cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/37698883
- Twitch now requires facial age verification to watch mature content in some regions using video selfies processed on your device.
- The system uses k-ID technology and targets gambling streams and other 18+ content to comply with new online safety laws.
- Users must scan their face to access restricted streams with many expressing privacy concerns about the new requirement.
Yes, but this particular abusive feature is a result of misguided legislation, not profit-seeking.
That’s usually the same thing with a different color of lube.
You guys are getting lube??
I just saw the guy from that meme in death of a unicorn.
Not really significant I just felt like sharing
I’m getting real tired of all this capitalist apologism, as though they don’t own our political class and aren’t directly behind both de-anonimization and anti-encryption leglislation.
All you have to do is follow the fucking money and power behind surveillance capitalism.
Respectfully, they’re more like happy bedfellows with overlapping agendas but uniquely different end goals. They appear to be the same, because they cooperate often.
I think at this point we should stop calling things like this misguided. They aren’t.
It is a global effort by the ultra wealthy to instill fear and control in the majority populace of the world… The working class.
These measures are calculated to dissuade people from even attempting to rise up against the system out of an abundance of fear, designed to keep them in control as long as possible while they rape the planet and people of its resources, happiness and strength to fight. All so they can continue doing whatever they want because they likely won’t be alive long enough to see the long term effects.
Do I believe there is an inkling of good in there, sure but that little bit of good is from the under/uneducated populace that probably really do have good intentions when voting for these things. These people likely have no understanding of the underlying amount of data that is being collected on them and everyone else.
Just like me typing up this response, it’s probably being recorded somewhere other than on these instances and being parsed by some computer scanning the internet for discontent and trying to tie it to anything it can in regards to a physical person.
The goal is maximum control. The only people that are misguided are the ones voting for these things that don’t understand the ramifications. The ones that don’t care and/or are in a position of power are not misguided.
You know where we should start, the Epstein files. They don’t want to do that though because it would disrupt a lot the ruling class from retaining power and expose the fact that these things that are happening behind closed doors are tied to them more than the working class. There would be worldwide repercussions.
It’s not just about human trafficking and accessing adult content. It’s about war, the environment, money, and control.
The fear (in the ruling class) is starting to show, just a little bit. The cracks are forming, but the more influence they have over the uneducated helps them to maintain power. The world needs to keep the pressure on and let the ruling class know that we don’t stand for this.
The American government and corporations are a massive part of the problem. I say that as an American. I’ve never voted for the orange dildo and from day one have been openly opposed to him and probably 80% of the people in power. That being said, this is also a global effort. It’s not just happening here, we just have the biggest incompetent mouthpieces in the world.
You are right, but I bet they can monetize this somehow or at least exploit it for their own interests