Britain’s most tattooed man has a lot more time on his hands and not a lot else thanks to new porn laws.
The King of Ink says facial recognition tech has made it harder to chat to webcam girls, after sites started mistaking his tattooed face for a mask.
The new rules came into force last week, introducing stricter checks under Ofcom’s children’s codes.
The King of Ink, as he’s legally known, said: ‘Some of the websites are asking for picture verification, like selfies, and it’s not recognising my face.
‘It’s saying “remove your mask” because the technology is made so you can’t hold up a picture to the camera or wear a mask.
‘Would this also be the case for someone who is disfigured? They should have thought of this from day one.’
The businessman and entrepreneur, from Stechford, Birmingham, feels discriminated against on the basis of his permanent identity.
The tattoo enthusiast says his heavily tattooed face is a permanent part of his identity (Picture: @kingofinklandkingbodyart)
‘It’s as important as the name really and I changed my name legally,’ he said
‘Without a name you haven’t got an identity, and it’s the same with a face.
So many ways to circumvent it, so many ways it break and really, age verification’s only winners are the tech companies that people are forced to pay money to.
Robin Edgar
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