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Duh.
The Register: UK's Online Safety Act has made 'absolutely no difference,' kids say
https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/09/03/uks-online-safety-act-has-made-absolutely-no-difference-kids-say/5293893 -
Duh.
The Register: UK's Online Safety Act has made 'absolutely no difference,' kids say
https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/09/03/uks-online-safety-act-has-made-absolutely-no-difference-kids-say/5293893 -
Duh.
The Register: UK's Online Safety Act has made 'absolutely no difference,' kids say
https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/09/03/uks-online-safety-act-has-made-absolutely-no-difference-kids-say/5293893 -
Duh.
The Register: UK's Online Safety Act has made 'absolutely no difference,' kids say
https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/09/03/uks-online-safety-act-has-made-absolutely-no-difference-kids-say/5293893 -
So we had to sacrifice our #privacy and upload ID to sketchy websites, other websites had to disable comments, and still the #OnlineSafetyAct didn't actually deliver the supposed benefits to young people that we were all promised?
'More than a year after the OSA's key child protection duties took effect, de Souza told MPs and peers that young people had little understanding of the legislation or how it was intended to change their online experiences.'
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So we had to sacrifice our #privacy and upload ID to sketchy websites, other websites had to disable comments, and still the #OnlineSafetyAct didn't actually deliver the supposed benefits to young people that we were all promised?
'More than a year after the OSA's key child protection duties took effect, de Souza told MPs and peers that young people had little understanding of the legislation or how it was intended to change their online experiences.'
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So we had to sacrifice our #privacy and upload ID to sketchy websites, other websites had to disable comments, and still the #OnlineSafetyAct didn't actually deliver the supposed benefits to young people that we were all promised?
'More than a year after the OSA's key child protection duties took effect, de Souza told MPs and peers that young people had little understanding of the legislation or how it was intended to change their online experiences.'
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So we had to sacrifice our #privacy and upload ID to sketchy websites, other websites had to disable comments, and still the #OnlineSafetyAct didn't actually deliver the supposed benefits to young people that we were all promised?
'More than a year after the OSA's key child protection duties took effect, de Souza told MPs and peers that young people had little understanding of the legislation or how it was intended to change their online experiences.'
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So we had to sacrifice our #privacy and upload ID to sketchy websites, other websites had to disable comments, and still the #OnlineSafetyAct didn't actually deliver the supposed benefits to young people that we were all promised?
'More than a year after the OSA's key child protection duties took effect, de Souza told MPs and peers that young people had little understanding of the legislation or how it was intended to change their online experiences.'
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> Ofcom has today fined an online porn provider £700,000 for not having age checks in place, and a further £30,000 for failing to respond to a legally binding information request.
I had not heard of "xgroovy" before this enforcement action...
This site now has age verification in place; the fine related to July 2025 - November 2025.
I wouldn't bank on HM Treasury receiving payment of this fine any time soon :)
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> Ofcom has today fined an online porn provider £700,000 for not having age checks in place, and a further £30,000 for failing to respond to a legally binding information request.
I had not heard of "xgroovy" before this enforcement action...
This site now has age verification in place; the fine related to July 2025 - November 2025.
I wouldn't bank on HM Treasury receiving payment of this fine any time soon :)
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> Ofcom has today fined an online porn provider £700,000 for not having age checks in place, and a further £30,000 for failing to respond to a legally binding information request.
I had not heard of "xgroovy" before this enforcement action...
This site now has age verification in place; the fine related to July 2025 - November 2025.
I wouldn't bank on HM Treasury receiving payment of this fine any time soon :)
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> Ofcom has today fined an online porn provider £700,000 for not having age checks in place, and a further £30,000 for failing to respond to a legally binding information request.
I had not heard of "xgroovy" before this enforcement action...
This site now has age verification in place; the fine related to July 2025 - November 2025.
I wouldn't bank on HM Treasury receiving payment of this fine any time soon :)
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> Ofcom has today fined an online porn provider £700,000 for not having age checks in place, and a further £30,000 for failing to respond to a legally binding information request.
I had not heard of "xgroovy" before this enforcement action...
This site now has age verification in place; the fine related to July 2025 - November 2025.
I wouldn't bank on HM Treasury receiving payment of this fine any time soon :)
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This update from Ofcom, in terms of enforcement action under the #OnlineSafetyAct against Mega, for a file sharing service, is interesting - and probably comforting - in terms of how Ofcom and Mega engaged collaboratively, to solve a perceived issue, rather than Ofcom going straight to enforcement.
> We welcome the proactive approach that Mega has taken to engaging with Ofcom and its commitment to making timely and tangible improvements to the design and operation of its service Transfer.it.
