#onlinesafetyact — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #onlinesafetyact, aggregated by home.social.
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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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📬 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 -
☀️ Morning everyone,
With the news on the UK's "Phase 2" of the Online Safety Act rolling out, my focus has shifted heavily. Today's tasks are all about digital resilience and decentralization:
👉 Boosting Alternative Networks: I have to push Solent.Social and the broader Fediverse much harder.
👉 Learn New Systems: Exploring alternative platforms, as the upcoming round of strict ID verification rules will likely lock out or restrict access to mainstream spaces like TikTok and YouTube (So maybe looking at PeerTube and Loops).
👉 Content Redundancy: Pushing further into content creation while simultaneously building digital backups on alternative, self-hosted or federated systems like PeerTube or just uploading it directly to Solent.Social
👉 Alternative Comms: Researching Discord alternatives (hoping Fluxer has finally got its decentralized architecture live).
There is an immense amount of work to do before these highly invasive "safety" systems are fully implemented.
At this stage, bringing friends and family over to safer, independent digital spaces isn't just a preference, It’s a necessity! No one should be subject to this level of blanket surveillance. It treats people as criminals right out the gate and company greed causes them to harvest our personal data even further to train AI Models to replace us. This is all getting ridiculous.
#OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #UKSocialMedia #SocialMediaBan #SocialMediaBanUK #IDVerification #UK #Discord #OnlineSafetyActUK #Surveillance #IDVerify -
Guardian First Edition this morning telling absolute lies about online age verification procedures in the UK.
None of it is robust.
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I'm thinking and planning on advocating for the Fediverse a lot more due to the UK Online Safety Act. I think it might be best to write it all down as a part not only some flyers that I can get printed and hand out to many people.
This will come with a page on my company website to showcase and explain further why & how they can join the Fediverse.
#Fediverse #OnlineSafetyAct #UKGov #UKOnlineSafetyAct #UKVerify #IDVerify -
CW: UK Online Safety Act
From the looks of it, OfCom and UK Government are allowed to look at not only your social media but your Emails, Text Messages & listen in on your private calls.
#OnlineSafetyAct #UKGov #UKOnlineSafetyAct #UKVerify -
Finally Finished the PDF for the UK Online Safety act and why Fandoms like the Thomas The Tank Engine one should join the Fedverse.
Give it a read, love little bits of feedback and feel free to share this just give me credit where you can.
https://www.canva.com/design/DAGuTUqsh_g/i7ZOqH2crDqa9BCkVISncQ/view?utm_content=DAGuTUqsh_g&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=uniquelinks&utlId=h00b725e523
#TTTE #ThomasTheTankEngine #Fandom #Fandoms #OnlineSafetyAct #UKGov #UKOnlineSafetyAct #IDVerify #Fediverse #SelfHosting -
Making Bracelets are now illegal in the UK
Website: https://kandipatterns.com/
#UKGov #OnlineSafetyAct #UKOnlineSafetyAct #UKVerify #IDVerify -
With the UK Government cracking down on things, I really do want to just leave the few socials I do use for Personal use (not this), it all just needs verification and I've been using them for years.
#UKGov #OnlineSafetyAct #UKOnlineSafetyAct -
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