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If you’re using cloudflare you can block counties via that.

I’m also in the UK and run an instance - the problem is that the guidance is too large and overbearing. The stuff that actually mattered hadn’t even been released by OFCOM last time I bothered looking, such as the risk assessment.

I guess we’ll know more when they release the guidance on age verification - that will be what kills most sites off if they insist its required for all social media

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Lugh@futurology.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

the problem is that the guidance is too large and overbearing.

This.

Who gets to decide what “self-harm” is? There’ll be some busybodies who’ll say that any remotely positive messaging for LGBTQ youth is self-harm.

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- Demigodrick@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Exactly. Don’t get me wrong, meta and X are a cesspool without moderation or a thought for the users wellbeing, and deserve tidying up. But it’s going to kill spaces where people can express themselves, and drive UK users underground.
  
  Now would be a good time to start a VPN business targeted to UK users. Actually…
  
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- schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  anything teenagers actually want to do and enjoy doing is self-harm, haven’t you gotten the memo that adults know in 100% of all cases what’s good for them a lot better than they themselves do
  
  (To any reader unironically agreeing with the above paragraph, I suggest reading this webcomic.)
  
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