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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/55094518

“The UK government wants technology companies to block explicit images on phones and computers by default to protect children, with adults having to verify their age to create and access such content,” the FT report said. “Ministers want the likes of Apple and Google to incorporate nudity-detection algorithms into their device operating systems to prevent users taking photos or sharing images of genitalia unless they are verified as adults.”

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[–] SaraTonin@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They’re obviously going about it the wrong way, but this is inching towards the right way to go - keep age verification like biometric verification, encrypted and on-device. That’s a million times better than getting random pron sites to ask for your biometric data.

If they’d started with this thought and then kept thinking from there, they could have ended up with something decent and effective, rather than the current shitshow.

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[–] madjo@feddit.nl 7 points 2 months ago

I encourage UK's government to sit on it and rotate. And Keir Starmer can go do one with rusty barbed wire.

[–] jrs100000@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

My God. At least the US's fascism sort of makes sense from an internally consistent perspective. Make it make sense!

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[–] horn_e4_beaver@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I think it's time to throw my phone in the river.

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[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

How exactly would such a system work?

[–] WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

AI, of course. It’s 100% accurate.

/s just in case

[–] zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 2 months ago

And non invasive*

*We will use your data to push you more ads

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[–] Pacattack57@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

I will never buy a device that cockblocks me. I was talking shit about the nothing phone yesterday but I guess imma save up to buy it.

[–] uberdroog@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Block everything but calls and maps.

[–] nostrauxendar@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Can we have normal grocery prices first? Ban porn if you want, whatever, but please make our weekly shops affordable again. Any help on rent prices would be really nice, too.

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[–] pleaseletmein@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago

Remember when Tumblr banned porn, and implemented it so poorly that any photos with enough peach-ish or brown-ish colors got nuked for “displaying nudity”?

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