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[–] 5 points 10 hours ago (1 child)

Strange. I'd think they'd want everyone shopping.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 hours ago

    So you're going to ban amazon.co.uk too right... right?

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  • [–] 4 points 6 hours ago

    Keeping vulnerable kids under the thumbs of bad parents and tyrants.

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    [–] 16 points 1 day ago

    Meanwhile the public are looking seriously at whether the government has completely lost the plot.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 day ago (5 children)

    What next, ID verification required to open an Argos catalogue? Go into Tesco? Although, Tesco already charge you more if you are under 18 as children can't join their card system

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  • [–] 6 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Can under-18s hold many loyalty discount cards? I expect co-op stores allow it from 16, as they've been supporting votes at 16 for years.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Its due to laws on data harvesting on children. If coop doesn't harvest that data then they could give them to children too. Tbh more people should probably be mad at Tesco for harvesting that data, but they don't.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago* (1 child)

    Yeah, co-op are likely being all ethical again. Or trying to.

    Look at the checkout conveyor dividers in Morrisons some time: they literally say "Morrisons More Card: more conveyor snooping" or something similar. People just don't realise the cost.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 day ago

    Naughty children! How dare they shop!

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  • [–] 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Just ban the internet at this point.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Seriously, this is getting out of hand. Pure authoritarianism is what this is, constantly nagging and nagging and people are naive enought to trust such motives.

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  • [–] 3 points 12 hours ago*

    This was the intention all along.

    That, and MasterCard and VISA wanted more businesses to use card authentications for age checks. Businesses have been skipping authentication to save on fees, and they knew that even if other technology came along they'd still get a few more. Literally, the OSA only vaguely describes ID or face scanning (because the technology didn't really exist at the time), but spells out card transactions as the default method of age verification.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Can we seriously look at banning this government? Greens seem sensible enough.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago

    I'll take the greens. Only candidate in the last election who has done anything beneficial to society. Last I saw her she was taking part in a clean up at the local beach.

    Labour candidate was a gymbro. Libdem hadn't bothered to update his profile since running in a previous election over 100 miles away, Tory is current MP and voted to allow water companies to endlessly dump sewage on the beach. She is also a fucking moron (or happy to pander to far right hate mobs) based on the few posts I have heard of from her.

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  • [–] 3 points 21 hours ago (1 child)

    God, you can't sell anyone these days.

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  • [–] 2 points 12 hours ago

    Luckily, UK govt will adopt Sam Altman's Orb and everyone can probe who they are by eye scan. O Brave New World...

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  • [–] 1 point 12 hours ago*

    .... but why?

    And who the fuck is Lisa Nandy?? Bit of a shit article, BBC.

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