Comment on I highlighted the VPN part so that everyone knows to not use them

artyom@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Source? Cause mine (www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/50 aka the fucking law) doesn’t say anything like that.

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  • tyler@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not who you’re responding to but techlinked called out that it’s illegal as well and showed the legislation text in their video. But if you’re not implementing the ID check in the first place then mentioning vpns doesn’t matter at all. I can’t even get your link to load.

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    • rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t believe guidelines are above the actual law.

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      • tyler@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1k81lj8nvpo

        According to Ofcom, platforms must not host, share or permit content encouraging use of VPNs to get around age checks. The government told the BBC under the Online Safety Act, it will be illegal for platforms to do this.

        Ofcom is the regulator so I’m guessing they read the law a little more closely than you.

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  • flamingos@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Section 4.37 of Ofcom’s Guidance on Highly Effective Age Assurance for Part 3 Services:

    In addition, service providers should not publish content on their service that directs or encourages UK users to circumvent the age assurance process or the access controls, for example by providing information about or links to a virtual private network (VPN) which may be used by children to circumvent the relevant processes.

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    • rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s guidance, not law.

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      • flamingos@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Ofcom is the designated regulator and has the power of enforcement. The law doesn’t define what it set out what age verification means, only that they much be ‘highly effective’ (Section 12 (6)). It is therefore left to Ofcom to set out in its Code of Practices (Section 41 (3)) what ‘highly effective age verification’ means, which is what this guidance is. This isn’t Ofcom being nice, this is them telling you how they’re going to enforce the law.

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    • then_three_more@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Should, not must. Like the highway code should rules and must rules.

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  • artyom@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well, nope.

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• lena@gregtech.eu ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wait, what‽

  Source?

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  • rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Dude trust me. It’s not there anywhere.

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