BrikoX4Chan responds to £520,000 Ofcom fine with AI picture of hamster
Heinous
Omgboomchecks to prevent children from seeing pornography
Give me like 15 seconds and I could find cartel execution via pitbull on that ratfuck of a website. Being exposed to porn is just not on the list of things that matter
I noticed 4chan is not doing age verification checks, even though they host pornographic content.
Kids always learn how to get around those checks. Even back in my day when there were very few sites that had checks, I quickly found my way around them, and for a millennial I’m considered barely computer litterate. I’m certainly no hacker by any means. I won’t even pirate shit, cause I don’t trust myself not to fuck something up. Like the whole ID thing? Id just grab dads ID if it doesn’t require a credit card.
…insert a random date that isnt stored, zero actual verification
it’s the same as doing nothing
Do you live in a region that requires it by law? Because steam enforces it there, not just a dropdown box.
Yes, and Steam decided to just block all pornographic content instead of complying.
Check steamdb.info’s “restricted_countries” field for any such game
Paywall.
Sites deploy these based on an uptick in views and where your IP is based. Set your VPN to Iceland, it’s not locked at time of writing. Try another location if it is.
schnurritoI hope the UK one day becomes a less anti-freedom country because I would really find it interesting to travel there, but things like this are killing my desire to do so.
John Perry Barlow got it right 30 years ago: www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence
A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
by John Perry Barlow Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.We have no elected...
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Lvxferre [he/him]Troll has a point.
Disregard for a moment it’s 4chan doing it. Once I do so, I feel like their approach to this matter is close to ideal: they’re highlighting that the entity in question is stepping over its legal boundaries, they’re taunting the lawyers trying to bully them into submission, and they’re ridiculing both the entity in charge of the bullying and the law being used to do so. A shitty law that we know to not be about protecting children, it’s using children as hostages to kill internet anonymity.
I wish more sites did the same.
[BTW there’s a similar law here in Brazil, the “lei Felca”. Equally ridiculous. But given this is Latin America, and law enforcement in LatAm is notoriously sloppy… so far it changed absolutely nothing for me.]