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- Comment on He really said this, look it up! 1 day ago:
I haven’t actually played it, it’s on my wishlist.
- Comment on He really said this, look it up! 2 days ago:
Glad to know that playing Super Lesbian Animal RPG is praxis.
- Comment on Tourists dismantle cross and use stones to create Star of David 1 week ago:
Please make the primary link an archive link so we’re not driving traffic to the Daily Heil. I’m honestly not sure we should allowing stories from there at all.
- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 1 week ago:
Dame Rachel told BBC Newsnight: “Of course, we need age verification on VPNs - it’s absolutely a loophole that needs closing and that’s one of my major recommendations.”
She wants ministers to explore requiring VPNs “to implement highly effective age assurances to stop underage users from accessing pornography.”
Stop trying to enforce this at the service level, for God’s sake. What are you going to do when people switch to stuff like Tor?* ‘Online safety regulation pushes kids to that dark web’ will be a fire headline in a couple of months/years.
* I remember seeing someone link to something here they described as ‘Tor for apps’ that I can’t find, does anyone have that at hand?
The report also found more children are stumbling across pornography accidentally, with some of the 16 to 21-year-olds surveyed saying they had viewed it “aged six or younger”.
I’m sorry, but this is genuinely a failure of parents. Like, I’m not normally one to trot out the ‘parents should helicopter their children’ defence against regulation of social media, but giving a bloody six year old not-monitored-enough access to the internet is on the parent.
Also, I’d take this all a lot more seriously if parent actually used the tools already available to them:
We actually already have measures to deal with this: back in 2011 the government worked with ISPs (internet service providers) to come up with a Code of Practice on implementing ‘parental controls’ for all new customers. In 2013 this was adopted by all the major players. So when you (an adult – because you have to be over 18 to do this) register for an internet connection, you are offered adult content filtering by default. You can tweak this, if you like, for example you can decide you’re happy for your family to access social media sites but not pornography. Or if you don’t anticipate any children using your connection, you can opt out of adult filters altogether. Research conducted in 2022, however, found that although 61% of parents were aware of these filters, only 27% actually used them. Again, sing it with me: lol.
Back to the BBC article.
More than half of respondents to the survey had viewed strangulation as children, prompting Dame Rachel to also ask the government to ban depictions of it.
This is an implicit admission that age verification is ineffective. If it was, then children wouldn’t see it and then we wouldn’t need to ban it.
- Comment on Prince Harry denies giving Prince Andrew bloody nose at family gathering 3 weeks ago:
What a shame, would’ve made me like him more if he did.
- Comment on UK pornography taskforce to propose banning ‘barely legal’ content after Channel 4 documentary airs 3 weeks ago:
- Good luck enforcing that;
- No, let’s not just ban everything that some people find objectionable.
- Comment on ‘Britain’s most tattooed man’ claims he is unable to watch p*rn as 'new age check system mistakes his ink for a mask' | Need To Know 4 weeks ago:
He just needs to install GMod.
- Comment on UK Users Need to Post Selfie or Photo ID to View Reddit's r/IsraelCrimes, r/UkraineWarFootage 4 weeks ago:
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.
- Comment on Government response to the Repeal the Online Safety Act petition 4 weeks ago:
God, it’s so stupid that the govt thinks making every website either do its own age verification or pay out of pocket to some we’re-totally-not-going-to-sell-your-data firm really goes to show how out of touch they are. Why not require OS-level parental controls to be exposed through some API (that browsers would wrap around) and require service providers to gatekeep content based on that, that would at least be more robust than this, something a simple VPN can get around.
Right, right, this is Tory legislation banking on the fear of having your porn habits linked to your ID deterring you from accessing it.
- Comment on Bluesky age verification uk 5 weeks ago:
Client side moderation is a Bluesky thing, I imagine this wouldn’t work on Reddit et al. but that depends on how it’s implemented and is going to be specific to whatever website your accessing. Or you can just use a VPN, like the BBC put it:
When BBC News wrote about the seven methods of age verification adult websites may use in the UK and the companies who may be employed to do it, one reader comment resonated with many others.
“Sure, I will give out my sensitive information to some random, unproven company or… I will use a VPN,” they said. “Difficult choice.”
