Comment on Bluesky is rolling out age verification in the UK

Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• masterofn001@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Thanks for the information.

  I found this specific clause very … porous.

  Clarification — commercial purpose 6 For greater certainty, for the purpose of section 5, an organization that incidentally and not deliberately provides a service that is used to search for, transmit, download, store or access content on the Internet that is alleged to constitute pornographic material does not make available pornographic material on the Internet for commercial purposes.

  So… I guess Bing will once again be my goto incidental indeliberate porn search engine. And reddit. And Lemmy.

  www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/…/first-reading

  Surprisingly, a conservative senator had a fairly well reasoned, and cautious, (although still supportive), response speech.

  sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/…/008db_2025-06-10-e#…

  It still has a long way to goto get through senate committee and house readings and committees and all that. Still, might be a good time to scrape all the porn.

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  • Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Look at Bill S-210 from the last Parliament, it made it to 2nd reading in the House. There is cause for concern.

    I appreciate your dive into the topic though. Michael Geist has more info on his website.

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• conorab@lemmy.conorab.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Same in Australia. From memory the law has already passed, it’s just got a delay on it to give companies a chance to implement it.

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  • muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m looking forward to having a good excuse to delete most of my accounts and move entirely to decentralised platforms.

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    • conorab@lemmy.conorab.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Just hope they (Facebook and friends) give you the choice to delete OR verify those accounts and not require verification to delete it.

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      • muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You would be surprised what you can active with spamming angry emails

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