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‘Britain’s most tattooed man’ claims he is unable to watch p*rn as 'new age check system mistakes his ink for a mask' | Need To Know (needtoknow.co.uk)

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

do not assume malice when incompetence suffices

Or, in this case, physics. You assume that, where physics is the issue, it must be racism because... Everything is racism, I guess?

Dark skin color reflect less light. Somebody with an extremely dark skinay actually reflect so little light that it's harder to make out details. Could this be adjusted for? Up to certain levels, I'm sure. Should we call everything racist automatically?

Probably not

But

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Dark skin color reflect less light.

Imagine a world in which every picture of a white person came out with them looking olive green.

And imagine the camera company - based out of the ultra-wealth Ethiopian tech sector that holds all the patents on the technology - putting out a PR brief that says "Nothing we can do. Human skin isn't supposed to be that reflective."

Could this be adjusted for?

Yes. But it would require people to acknowledge the problem and care enough to fix it.