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

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- tyler@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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  - rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Yeah, that would be a first time enforcement didn’t really bother to read the law they should be enforcing.
    
    So they might add it later when stuff like this becomes more common, but right now it’s not illegal, according to the law and disregarding everything else that doesn’t really have any legal hold and is really just a guideline.
    
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    tyler@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    You didn’t read the second sentence of that quote.
    
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  - Skavau@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Reddit is super-screwed then because its full of users doing exactly that anywhere this topic comes up.
    
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    tyler@programming.dev ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I very much doubt it has anything to do with being a citizen. The law would apply to the company making the statements itself.
    
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