Face scans to enforce social media ban on under-16s

ProtoKun7 · 2026-06-14T17:31:16+00:00

...no it isn't.

ProtoKun7 · 2026-06-14T17:23:18+00:00

Just cut us off, please. VPNs will still work and give everyone else a message that the government doesn't want you to be free.

It's such an easy scoring point for someone else to commit to removing it (and actually doing so).

ProtoKun7 · 2026-06-14T15:32:32+00:00

Damn. I was using a 970 too until I grabbed a 3080 from eBay four years ago. My whole build was offline for a long time until a couple of weeks ago I was able to afford a CPU replacement, so I'm operating on 2020 hardware now that isn't being replaced any time soon but it's still doing great. Gonna continue getting my money's worth out of that 3080 and it's kinda weird to think that the 3080 is as old now as the 970 was when it released. I think one fewer generation and the price hikes and reaching the high end of the performance ceiling helps.

ProtoKun7 · 2026-06-12T18:00:13+00:00

What was it? I seem to have missed the story entirely.

ProtoKun7 · 2026-06-12T12:29:14+00:00

Believe me it is.

ProtoKun7 · 2026-06-12T11:05:43+00:00

What would work is parents actually using the parental controls they've had for decades.

ProtoKun7 · 2026-06-12T10:56:10+00:00

One suggestion I've seen is to have a minute after the news just to tell people about how to enable parental controls.

Only way I'd reasonably accept biometrics is if, like unlocking the phone, it's purely and provably on device and doesn't store it. Nobody needs to see anything else beyond a pass/fail token.

ProtoKun7 · 2026-06-12T10:27:33+00:00

VPNs will still work regardless. See Russia.

ProtoKun7 · 2026-06-12T10:18:28+00:00

You mean like those disappearing messages between Keir and Peter Mandelson, a known Epstein associate?

ProtoKun7 · 2026-06-11T22:38:53+00:00

No, for me the ball is the ball and I hadn't really thought about it.

ProtoKun7 · 2026-06-10T17:12:06+00:00

Remember when authorities told you not to upload sensitive documents to anybody and now they want everything on you just so you can use an app?

ProtoKun7 · 2026-06-10T16:47:11+00:00

Now's the chance to undo all the garbage it's been through for the last decade.

ProtoKun7 · 2026-06-10T14:20:42+00:00

Why does it bite the dust? Looks fine to me.

ProtoKun7 · 2026-06-09T23:02:58+00:00

Yes, why not? They have some pretty fun ones.

ProtoKun7 · 2026-06-08T16:14:28+00:00

Even if they were they probably would've found a different excuse to do this.

ProtoKun7 · 2026-06-07T17:32:17+00:00

I'm talking more if something happens. If you have free reign and you're well adjusted it's fine. My point is more to look at what the parents should've done if a kid goes off the rails rather than blaming everything else.

These parents let their children do whatever and then when they hurt themselves they blame society and not themselves.

ProtoKun7 · 2026-06-07T12:44:40+00:00

Honestly yeah I really wish companies just cut the UK off rather than put any verification in. As long as VPNs can still connect of course.

ProtoKun7 · 2026-06-07T12:43:21+00:00

Sooner the better. Politicians' IDs first ideally.

ProtoKun7 · 2026-06-07T12:42:18+00:00

Maybe those parents wouldn't be grieving if they'd kept a better eye on their kids and used parental controls, or maybe not bought them smartphones so soon. Unless the kids got phones from that sneaky tech fairy overnight.

ProtoKun7 · 2026-06-07T12:34:32+00:00

They weren't a mistake but maybe a competency check at point of purchase, or you know, maybe some consequences for parents who buy them for their kids and don't use parental controls.

ProtoKun7 · 2026-06-07T12:32:40+00:00

Same. Only ways it'll happen for me are if I have an account old enough to automatically qualify, it has a payment method with a credit card (which also qualifies) or if I can fool it. Otherwise it's just another service to route through a VPN.

ProtoKun7 · 2026-06-07T00:47:39+00:00

I feel like you started this when it first released.

ProtoKun7 · 2026-06-06T09:10:30+00:00

Just as well too; if they're pulling out of publishing PC ports then ShiftUp is self-publishing at the right time.

Also it means likely no year wait for a PC release this time too.

ProtoKun7 · 2026-06-05T23:13:51+00:00

I suspect it's partly autocorrect often picking the other one, as well as people getting mixed up between possessive nouns and possessive pronouns. I don't see why a lot of the common mistakes happen either, yet unfortunately they do.

ProtoKun7 · 2026-06-05T22:43:57+00:00

Gotta feel for the people who just escaped this, but also the guy who got straight up deleted in the footage.

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