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The UK law is significantly less stringent and better thought out than equivalent age verification laws already in place in a bunch of US states....
by crimsoneer 1y ago
The UK law is significantly less stringent and better thought out than equivalent age verification laws already in place in a bunch of US states....
- nonethewiser 1y agoAh yes, what about the US. Which law are you talking about by the way? I was mostly familiar with laws that required porn companies to verify their user's age. That is a lot more targeted and less offensive than UK Online Safety Act Regulations IMO. I mean it's already illegal to distribute porn to minors - that's just requiring them to enforce it at the expense of porn watcher's anonymity. Whereas the UK Online Safety Act is more like a backdoor for content moderation across the internet.
- ectospheno 1y agoThe online safety act being a more well thought out step on this slippery slope doesn’t mean it isn’t leading to the same horrible end. We are just rearranging deck chairs on the titanic.
- nemomarx 1y agoI think those age verification laws don't target as many sites though, right? not Wikipedia at least