dehydration.bsky.social

(3) working together to create and innovate on ways to dodge law enforcement that THEN aids those possessing CSAM

This is why it’s unwise to overly regulate pornography, people want to access porn, help each other to do so, but when more and more material is deemed unlawful to possess it

(2) a very obvious reason, it makes more people create resources / guides / opsec insight for accessing and looking at pornography they’re not supposed to have legally. Great in the case of an idiotic ban on roleplay between consenting adults, but the last thing you want is a ton of people

The UK targeting possession for incest roleplay porn (ie one of the most popular porn genres ever) means people are going to be quickly coming together to figure out and spread tips / tricks / insights into discreetly looking at and sharing it with minimal trace on one’s phone

This is bad for (1)

been really frustrating reading every single company say "don't worry! we care about your privacy and persona does too! they told us they will respect your privacy so its ok :)))"

Twitch too it looks like. I think they all saw the backlash from the Discord announcement and what they learned was: Just don't announce it. The piss off is that it might be working. I'm hoping we can get them to back off Persona at least but the age verify trend I guess needs some policies beaten.

They're all fulla shit. Funny how fast companies can enact changes when it benefits them. US hasn't even made these policies law yet, and second of all, I'm in Canada for fucks sake. Obviously we gotta fight the policies but no reason not to take the companies to task along the way. Fuck Em All 2026

support ticket email response that reads: "Hi there, I'm Nova with Patreon Creator Support! Thank you so much for sharing your concerns about our identity verification process. I want to reassure you that this step isn't about collecting more data—we already take your privacy seriously and only use verified information for compliance and security purposes. Partnering with Persona allows us to securely verify identities while keeping your data protected, which helps prevent fraud and keeps the Patreon community safe. While I’m unable to guarantee changes to this requirement, I'll be sure to share your feedback with our team. If you encounter further issues or have questions about the verification process, please let me know and I'll do some more digging. I appreciate your patience and continued support. Kind regards, Nova"

Don't worry guys Patreon has assured me that it's actually awesome that they use Persona

Fact Check: Jesse Singal Lies About Trans Care At The New York Times The New York Times spreads misinformation about transgender people yet again.

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This time, it comes from Jesse Singal.

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patreon and twitch using persona is extremely baffling because it's not even necessary for them to verify your age through biometric data when they're literally already asking for your fucking social security number and tax information btw

you should keep drying up their user revenue source in the middle of
trying to take the company public

actually the stupidest fucking country on earth. stripping your right to a jury trial bc the courts are backed up but we gotta make sure to prosecute people for playing pretend wrong

This is like if 2/3 of the people in Wyoming fled the state.

Okay- I guess that explains that then. I was thinking that it was a case of being unable to control the initial behavior but being able to apologize afterwards but then again I also kind of ignored the part where they did- so… yeah. Fuck.

Right, fine, I'll weigh in on the Discourse:
Tourettes is a real neurological condition and setting your blood to boil over someone with Tourette's displaying the symptoms of their disease in public is essentially saying that someone with Tourette's shouldn't have a public life.

There should be space to both have compassion for someone with a disease and also for the people impacted by that person's harmful actions.

"He can't help it" isn't the same as "he shouldn't apologize" isn't the same as "the event who hosted him shouldn't apologize"

Ah. Shit.

Say it with me now:

“It’s not about the kids, it’s about control”

This is actually them trying to make you step on a slippery slope that will never ends until they've beaten every last bit of socialism out of you. It works in much the same way that fascist propaganda pipelines do: start off easy, then continuously escalate until you've been fully [de]radicalized

I've been thinking that this particular thing is just an instance of a greater phenomenon that everyone needs to recognize at some point: liberals can pretty convincingly suggest that they'll accept socialist ideas if only you make them a little more “reasonable”, but this is always a lie

Leftists and socialists defending newsom are why we need to just call ourselves Marxists or communists

I'm really feeling like we should just talk to mother fuckers about this more and more. Like hold the educational classes case clearly people have kinks and are afraid of what that says about them instead of just realizing people have kinks and it's not indicative of people overall

local idiot who pressed the A button too fast during the personality quiz wonders why everyone calls her "absol"

continue to cancel your Discord Nitro and sending them feedback that Age Identification/giving discord or "3rd parties" our real ID is unacceptable.

unless they say "we are not going to implement this policy", assume theyre just kicking the can down the road

Discord cooked what little user trust it had left

Hey Discord, you can't get "age assurance" (spying) right

Getting Global Age Assurance Right: What We Got Wrong and What's Changing Discord's CTO addresses community concerns about age assurance: no mass ID collection, new vendor transparency commitments, and a delayed global launch until 2026.

Discord has now posted about this: discord.com/blog/getting...

discord: 2 weeks of free nitro me: no discord discord: $0 me: no discord

Just a reminder while this is a victory, it's not over yet until Discord completely gives up on the age verification nonsense. Don't resubcribe to Nitro immediately.

They have not completely confirmed that they will stop the age verification requirement. Only that they will not use Persona or anything associated with Peter Thiel. This does NOT MEAN we should let up on them. Make them hurt! Make them COMMIT to not implementing it, at all, PERIOD!

two otters one is showing off her baby and the other is showing off a pipe with a headline that says that

being at the age where everyone you know is having children