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[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

On one hand this guy has a hell of a hobby that seems like it steps on everything else in his life. On the other its amazing dude exists to fuck with normative behavior and policies that exist to keep people down.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Not saying that he should have to do this -- but I bet he could apply foundation+concealer to cover them up.

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“Ah good, finally have some alone time. Just gotta go put on a full face of caked-on concealer before I can jork it.”

[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Thankful for them trying to protect our virgin eyes from the ravages of a dirty word, but the extra letters r n are too triggering, and they've scarred our delicate, snowflake lives. Is there some remedy they can offer to atone for inflicting this trauma on us?

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Sail the high seas, friends.

[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago

OI YOO GOH A LOISESNCE FORE THAHT PHORN?

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Out of curiosity, what does the law say exactly? Is distributing porn without age verification illegal? Like, if I set up a a 'take one, leave one' free porn box, would using it be illegal?

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[–] peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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Note to self: Sell realistic masks so adult Brits can watch llama Pr0n.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It's not a discrimination thing, I'm sure this is just facial recognition failing over his extensive facial tattoos, same as it can fail on people with very dark skin. No racism or discrimination needed to explain it, it's just the software or sometimes even physics that causes it.

Having said that, fuck the UK government for implementing this shit.

Get your porn whilst you can because other countries will follow suit and soon even a VPN won't save you anymore

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The system is still discriminating against this guy's face tattoos even if it's unintentional. Hopefully they will fix the issue.

This is one of the many ethical issues that can come up when you build software. It might be just a bug for the engineers who built it but this probably ruined this guy's whole life. I hope he can move on from this hahaha.

Agreed with all your points though. What a stupid law. It's crazy they are popping up all over now. We are losing anonymity online. What little we had left.

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[–] Wazowski@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I'd be devastated if I couldn't watch pyrn.

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