https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-65388255
Bit of a turn up for the books. Turns out, particularly if an amendment passes in the House of Lords, Wikipedia could fall foul of the age verification bill. Turns out it isn't just pornographic websites that will have to implement it. This could affect any website, including Twitter, that allows linking or hosting of NSFW content. Never mind the threat of all the instant messaging apps to block the UK when the law is implemented. Even this website will have to either age verify or block UK residents. And we still have the prospect of residential VPNs being regulated to the point of being pointless and effectively banned.
Unlike the similar EU Digital Services Act, there will be no exception for encyclopedic and educational content.
I can imagine a few people will not shed a tear if Wikipedia is blocked in the UK.
The weirdest thing I experienced in a fully Current-Year-captured law school was the near-universal support for censoring the Internet among the little Gen Z commie faggots. It was so weird because they were all so open about their various fetishes, open about their support for trannies and other Internet autism derivatives, etc etc. How the hell would we have even had tranny shit as a going trend if all sex-related content was censored? How would they have “discovered” that they were all pansexual aromantic non-binary poly queers? I suppose they’d carve out exceptions to the point that only the sort of things straight men enjoy would be censored?