Age Verification: What’s sold as “online safety” means surveillance via ids checks or face scans.

Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨unknowingvoid@sh.itjust.works⁩ to ⁨unitedkingdom@feddit.uk⁩

First they came for adults site and social media; now they are already discussing about putting vpns and app stores behind age verification.

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Zombie@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Such online safety that when a website almost every politician and journalist is on has publicly visible CSAM, fuck all is done about it.

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- mjr@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  It’s almost like this law is more about shutting down small online forums that might organise and agitate against governments than it is about safety online, isn’t it?
  
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- Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Safety for them, not for you or children.
  
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- FishFace@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  The act is what the government are threatening Twitter with…
  
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  - Zombie@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Oooh, big scary threats! What have they done though?
    
    Do you think piefed.social or Feddit.UK would be up long if they were doing the same thing? They would be immediately blocked and the admins arrested. No such thing has happened to Twitter.
    
    Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
    
    We are ruled by Red Conservatives.
    
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MichaelHenrikWynn@lemmy.ca ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
In France they have a separate company that verifies the age, and when you then visit your eccentric and embarrassing porn site, they verify the age, but provide no further info.

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