Context: UK passed this online safety act thing a few days ago (source) where you have to verify your age on sites that might contain nsfw content and the checks involve stuff like uploading a photo of your face, ID or even your passport. if anything it’s just making people more unsafe (look what happened with the Tea app which required similar verification (source)). ain’t gonna dox myself to the government/companies and it’s easily circumvented using TOR lol. fuck da system🤘
It would be great to have a restriction stronger than “are you 18 years or older?” so I can let my kids roam the internet without care. But this is a bit backwards.
There are plenty of options for blocking unwanted material from kids.
This is a leap towards removing any anonymity or privacy online so you can be punished for wrongthink - there is nothing here which helps protect children any better than what was already in place.
We should always be wary of laws being passed in the name of “protecting the children”, because often they are used to justify government overreach, censorship, and good old fashioned authoritarianism.
Parents should educate themselves on how to curate a healthy online experience for their child, and I dare say maybe don’t shove in iPad in their face from being a baby just to keep them quiet.
Or just be a good parent and don’t rely on censorship laws to be your babysitter.
Obviously, but not everyone is a good parent. What happens to those kids?
They end up the same as all of us.
Low-key if you’re that incompetent you don’t know about any kind of parental blocking you shouldn’t have kids in the first place. We really don’t need more stupid in the gene pool
I just hope they won’t move toward the “oh, you use encryption? Let’s see how it protects you from solitary in jail” step too fast.
And no, I’m not sarcastic, I’m worried.
I used a VPN yesterday to see how it looks in the UK. Seems a lot of porn sites don’t give a shit about UK and don’t require any verification. So once again, the law abiding sites are punished while kids are pushed towards the lawless ones. As predicted.
are you telling me the thing that’s meant to harvest personal data isn’t useful as a child protective tool?
I’m shocked, shocked I tell you.
But tor is slow af isn’t it?
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