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Age Assurance: NO THANK YOU (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 days ago by to c/peoplebluesky@lemmy.world
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Bluesky, keep your "Age Assurance", I'm definitely not going to upload my ID, biometrics or anything else to your partner "Kids Web Services"

Would never trust their parent company Epic Games (owned by Disney / Tencent...)

Luckily there are plenty of ways to bypass this: https://gist.github.com/cynion/e92af851c2d2d015c67aaa0170baaeff

Privacy Matters!

Screenshot of the Bluesky "Age Assurance" pop up The text on it reads: "Due to laws in your region, certain features on Bluesky are currently restricted until you're able to verify you're an adult. Based on your network, we think you're in United Kingdom. This estimate may be inaccurate if you're using a VPN."
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[–] 4 points 2 days ago (1 child)

What is the punishment for not complying? I know what this law requires, but I don't know how the UK goes about actually enforcing this kind of regulation.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago

    Here's an example of another US based company refusing to comply with UK internet law and how that's going:

    Lawyer Myles Jackman, who specialises in sexual liberties and obscenity law, said the case lays bare one of the practical weaknesses of the OSA - that the UK regulator has “no right imposing fines on US domiciled companies that they have no right to collect”.

    “The UK government has no jurisdiction over the American Constitution,” he said, adding that Ofcom could decide to issue enforcement proceedings in the US as they have threatened but that they would “seem destined to fail”.

    He believes in order to retain “credibility” Ofcom will be left no choice but to block 4chan on UK internet service providers (ISPs), making the site inaccessible to users in the country. But he points out this will be easy to work around for those with VPNs.

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