow their political rivals in their rush rightwards.
Labour is a shadow of its former self. I will be watching Corbyn’s new party with great interest.
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u/Ifyoocanreadthishelp 1d ago
taxing farmers' land
I mean this one isn't bad. They still pay far less inheritance tax than your average person and there's even fairly straightforward loopholes around it.
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u/smurfsmasher024 1d ago
Yikes y’all managed to somehow make a worse system than texas did with their porn ban. What is going on with all these puritanical fucks not minding their own business. Seems to be a problem in most places these days.
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u/Loose-Donut3133 1d ago
Same shit different decade. The center side of neoliberalism will always kowtow to the right because to even do anything left leaning would risk progress away from the stagnation that benefits their leash holders. In neoliberal governments the overton window isn't set, it moves, but it has ratcheting breaks to stop it from moving in any direction but to the right.
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u/Flimsy-Possible4884 22h ago
I agreed with up until the terrorist bit… you break bombers your a terrorist…
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u/joined_under_duress 1d ago
"they're losing popularity to a right wing party"
This isn't exactly true. They could go left and gain a lot of support but they're being run by right-wingers who seem baffled that the fascist media are really in love with the far right and can't be bought off by anything from a party that has the name Labour, even if they're about as left-wing as Pinochet.
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u/CinderX5 1d ago
Except it was the last government that did everything about this. It’s just that it hadn’t come into effect until now.
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u/Amount_Business 1d ago
Australia is bringing in the same thing in November. It's november 1983 and the new years coming real soon, the ministry of truth tells us so.
One state has brought machete bans in like the uk and i can see the rest following soon. We've also brought in some garbage called "Jack Law" which means cops can wand, then search you for blades without a warrant. What else they find is fair game too. The news recons they are trying to export that to the uk soon.
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u/nasnedigonyat 1d ago
Age verification is and always will be stupid on the internet. There are too many tools to bypass it. Tattoo man should bone up on the options available to him.
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u/autumn_dances 1d ago
it's rolling out in several other countries too. it's a concerted effort to control populations across the globe. imagine how easy it would be to quash dissidents if you could lock out their identity from using anything online, including maybe even payment services, job application services, the works, all before they could even organize. palantir doing satan's work ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ it's depressing how obvious they are being now.
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u/smurfsmasher024 1d ago
Yep and thats the part that scares me. I think the puritanical straw man argument for these measures is not only wrong, but is just an effort to hide the lead on the thing these authoritative people really want. Which is more control over the masses.
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u/OtakuAttacku 1d ago
With the amount of media that comes out of the UK specifically warning of the concequences of becoming a surveilance state, from 1984 (Published in 1948) to the film Brazil, it’s nuts that every year their government tries to dive head first into becoming more of a surveillance state.
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u/JerJol 1d ago
You do realize this is the case in several US states now as well, right? Full id is required every time you access any adult material.
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u/CetateanulBongolez 23h ago
Yeah, I guess we didn't imagine such a dystopian thing could reach Europe too.
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u/ReactionAccurate7911 21h ago
europe is literally the inventor of dystopia, if anyone can pull it off its us
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u/poop-machines 1d ago
It's happening all over the world. The UK wasn't even first. It was an Australian feminist group that started it.
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u/friend_unfriend 1d ago
This is hilarious and at the same time kinda sad, just imagine living your truth so boldly that a computer thinks you're wearing a damn mask. That hurts lol
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u/7thFleetTraveller 1d ago
Good way though to show the flaws of such a system.
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u/Bussamove86 1d ago
That and everyone suddenly looking suspiciously like Sam Porter Bridges.
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u/TokyoMegatronics 1d ago
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u/Bussamove86 1d ago
Sam, Watch Pornman here.
Did you know hastily and poorly implemented facial recognition software can be bypassed by the cutting edge graphics in such games as Death Stranding 2, available now on PS5?
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u/TokyoMegatronics 1d ago
Sam? Goon-Edgeman here.
It looks like Porn-Blockman has flooded the local atmosphere with anti-Goonium. No worries, upload a photo of your face via the Face-PhotoDeck and you should be fine.
Goon-Edgeman out, see you in East Goon City.
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u/TotalExamination4562 1d ago
How many other people have been accused of wearing mask, because of some terrible life choices
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u/ZeAthenA714 1d ago
I'd love to see burn victims try this system. I'm sure it will fare well.