> Considering Mega’s constructive approach to engaging with Ofcom, its willingness to make improvements to the design and operation of its service to directly address our concerns, and our desire to work productively with providers where possible to drive rapid improvements that increase the safety of UK users, we have decided to close this period of compliance remediation with Mega and take no further action at this time.
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This update from Ofcom, in terms of enforcement action under the #OnlineSafetyAct against Mega, for a file sharing service, is interesting - and probably comforting - in terms of how Ofcom and Mega engaged collaboratively, to solve a perceived issue, rather than Ofcom going straight to enforcement.
> We welcome the proactive approach that Mega has taken to engaging with Ofcom and its commitment to making timely and tangible improvements to the design and operation of its service Transfer.it.
> Considering Mega’s constructive approach to engaging with Ofcom, its willingness to make improvements to the design and operation of its service to directly address our concerns, and our desire to work productively with providers where possible to drive rapid improvements that increase the safety of UK users, we have decided to close this period of compliance remediation with Mega and take no further action at this time.
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This update from Ofcom, in terms of enforcement action under the #OnlineSafetyAct against Mega, for a file sharing service, is interesting - and probably comforting - in terms of how Ofcom and Mega engaged collaboratively, to solve a perceived issue, rather than Ofcom going straight to enforcement.
> We welcome the proactive approach that Mega has taken to engaging with Ofcom and its commitment to making timely and tangible improvements to the design and operation of its service Transfer.it.
> Considering Mega’s constructive approach to engaging with Ofcom, its willingness to make improvements to the design and operation of its service to directly address our concerns, and our desire to work productively with providers where possible to drive rapid improvements that increase the safety of UK users, we have decided to close this period of compliance remediation with Mega and take no further action at this time.
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This update from Ofcom, in terms of enforcement action under the #OnlineSafetyAct against Mega, for a file sharing service, is interesting - and probably comforting - in terms of how Ofcom and Mega engaged collaboratively, to solve a perceived issue, rather than Ofcom going straight to enforcement.
> We welcome the proactive approach that Mega has taken to engaging with Ofcom and its commitment to making timely and tangible improvements to the design and operation of its service Transfer.it.
> Considering Mega’s constructive approach to engaging with Ofcom, its willingness to make improvements to the design and operation of its service to directly address our concerns, and our desire to work productively with providers where possible to drive rapid improvements that increase the safety of UK users, we have decided to close this period of compliance remediation with Mega and take no further action at this time.
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This update from Ofcom, in terms of enforcement action under the #OnlineSafetyAct against Mega, for a file sharing service, is interesting - and probably comforting - in terms of how Ofcom and Mega engaged collaboratively, to solve a perceived issue, rather than Ofcom going straight to enforcement.
> We welcome the proactive approach that Mega has taken to engaging with Ofcom and its commitment to making timely and tangible improvements to the design and operation of its service Transfer.it.
> Considering Mega’s constructive approach to engaging with Ofcom, its willingness to make improvements to the design and operation of its service to directly address our concerns, and our desire to work productively with providers where possible to drive rapid improvements that increase the safety of UK users, we have decided to close this period of compliance remediation with Mega and take no further action at this time.
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"This week a massive new data breach has been revealed that should put the nail in the coffin for the idea that any sort of age or identity verification could be safe. 153 million scans of drivers licenses easily available based on this breach, with more being added all the time. Literally on the day it was revealed, it added another 400,000 records to its available database."
#Politics #Privacy #DataProtection #AgeVerification #OnlineSafetyAct
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"This week a massive new data breach has been revealed that should put the nail in the coffin for the idea that any sort of age or identity verification could be safe. 153 million scans of drivers licenses easily available based on this breach, with more being added all the time. Literally on the day it was revealed, it added another 400,000 records to its available database."
#Politics #Privacy #DataProtection #AgeVerification #OnlineSafetyAct
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"This week a massive new data breach has been revealed that should put the nail in the coffin for the idea that any sort of age or identity verification could be safe. 153 million scans of drivers licenses easily available based on this breach, with more being added all the time. Literally on the day it was revealed, it added another 400,000 records to its available database."
#Politics #Privacy #DataProtection #AgeVerification #OnlineSafetyAct
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"This week a massive new data breach has been revealed that should put the nail in the coffin for the idea that any sort of age or identity verification could be safe. 153 million scans of drivers licenses easily available based on this breach, with more being added all the time. Literally on the day it was revealed, it added another 400,000 records to its available database."
