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This post was last modified: 07-29-2025, 08:42 PM by Encia22.
We are allowing this?
Online censorship and control by another name.
https://youtube.com/shorts/Tt9mWa-r6Bw?s...Bk3h5UZaMF
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Your source says the implemented requirements can be easily circumvented, so what's the problem? Nothing will change, right?
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(07-29-2025, 05:19 PM)quintessentone Wrote: Your source says the implemented requirements can be easily circumvented, so what's the problem? Nothing will change, right?
How many hornets nests are you going to poke today? Circumvented... a work around is no substitute for the real thing.
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(07-29-2025, 05:26 PM)SomeStupidName Wrote: How many hornets nests are you going to poke today? Circumvented... a work around is no substitute for the real thing.
So asking questions is now considered poking hornets nests here? Maybe in your mind only.
A work around is making the process redundant. So much for trying to protect children online.
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(07-29-2025, 05:00 PM)Cymru Wrote: We are allowing this?
Online censorship and control by another name.
https://youtube.com/shorts/Tt9mWa-r6Bw?s...Bk3h5UZaMF
Technically, the Online Safety Act threatens privacy by undermining encryption.
And it may actually force global platforms to comply with UK standards, which would seem rather draconian on our part.
It also endangers online anonymity with the ID requirements, which weakens internet security for everyone.
"Yet so it is, we see the illiterate bulk of mankind that walk the high-road of plain common sense, and are governed by the dictates of nature, for the most part easy and undisturbed. To them nothing that is familiar appears unaccountable or difficult to comprehend."
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(07-29-2025, 05:19 PM)quintessentone Wrote: Your source says the implemented requirements can be easily circumvented, so what's the problem? Nothing will change, right?
So far, you can simply turn on a VPN and circumvent the requirements.
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Which sites will this affect?
"The days of porn users ticking a box to say they are 18 are meant to be over.From Friday, websites operating in the UK with pornographic content must "robustly" age-check users."
"All sites and apps allowing pornography in the UK will be required to have "highly effective" methods to check the age of users by 25 July.
Pornhub and a number of other major adult websites have confirmed they will introduce enhanced age checks, while Reddit has already introduced age verification to stop people aged under 18 from looking at "certain mature content".
Ofcom said X and Grindr have committed to age checks. X says it is planning to introduce facial age estimation using its own artificial intelligence (AI) technology.
Facial scans will also be used by Telegram to determine if users are over or under 18, according to the platform's privacy policy.
Discord gives UK users a choice of face or ID scanning as a way to verify their age, after testing methods, and Bluesky says it will give UK users a range of different verification options.
Many more services which allow sexually explicit material may need to bring in measures to comply with the new rules."
Online Safety Act: Which sites will require UK age verification?
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(07-29-2025, 05:29 PM)quintessentone Wrote: A work around is making the process redundant. So much for trying to protect children online. Work arounds are band aides at best, we also can't just give away everything we got. You can do things to limit kids exposure to bad things but it's going to happen and that doesn't mean do nothing. You acknowledge there is already a work around that now means that most of them already know and you have given up something and received nothing accomplish nothing. How is that a solution?
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(07-29-2025, 05:47 PM)SomeStupidName Wrote: Work arounds are band aides at best, we also can't just give away everything we got. You can do things to limit kids exposure to bad things but it's going to happen and that doesn't mean do nothing. You acknowledge there is already a work around that now means that most of them already know and you have given up something and received nothing accomplish nothing. How is that a solution?
Well, I'm not sure their work around, or getting VPNs, will work for too long as many of these adult sites are required to do their own work arounds around the work arounds. If you get what I mean.
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(07-29-2025, 05:54 PM)quintessentone Wrote: Well, I'm not sure their work around, or getting VPNs, will work for too long as many of these adult sites are required to do their own work arounds around the work arounds. If you get what I mean.
How do you stop them from using a VPN?
You can't.
All it will accomplish is to create a constant cat-and-mouse game between users trying to bypass restrictions and platforms trying to enforce them.
People will find a way or a means.
So this is just a waste of time and resources if you think about it.
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