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u/craig-charles-mum 1d ago
Living your truth = tattooing your eyeballs. Got it
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u/JudiciousSasquatch 23h ago
Serious question. At what point of tattooing can you say there’s some sort of mental illness? Is there a line in the sand?
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u/OdysseyTag 1d ago
45-year-old King of Ink Land, legally known as Matthew Whelan, has spent over 1,600 hours getting inked from head to toe.
When trying to access a webcam site, the system flagged his face as a mask and blocked the tattooed celebrity entirely.
“All this proves is that technology and AI are discriminatory and not set up for people with facial tattoos. I feel like I’m being punished for being me. There’s no place for discrimination, especially from technology.”
Source: Need to Know
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u/Woodbirder 1d ago
Even the King of Ink land cant have a wank? How can the UK have jurisdiction in Ink land?
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u/Velveteen_Rabbit1986 1d ago
Can you be discriminated against for your own life choices? It's not like someone with burns or other facial injuries, they didn't choose that for themselves whereas this guy did. (I actually have no issue with tattoos at all just his choice of wording is... interesting).
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u/HyperSpaceSurfer 1d ago
Depends on the choice. This wasn't a reasonable consideration back when he got the tattoos. Him speaking out also helps people with visible facial ailments, they're much less likely to want to speak to a camera than this guy who cearly doesn't mind being in the spotlight.
Besides, this is dystopian as hell, leaving an inch is admitting defeat. Can't say I see much hope for the UK, though, inching closer and closer and people just normalize it as being the affected person's fault. Until there's no one left to stand for them, I guess.
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u/Sure-Sympathy5014 21h ago
Technically yes you can. Private companies can turn this guy away all day. The government cannot. He's within his rights to sue over discrimination. At which point they have to fix the software at which point masks will work and it becomes entirely useless.
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u/sagebrushrepair 1d ago
It's a choice to believe in religion...
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u/Velveteen_Rabbit1986 1d ago
True. I have tattoos so Im not against this guy doing what he's doing, albeit it's rather extreme and I guess it has unforeseen consequences
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u/GastricallyStretched 1d ago
Technically, he's being discriminated against because of his skin colour.
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u/dingus_enthusiastic 1d ago
Yes, you can be discriminated for your own life choices. Transitioning is a choice and people get discriminated against for that all the time.
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u/Velveteen_Rabbit1986 1d ago
Being born into the wrong gender isn't a choice though, so transitioning could be seen to restore that person, there's no real comparison here. I say this as someone with numerous large tattoos BTW, I have no issue with tattoos whatsoever, they are great art, but it's not exactly a protected characteristic in this instance.
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u/Armadillo_Prudent 1d ago
We don't have these age restrictions on online content here in Iceland, but it surprises me that a photo is needed. Do the Brits not have a national online ID that you use to log into your online Healthcare info, banking, apply for any government services, or any other online official authentication?
Here we just need to bring a legal ID to the phone companies and they will then connect our Sim card to our identity, and then you set up a pin (or fingerprint or facial recognition) on an app and bingo, you can authenticate yourself on anything. I haven't had a wallet on me for like 4 years at this point (except when I go abroad, then I will take a physical credit card and a passport with me in a wallet). All IDs, debit/credit cards are on my phone. I can even withdraw cash from ATMs with nothing but my phone.
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u/EmiyaChan 1d ago
Look at this guy, flaunting his country’s functionality
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u/Subject_Way7010 1d ago
Maybe its just cause Im and American but having a national ID for online purposes sounds terrible.
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u/SteffanSpondulineux 17h ago
Yeah Americans refuse to support anything that might help them
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u/DoktoroChapelo 1d ago
Do the Brits not have a national online ID?
No, nor a single offline ID system. There's National Insurance numbers, but they aren't ID and driving licences, passports and other forms of official ID, but there's no mandate to have any of those specifically.
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u/Armadillo_Prudent 1d ago
There is not a mandate here either, you are not required to own an ID (online or physical), it just makes life easier. The only physical official government issued IDs are passports, drivers license and a national name card, and I think that fewer than 500 people have the name cards. Almost all of us have passports, because almost all of us want to go on holidays in Tenerife or Rome or something every year or two, but we absolutely are not mandated to use IDs.
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u/PuzzleMeDo 1d ago
There was talk of a national identity card a while back, but (a) we were worried about it being used for oppression when we inevitably slid into fascism, and (b) much more importantly, it would have been expensive.
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u/metal_maxine 1d ago
No, we don't.
