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QuantumSpecter@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days ago

Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK

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QuantumSpecter@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days ago
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Spotify is the latest app to bring in age verification
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    Age verification is a great success I see. I feel so much safer now with this shit in place so kids can’t watch porn…

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      …on major/regulated sites only.

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      The worst was watching porn on spotify…

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      It has absolutely nothing to do with kids watching porn.

      Of course.

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      *so that the government can say kids won’t watch porn.

      Rule 1 of computers that everyone who has taught an ICT class learns - if little Timmy wants titties, he finds a way.

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      God forbid people teach their kids sex/getting off is a drug and can be abused.

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        Who taught you sex is a drug? As long as words mean their definitions, it’s categorically not. Plus it’s probably kinda harmful to pile on the stigma already surrounding sex by conflating it with drugs and all the stigma that comes with that.

        Hopefully I’m wrong, but it’s kinda giving a nofap pseudoscience red flag to me.

        Parents definitely should be teaching their kids about this stuff at the appropriate time, but they should stick to the facts.

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          First they came for the sex, then they came after the drugs. Now they’re trying to take my rock and roll

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            I’ve heard music is a drug, too. It was all drugs, all along. We probably should’ve known, honestly.

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              Life is a drug if you hit it right

              • ivanafterall ☑️@lemmy.world
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                I thought life was a highway?

                • some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world
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                  Life is the highway you boof

                  • xspurnx@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                    “Life is a one way street, I’m doing doughnuts.” (Aw Man Oh Dear)

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            Did you know that rock and roll is actually a plate of spaghetti?

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              Spaghetti = Carbs = Sugar = Addictive Drug

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              yeah but I lost my poor meatball.

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                A fellow Bread Harrity super fan I see? I’d like to get all up in that beautiful man’s wet spaghetti 🍝

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          Sex on drugs is awesome…

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          I mean… it is a rush of dopamine and can become addictive. Same as a videogame or gambling though. Not a drug but can get unhealthy if it leads to maladaptive daily functioning.

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