Ok so 4chan is exempt as a "small forum" but they want to ban under sixteens from using GitHub, Steam, and YouTube Kids.
First one is a Website for developing software, second is a game store and the third is LITERALLY YOUTUBE PURGED OF ADULT CONTENT AND THE COMMENT FEATURE TURNED OFF!
Do these people actually look at the things they want to ban.
(Yes deleting the UUID breaks the URL. Which means everything in the URL except that is probably useless)
It's beyond insane that the place where most of the whacko conspiracy theories were created {4chan) is somehow excluded.
They are going after the users and street dealers again.
Why the hell is Github even on this list?
4chan doesn't need an account. There's nothing to verify.
Just give them time, they'll get there, the end result of this is a China style firewall I assume
The pre-facebook internet is dead and buried :(
Casuals ruin everything
There's a really simple solution to this that e-safety refuses to consider. Let anyone make an account but limit public interaction until age is verified. That way they could apply the ban to everything from Reddit and 4chan all the way to Steam and Github without major disruption (well, maybe with Github it'd be a bit disruptive).
And while they're at it they should do something about algorithmic brain rot.
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