#Politics #Privacy #DataProtection #AgeVerification #OnlineSafetyAct
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"This week a massive new data breach has been revealed that should put the nail in the coffin for the idea that any sort of age or identity verification could be safe. 153 million scans of drivers licenses easily available based on this breach, with more being added all the time. Literally on the day it was revealed, it added another 400,000 records to its available database."
#Politics #Privacy #DataProtection #AgeVerification #OnlineSafetyAct
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OSA has destroyed countless well-run small independent forums and gathering spaces, had zero effect on the most flagrant abuse (which it was sold as fixing).. and now a survey of kids says it made absolutely no difference.
Gee, who could possibly have predicted this?
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OSA has destroyed countless well-run small independent forums and gathering spaces, had zero effect on the most flagrant abuse (which it was sold as fixing).. and now a survey of kids says it made absolutely no difference.
Gee, who could possibly have predicted this?
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OSA has destroyed countless well-run small independent forums and gathering spaces, had zero effect on the most flagrant abuse (which it was sold as fixing).. and now a survey of kids says it made absolutely no difference.
Gee, who could possibly have predicted this?
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OSA has destroyed countless well-run small independent forums and gathering spaces, had zero effect on the most flagrant abuse (which it was sold as fixing).. and now a survey of kids says it made absolutely no difference.
Gee, who could possibly have predicted this?
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OSA has destroyed countless well-run small independent forums and gathering spaces, had zero effect on the most flagrant abuse (which it was sold as fixing).. and now a survey of kids says it made absolutely no difference.
Gee, who could possibly have predicted this?
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UK's Online Safety Act Fails to Curb Harmful Online Content for Children
Children have bluntly told the Children's Commissioner that the UK's Online Safety Act has failed to make a tangible impact on their online lives, with many saying it has made "absolutely no difference" to their exposure to harmful content. Despite being in effect for over a year, the law seems to be falling…
#OnlineSafetyAct #ChildProtection #UkLegislation #SocialMediaRegulation #EmergingThreats
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# [Ofcom's] approach to online safety supervision and compliance
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Uhm.. this is a new one on me - I'm in the UK
saw a game trailer and went to itch.io - successfully downloaded game but when I tried to access Author page ...
"We're sorry — this content is not available in your region.
Due to regulatory requirements established by the United Kingdom’s communications regulator (Ofcom), this page has been restricted from access within the UK due to the Online Safety Act. "
WHAT THE SHIT ?. I AM A GODDAM ADULT. ! FFS
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Bitch, I started playing World of Warcraft more than 18 years ago. Fuck you. #ageverification #OnlineSafetyAct
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This week's net.wars, "Journeys through online harms", sees X.AI file suit against Minnesota's law banning nudification technology while reading books by Geertrui Mierke De Ketelaere, Adele Zeynep Walton, and Beeban Kidron: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2026/07/31/journeys-through-online-harms/ #NetWars #books #OnlineSafetyAct
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Ofcom’s quest to censor the world | spiked
[Ofcom] wants, it seems, pre-emptive powers to block access to sites operating anywhere in the world, should they be deemed harmful to people in the UK. This is authoritarian nonsense on any number of levels … an unelected agency is spending its time digging around the internet looking for material it would like to stop us seeing … [T]he issue here is material that’s harmful to children and sites such as suicide forums. But it is a racing certainty that any such powers, if given, will be invoked to go well beyond suicide forums.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/07/29/ofcoms-quest-to-censor-the-world/
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📬 TikTok illegaler Handel: Wird die Videoplattform zum neuen Darknet?
#DarkCommerce #Internet #Cybercrime #Drogenhandel #Falschgeld #illegalerHandel #Jugendschutz #Ofcom #OnlineSafetyAct #socialMedia #Telegram #TikTok https://sc.tarnkappe.info/e6f828 -
Hopefully @openrightsgroup will be submitting evidence? @JamesBaker #OnlineSafetyAct
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So... after almost a decade of failure in the online regulation space, perhaps some legislative navel gazing is finally about to take place...
I encourage every single person negatively affected by the #OnlineSafetyAct to submit evidence here:
If your freedom of expression, security or privacy has been curtailed in any way, however minor, submit evidence.
That includes people who have been forced to submit data to unregulated third party age verification processors.
That includes people who have had to remove content from their blog or website for fear of censorship and legal harassment by Ofcom - an unelected quango.
That includes people who have felt that their speech or artistic expression has been limited.
I will be submitting evidence as a website/service operator.
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Ofcom drops legal action against suicide forum linked to death of over 160 Brits
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Still waiting for #DoubleDownNews to respond to my suggestion they report on #OpenSource and decentralised #SocialMedia alternatives, as well as discussing the surveillance that comes with the #OnlineSafetyAct.
