#ukonlinesafetyact — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #ukonlinesafetyact, aggregated by home.social.
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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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To my friends in the UK! This week @StopKillingGames signed a joint statement with Mozilla, EFF, Open Rights Group, Tor Project, Proton, Big Brother Watch, Internet Society and others about the risks of current UK internet safety policy. With regards to gaming the Online Safety Act introduces age gates to online games and the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Act will introduce powers to set curfews on online games #ukonlinesafetyact #ukinternetrestrictions
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Apple rolls out age verification in the UK
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Apparently us special UK people are going to get an extra treat…
Apple will ship built-in 18+ age verification for UK users in iOS 26.4 in the coming weeks. There appears to be no way to ignore it… 😔
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Das #Internet wird immer mehr kontrolliert. #UKOnlineSafetyAct, #Australien will mit #Backdoors an verschlüsselte Nachrichten, #USA führt den den #ScreenAct und #KidsSafetyAct ein. Kontrolle Und die #EU will die #Chatkontrolle. Dystopisch!
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So, I've had a thought and I'd like anyone who actually knows about this sort of thing to tell me if this idea has legs or not.
At some point I'm guessing that I'm going to have to identify myself to my laptop as an adult.
The way I see it is that this does not mean that I have to identify myself as a specific adult, just that I am an adult.
There is no way that I'm giving some random self assigned verification company anything important.
So, my thought is that is there anything that I could, for example, stick on my skin that can approximate my age? I'm sure that there are all sorts of biometric measurements it could use to give a fairly good approximation.
All of the issues like connectivity and security I'm sure could be addressed if the principle is good.
Thoughts?
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The more corporations and the dirty politicians hiding cozily in their pockets try to centralize and control the Internet, the more the rest of us must push back by creating a free and decentralized Internet.
#UKOnlineSafetyAct #CorporateGreed #Decentralization #FreeInternet
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After ruining Xbox and getting involved in the Gaza genocide, Microsoft wasn't quite done with completely destroying its credibility. 🤷♂️
#UKOnlineSafetyAct #Microsoft #GazaStrip #GazaGenocide #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Cloud #Gaming #VideoGames #Xbox #Gamepass
https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/07/28/xbox-age-verification-uk/
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how would we use the web itself if anything you posted on your own blog could subject you to legal repercussions from a town with 10 people you never heard of in another country, just because somebody there could browse to it? "free speech" would be limited to wealthy people with legal teams.
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If you run an online service, why do you have to follow laws in other jurisdictions to prevent people from those jurisdictions from accessing your service?
Their government should only be able to regulate the people and businesses of their jurisdiction. Their government should have to try to force their local ISPs to prevent access to whatever "bad content" is now deemed illegal to access.
You know, like other dictatorships.
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Good write-up of the #ukonlinesafetyact fallacy by Kate Sim (COSPR):
"The real and perhaps only winners of the Online Safety Act are not children, but tech companies."
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“Britain’s MPs charge VPNs to expenses as minister urges caution”
They NEED to see the porn though so they can judge it as being bad for the rest of us plebs.
All perfectly normal.
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Great comment on reddit:
“Love how we're simultaneously being told 16 year olds are mature enough to vote, but not mature enough to hear naughty words on Spotify”#OSA #UKOnlineSafetyAct #politics #voting #Censorship #ukpolitics
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Microsoft To Expand Xbox Age Verification Beyond UK #cybersecurity #gaming #microsoft #ukonlinesafetyact #xbox
https://www.lowyat.net/2025/361044/microsoft-expand-xbox-age-verification-beyond-uk/
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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 -
People In The UK Now Need To Provide Age Verifying Selfie In Order To Watch Porn #cybersecurity #porn #ukonlinesafetyact
https://www.lowyat.net/2025/360894/uk-age-verifying-selfie-porn/
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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.
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UK Online Safety Act comes into force today
#HackerNews #UKOnlineSafetyAct #OnlineSafety #DigitalRegulation #InternetSafety #UKTechNews