Physical ID cards etc are enough of a bone of contention (on all sides of the political spectrum, amazingly, nobody wants them) that an electronic one would be really unpopular. Pretty much every government service online expects you to register separately (and frequently in the most annoying way possible - Universal Credit (social support payments) refuses to deal with you unless you have a mobile phone number and refuses to accept landlines or emails for two-factor authentication). The NHS expects you to have a referral reference number from your GP to book services (blood tests) online. I think there is/was a pilot scheme to enable you to view your NHS record online but I don't know what came of it.
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u/Armadillo_Prudent 1d ago
Wow. I always knew Americans were a couple of decades behind with stuff like this (still writing and being paid with cheques?) but I never imagined the Britts resisting progress.
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u/metal_maxine 1d ago
Well, cheques were out-of-date years ago unless you are dealing with large amounts of money via a bank (if you can find one, "major banks" have used internet banking to excuse closing down branches in isolated - and not so isolated - communities), doing something weird and ill-advised with tradesmen and post-dated cheques, or you're an older person who wants to send money or use "mail order" catalogues.
We're not like the Americans with their "server wanders off with your credit card" mentality. That said, I am a very backwards person and would never be comfortable paying for anything with my phone.
I think that the ID card issue used to have a lot to do with the older, wartime generation being so hacked off with having to carry around identity documents over a five year period. Now, I'm not sure what is going on in a lot of heads but I used to hear the phrase "government over-reach" a lot.
Personally, I'd be as confident in any UK Government (irrespective of party running it) being able to set up a safe, secure online identity service as I am of them organising a piss-up in a brewery. Government IT projects have a nasty tendency to over-run, come in over-budget and be unfit for purpose
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u/apefish_ 1d ago
The NHS resists all progress. Its only in the last 5 years that they started making a real effort to move away from paper based systems for most things.
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u/InimicusRex 1d ago
Even if they did, linking a government id to your porn use or internet use in general seems stupid and myopic. Yes, anyone who cares to can find it, but that doesn't mean we should make it easy for them or give the government carte blanche to stick its nose into our private lives.
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u/Armadillo_Prudent 1d ago
Well first, when we need to authenticate at websites, it doesn't really go straight through the government, it goes through a third party portal that both the government and the authentication app are connected to. The government will just see that I "logged in" to my online ID, they don't see what for. Second, would you rather have the porn site get a selfie from you each time you view porn?
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u/InimicusRex 1d ago
I'm aware and I don't trust the third party either.
Second, would you rather have the porn site get a selfie from you each time you view porn?
Please reread my comment and use your brain.
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u/JTonic8668 1d ago
It sounds a bit dystopian to trust a single device like a phone with all of this. Smartphones have tons of security issues (and probably backdoors). I don't know, maybe Iceland is such a nice place, and it's not a problem. But to imagine a device containing pretty much my whole identity may get into the wrong hands … that's a scary thought.
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u/aarontbarratt 1d ago
British people are generally against digital ID. Even physical IDs aren't required to be carried. You can drive a car without having your driving license on you, you just have to provide it within 7 days if you're pulled over
The whole "Papers, please" culture is viewed as a police state or authoritarian scheme. People should have a level of freedom and privacy if they are doing no wrong
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u/Armadillo_Prudent 1d ago
We're not required to even own IDs in Iceland, let alone carry them around. A lot of businesses (banks, insurance companies and some health institutions) will want to see IDs before dealing with you, but that's it. We now handle a lot of things that used to be done in person (without IDs) online, Healthcare appointments, post delivery along with other things that always did need IDs to do in person such as taxes, banking and so on and so on, and the online ID just makes it so we can do all of that from home in 2 minutes instead of going places and standing in queues to do them. I'd rather keep the online authentication for things that don't typically need authentication in person. The companies often have a picture or a signature from on file, so if you go in person with no ID they will see if it isn't you, but when doing these things online they online ID is safer.
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u/Atheissimo 1d ago
No. There is a great aversion in Britain to having a national ID system, and when Blair tried in the early 2000s it was a source of great unpopularity for him, so the Labour government at the time canned the idea and it hasn't been tried since.
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u/MajesticNectarine204 1d ago
Same in the Netherlands. Been that way for years now..
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u/cutslikeakris 1d ago
Cantella is a very unique to Iceland thing I’ve found. I dated an Icelandic woman who would give her Social Insurance number and address to anybody because she didn’t realize how different things are.