- Comment on Bluesky age verification uk 5 weeks ago:
This is really trivial to get around: gist.github.com/…/6e27b24a83838202908808ad528b331…
- Comment on Thread concept: List of sites about to block the UK over the Online Safety Act 5 weeks ago:
Do we have site of any Lemmy instances that defederate from us? It’ll be interesting to see if many do.
Why would they? They’re only legally liable for their own users, not ours.
- Comment on Thread concept: List of sites about to block the UK over the Online Safety Act 5 weeks ago:
This already exist: onlinesafetyact.co.uk/in_memoriam/
- Comment on First they came for steam, then they came for itch.io . 5 weeks ago:
Too bad cryptobros are more interested in using it as a speculative investment/scam machine than an actual currency.
- Comment on Does anyone struggle with spending money foolishly on prostitutes? 5 weeks ago:
I didn’t say if God changed though, I said if God changed what they willed. From some quick Googling (I haven’t actually read the bible), this seems to happen in the bible (Jeremiah 26:13). God can change their actions without changing themself.
The Euthyphro dilemma is moreso about polytheistic religions. It doesn’t work with nor was it written about Monotheism.
2 millennia of Christian philosophy would disagree with you there.
- Comment on Does anyone struggle with spending money foolishly on prostitutes? 5 weeks ago:
No it’s not? I’m arguing that morality must be something separate from God. If the only thing that makes something morally right is that God wills it, then if God ever changes what they will, what is morally right will change.
- Comment on Does anyone struggle with spending money foolishly on prostitutes? 5 weeks ago:
You’ve just moved some words around. God must have reasons for thinking something is good, otherwise goodness would be arbitrary. You can argue that god is only one who can know those reasons/criteria, but I don’t think there’s a good argument that these reasons/criteria can’t exist without them.
- Comment on Does anyone struggle with spending money foolishly on prostitutes? 5 weeks ago:
Because God must use some criteria to assess if something is morally right or not, otherwise morality would be arbitrary (see the Euthyphro dilemma). These criteria can exist without God, therefore morality can exist without God.
- Comment on Woman, 74, tells of pain and fear after arrest at Liverpool pro-Palestine rally 5 weeks ago:
Did you mean to link this theguardian.com/…/audrey-white-74-tells-of-pain-a… ?
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- Comment on Pride rainbows taken off police cars after court ruling 1 month ago:
This is the Torygraph, don’t read the comments unless you want to do psyc damage to yourself.
- Comment on UK to lower voting age to 16 1 month ago:
He’s actually already the most popular politician on TikTok.
- Comment on moderation 1 month ago:
Perfect moderation doesn’t exi-
- Comment on We face nationalisation if we’re not let off fines, Thames Water warns 1 month ago:
However, Chris Weston, its chief executive, told MPs that the company needed an exemption from the £1.4 billion in fines he expects the regulators, Ofwat and the Environment Agency, to impose for future breaches of environmental and performance rules.
Won’t somebody think of the poor company facing the consequences of its own actions.
- Comment on Child rapist visits Prince Andrews brother. 1 month ago:
Could you change the title to match the actual article title, not all clients show the original and editorialised titles are against the rules.
- Comment on Kent council bans transgender books in children’s library section 1 month ago:
Turns out they lied, one book targeted at adults got moved from the welcome area to further back in the library. Truly an impressively incompetent bunch these Reform councilors.
- Comment on A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"? 2 months ago:
Oh for sure, Fallout 3 Geoguesser would be hard. Idk, I just never had a problem navigating them, even if they were a bit samey.
- Comment on A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"? 2 months ago:
Fallout 3. The criticism is absolutely fair*, but it was the first RPG I ever played and I’m still very fond of it.
* I never got the ‘metros are hard to navigate’ criticism, I never had that issues. Most of them are pretty linear.
- Comment on EHRC commissioner calls for trans people to accept reduced rights 2 months ago:
I was speaking rhetorically about people like Reindorf, I didn’t mean to imply you thought trans people were undesirables.
- Comment on EHRC commissioner calls for trans people to accept reduced rights 2 months ago:
True, but I do still think the unfairness to disabled people is important to highlight, even if it’s just the principle of it as opposed to real world impacts. It’s important we don’t let them push ‘undesirables’ into disabled people’s facilities as that carries negative implications for both groups.