They say paid members can suggest topics for them to discuss, and all paid tiers are equal.
But perhaps some tiers are more equal than others.
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How It Started in 2018 / How It’s Going in 2026: UK Labour Government to discover “Timezones” in 3… 2…
Oh dear.
See also:
#feed #keirStarmer #onlineSafetyAct #socialMediaBan #timezones -
The UK’s New Under-16 Social Media Ban Will Cause More Harm Than It Prevents
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Le Royaume-Uni ne place pas Wikipédia dans la catégorie 1, les plateformes sur-régulées, mais pour pas perdre la face, signale que l'encyclopédie est sur une liste de surveillance. La Fondation Wikimedia répond en gros qu'elle fait de même pour le Royaume-Unis https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2026/07/10/wikimedia-foundation-challenges-uk-online-safety-act-regulations/
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#Wikipedia just dodged a bullet in the UK but is still in danger.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2026-07-13/Special_reportThe bullet was the possibility of Category 1 classification under the UK Online Safety Act. It was spared that classification but remains on a "watch list" of platforms that "could become Category 1 at any point in the future."
If Wikipedia is later classified as Category 1, then either (1) contributors could no longer be pseudonymous or (2) Wikipedia would be subject to severe penalties under UK law.
How severe? The maximum penalty could include a fine up to £18 million, a UK-wide denial of access, and personal criminal liability for senior managers.
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@rejectpetitions The #OnlineSafetyAct petition "debate" was the worst. Started off with one of the chairs openly admitting that he was a "technophobe". Great. Moved on to literally everybody in the room pushing for even more draconian speech-curtailing measures to be added to the act. Culminated in an MP standing up and effectively complaining that people say mean things about her on the Internet and the act should be extended to stop that from happening... Beggars belief really.
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CW: EU politics & surveillance
The EU Commission are constructing a 4 lane highway to hell with their good intentions.
https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/116561792802802294
#EU #OnlineSafetyAct #surveillance #capitalism #algorithms #mentalhealth #children #kneejerk #unintendedconsequences #profit
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So basically the best way to attack the online safety act is to hit where it hurts the most (their wallets) #uk #goverment #OnlineSafetyAct #ukpolitics #money
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#DystopianTimes - The collective West decided to #censor the entire internet instead of not doing #genocide
Ricky Hale and @cemedia
Jul 30, 2025Excerpt: "Since the #OnlineSafetyAct came into effect, we've seen an awful lot of political censorship and nothing in the way of saving children. Children's lives have not been improved by this bill, but all of us have seen loss of privacy and loss of information we should be allowed to access in a #FreeSociety.
"There is a petition on the Parliament UK website to repeal the Online Safety Act that I have attempted to sign three times. I still have not received the verification email, meaning my signature has not been counted. I suspect this is deliberate and that many more than the official 427,000 people have attempted to sign.
"The government has already responded to the petition by dismissing everyone's concerns and refusing to debate this in parliament. The whole point of parliamentary petitions is to trigger parliamentary debates, but the government is no longer pretending to listen to what we want.
"The level of #overreach in the Online Safety Act is off the chart. Section 179 bans people from saying something false that could cause 'non-trivial psychological harm', potentially banning #humour and #satire. It could also ban any speech that counters a government narrative and is therefore deemed false.
"If your government decides there is no genocide and you say there is, there is nothing stopping them deeming this misinformation and banning you.
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"The #MinistryOfTruth now gets to decide which online content is factual or harmful and that will always be a political decision. There is no impartial way of doing this, and aside from anything else, people in a free society are allowed to say what they want. No one needs to be protected from speech."
https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/no-government-has-the-right-to-censor
#Censorship #GazaGenocide #GazaHumanitarianCrisis #Orwellian #DoublePlusUngood #EndlessWar #PalestineAction #UKPol #Fascism #CharacteristicsOfFascism
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Wbito kolejny gwóźdź do trumny wolności brytyjskiego internetu. Od dzisiaj ustawa "Online Safety Act" wprowadza nowe upierdliwe wymagania na dostawców usług. Za niedopełnienie obowiązków grozi maksymalnie kara w wysokości "jedynie" 18 milionów funtów.
Niech nas latający potwór spagetti chroni od takich pomysłów w Polsce.
źródło: https://www.neowin.net/news/uk-starts-enforcing-the-online-safety-act-from-today/
#onlinesafetyact #internet #wolnosc #wolnoscinternetu #kontrola #kontrolainternetu #wielkabrytania #uk