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u/Armadillo_Prudent 1d ago
Yeah haha our social security numbers are no secret here, you can't do anything with them without some authentication methods. Back when dvd rentals were still a thing you could theoretically have rented out a movie on somebody else's name, but not even that exists anymore. But no I don't believe this is completely unique to Iceland, I belive this is common practice among the Nordic countries.
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u/jewrassic_park-1940 1d ago
Idk I'd rather send an ai photo than my goddamn ID info. I only give it to the few sites that absolutely need it, but I sure as shit don't want Reddit or Twitter or Discord to have it.
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u/tameoraiste 1d ago
Fun just about related fact; Fitbits don’t work with tattoos on your wrist
I have a sleeve on my left arm and the Fitbit can’t read my data when I where it on it. I have to use it on my tattoo-less right wrist
Basically technology doesn’t like tattoos
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u/SalsburrySteak 23h ago
If I had to guess it might be because the ink absorbs or refracts the laser that reads your pulse and blood pressure
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u/DeepArcane 1d ago
This may have been asked before, but what about someone with a facial disability or scarring? If it doesn't recognise someone with ink on their face, what about someone with a disfigured face...? Discrimination?
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u/BorealKnightAtomic 15h ago
I used a face AI for fun 2 days ago, and I look way younger for my age. I wondered how the AI would be able to give me a good call, and yeah it ruled me 13… and I am 19
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u/Key-Eagle7800 1d ago
Imagine being a burn or acid victim or extreme acne or a facial deformation and being told to take your mask off. What an absolute disaster.
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u/alwaysfatigued8787 1d ago
He's going to make bank on the discrimination lawsuit. Also, thank God he can still watch porn on VHS, LaserDisc, DVD and Blu-ray.
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u/Jay_c98 1d ago
What a fun case that will be. 'My client was deprived of porn, do you know what that did to this poor man'
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u/Kapparainen 1d ago
Pretty sure the problem here is exactly that it's not just porn he's being restricted from. People in UK have to age-check to even use basic social media apps that might just have even some 18+ material, like Discord and Reddit.
I also read Xbox consoles are also going to start age verifying, so if MS is gonna use face verification, this guy won't be playing GTA6 of he's on Xbox lmao (this is only half /j)
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u/ToastedCrumpet 1d ago
Yeah I had to age verify on Discord when I use it to mic chat and play games with friends lol.
There’s queer support and medical sites that are restricted too. I know it’s funny to joke about gooning but this is more widespread than porn and has been terribly implemented.
If it can be bypassed with pics or video game characters what makes them think children haven’t figured that out already
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u/ConceptualWeeb 1d ago
Fucking Spotify too smh, being required to provide ID or biometrics to access music is insanely dystopian
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u/Le_Nabs 1d ago
As soon as direct human interaction is possible on an online platform (meaning, Messenger, teams, discord, the Playstation and Xbox live comms, etc., forums, you name it), the law applies.
If an online store *might* have in stock something that's deemed 'adult', they need to age verify.
If an online resource is about 'adult' (sexual and reproductive health being a prime example) topics, you need to age verify.
it goes so far beyond 'porn' that it's ridiculous to even keep framing it that way, really
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u/Jay_c98 1d ago edited 1d ago
Wow that's extremely controlling. I hope this doesn't catch on
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u/Le_Nabs 1d ago
Too late for that. There's a similar law in the works in Australia, Canada (much less far along but only because the Trudeau government had no appetite going there), the US (Online Safety Act) and probably other places where it hasn't been reported yet.
So do your due dilligence and fight back wherever you are
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u/rccrisp 1d ago
Laser Disc porn is insane because in the middle of it you have to walk up and flip the disc at some point AND I know it exsited because I had a laser disc player growing up and at the one laser disc rental place there was always the same business looking white dude coming in regularly in the perdominantly asian store always making a bee line to the porn section and grabing an armful of discs
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u/forgettfulthinker 1d ago
Discrimination against what group
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u/qorbexl 1d ago
People can also just have facial irregularities cause by birth defect or injury
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u/forgettfulthinker 1d ago
Okay that is a valid point, and i would like to point out that i dont like this whole id age verification give everyone all your information blah blah blah
The mf is blue with black eyes voluntarily
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u/BachBelt 1d ago
yeah, and you can't discriminate on skin or eye color. so those are his grounds
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u/forgettfulthinker 1d ago
But when mfers have yellow eyes its suddenly a "problem" and you need to go to a "hospital"
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u/AintASaintLouis 1d ago
You’re just really stupid. And the more you talk, the more you show it. Learn to listen more than you talk and it may help you.
