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Alternative title: ID verification to be required for all UK citizens to use social media
by nly 4mo ago
Alternative title: ID verification to be required for all UK citizens to use social media
- jonplackett 4mo agoWell I needed a good reason to quit social media. This can be it.
- stavros 4mo agoHe posted, on a social media website.
- drnick1 4mo agoHN is not "social media," in a conventional sense, far from it. For one, it is completely anonymous, at least if you want it to be.
- davb 4mo agoBut under Ofcom rules, it is social media if we are to assume that they’ll apply the same scoping as the Online Safety Act does for user-to-user services. I think a lot of comments here assume that only sites like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Twitter/X would be in scope, but I see no reason why they wouldn’t use the same definitions from the OSA (essentially any site where user-to-user communication and content posting takes place, including forums and aggregators).
- Natfan 4mo agohn is a user-to-user service
- pyb 4mo agoIf Reddit is "social media", so is HN.
- demorro 4mo agoWhich was not contradictory, as they were saying they wanted to quit. I also want to quit all social media, including hackernews, in the same way I want to quit eating Mcdonalds and getting high all the time.
- danielrmay 4mo agoI went back to the UK a few weeks ago for an old friend's wedding, and the ID verification process shocked me.
- like_any_other 4mo agoAnd as usual, no pro-privacy or pro-freedom groups were asked to give a comment for the article. I guess nobody objects on those grounds!