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Facebook's New Captcha Test: 'Upload A Clear Photo of Your Face' (wired.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: Facebook may soon ask you to "upload a photo of yourself that clearly shows your face," to prove you're not a bot. The company is using a new kind of captcha to verify whether a user is a real person. According to a screenshot of the identity test shared on Twitter on Tuesday and verified by Facebook, the prompt says: "Please upload a photo of yourself that clearly shows your face. We'll check it and then permanently delete it from our servers." The process is automated, including identifying suspicious activity and checking the photo. To determine if the account is authentic, Facebook looks at whether the photo is unique.
I think that the political left likes to focus on identity so much because identity is so essential to their scheme of identity politics. They can't divide people into arbitrary and conflicting groups when people choose to be nameless and faceless online. This collective unity through a lack of discernable identity is devastating to the techniques of identity politics. It takes control from the leadership of the political left and brings it back to the masses. They can't target and attack specific individuals or groups when these individuals and groups can't be isolated and defined. That's why they're so obsessed with using real names, and tying these to real pictures of faces, and other creepiness like that. The political left needs people to have specific identities so that these identities can be used to attack, divide and control the masses at large.
You think that because you're an idiot. The right does far more dividing than the left does, it's just that you people are too stupid to realize it.
I did it a year ago, don't miss it at all. I have no interest whatsoever in Facebook, or any of their social media crap.
At this point, I pretty much don't use any websites which require me to login. I'm over it. It's amazing how easy it is to live without this shit.
>I have yet to see evidence that the Charlottesville "Unite the Right" rally was a "white nationalist" event at all; it seems some white nationalists chose independently to attend it and that's all it took.
I think the Charlottesville UTR was an astroturf event by the left. The organizer, Jason Kessler, had previously been active in Occupy Wall Street. But suddenly, after the election of Donald Trump went from being a strident leftist protesting our evil capitalist system to a white nationalist? Call me skeptical.
Additionally, there were plenty of eye witness accounts of "protestors" from both sides getting bussed in - in the same or adjoining busses and getting off at the same time.
The rally itself was permitted, but when the bulk of the UTR folks went to the rally point, the police at that point declared it unlawful and channeled the protestors (by buffeting them with riot shields) into the counter protestors where they were then assaulted with rocks, bottles, sticks, pepper spray, etc.
So basically, there was a widespread implicit (and probably explicit) coordination between the authorities, the UTR organizers, and the left to create an incident that would reflect poorly on the right. Does it mean that there weren't real white nationalists and racists present and involved? Of course not, but the entire thing stank of a setup. I think the local and state authorities along with the left (but I repeat myself) got exactly what they wanted where previously the evidence was overwhelmingly in the direction that it was the left carrying out violent attacks just prior (e.g., Berkeley).