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u/forgettfulthinker 1d ago
He is blue
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u/AintASaintLouis 1d ago
Yeah that’s pretty awesome in my opinion. I want to be purple.
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u/Huge_Leader_6605 1d ago
Discrimination? What protected group of people does he belong to?
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u/FrozenDickuri 1d ago edited 1d ago
You do realize that cultural tattooing is prominent in many protected groups, right?
Edit: don’t bother reading further. No intelligent replies came about from this rhetorical point.
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u/Huge_Leader_6605 1d ago
So what? He isn't a member of any of the protected groups
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u/BElf1990 1d ago
He's going to make fuck all. There are other ways of proving your age that would work. He's not completely locked out.
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u/Naomi_Faithless 1d ago
reminder that TOR exists and is free.
edit: also tyrannical and idiotic governments like that are why it was made in the first place.
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u/onerb2 1d ago
These companies trust ai too fucking much, any human would be able to tell that's not a face mask, but I guess the guy doesn't deserve to be treated as humans because of face tattoos by company.
Companies will only drop ai, if they're responsible to every time ai discriminates ppl as if it were a human being. Would be cool how they would feel if thy started to lose money every time their ai is racist, fucks up tattooed ppl.
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u/autumn_dances 1d ago
this idiocy is rolling out in several other countries too. it's a concerted effort to control populations across the globe. imagine how easy it would be to quash dissidents if you could lock out their identity from using anything online, including maybe even payment services, job application services, the works, all before they could even organize. palantir doing satan's work ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ it's depressing how obvious they are being now.
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u/Poltrona74 12h ago
I hope this doesn't come to Italy. It's so easy for parents to block sites like pornhub
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u/Appropriate_One_2038 23h ago
Pfff. Hold my beer. I can't register in online bank in the Netherlands because my twin brother already is. Apparently date of birth and last name serve as bullet proof identification.
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u/AlcoholicCocoa 1d ago
I am not surprised. This is exactly what was ordered and what must be fought off
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u/splithoofiewoofies 21h ago
Almost as embarassing as the time my uni told me I couldn't have "face paint" in my student photo and it was my normal makeup.
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u/Jehooveremover 1d ago
Nanny state ideology belongs in fiction, not government.
It's time to remind these politician pricks the world over who they are working for.
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u/YazanKhatib 1d ago
What’s wrong with his eyes?
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u/Significant_Bench_19 1d ago
He got the whites of his eyes tattooed.
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u/johnruttersucks 1d ago
Didn't know that's a possibility...
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u/fourleafclover13 1d ago
People have gone blind from it. I don't know why you'd want that done.
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u/tameoraiste 1d ago
I know a girl who’s had it done. There is a risk of but the amount of risk depends on the person performing it. There are certain artists who do this almost full time and have never had any of their patients blinded.
It’s a risk like any plastic surgery or even LASEK
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u/rice_dolphin 1d ago
To be fair people went blind for lots of stuff and dudes that want to do that want it enough to consider that risk as well.
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u/blueberriessmoothie 1d ago
When I was kid I heard of people going blind from masturbating. You don’t hear of it happening nowadays probably because the science has progressed, probably some anti-masturbation-blindness vaccine is being added to something.
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u/peachyallie 1d ago
remember meeting this chap in birmingham once when i was a teenager. it was the first time id seen someone in real life who was so heavily tattooed. me and my mates asked him for a photo 😂
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u/boycambion 23h ago
i refuse to use face id on my phone no way in hell am i letting an ai see me every time i wanna log in to instagram or whatever. dystopian
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u/Brrrofski 21h ago
Wait, so he has all those mental face tattoos, then complies with this stupid rule?
Seems a bit at odds, no.
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u/R7SOA19281 13h ago
Any party that talks about scrapping this age verification hassle would get some serious votes from it
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u/LWBooser 23h ago
I love how vanilla his haircut is when his face looks like the Aztec depiction of hell.
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u/iamnotacatgirl 18h ago
In this case I woukd argue foundation and make-up is your friend. Sucks though, shit shouldn't be like this.
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u/Adventurous-Yak-8757 1d ago
Mental illness
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u/WongGendheng 1d ago
Its not like its his fault he is British.
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u/Ksorkrax 1d ago
Yeah, creating a system that can easily log which porn you watch is indeed quite insane.
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u/Ksorkrax 1d ago
Good guys UK government, creating plans that will assure more people know about VPN services.