And from the summer all sites must have robust age verification systems to prevent children accessing a range of content.
Being "safe for kids" is no longer an exemption and it was never just for "adult content".
ETA: First known casualty of the new law, browser based MMO Urban Dead closed on the 14th citing the Online Safety Act's requirements for moderation unviable and unworkable.
I have a US based web site, and I wont be doing that. The UK fascists can get bent.
They have made their decision, now let them enforce it.
yes...it's the fascists that do this
Fucking normies
Worst case scenario, block all UK IPs. They can fuck off.
Put in a bit of geoIP logic that puts up an info box pointing to the Reform UK website.
Of course it is not just "adult content", the same as not allowing cash transactions is not about fraud. Globalism is moving forward as predicted.
We may be happy that we're seeing pushback and think the pendulum will swing back but the truth is that all resistance is futile, in the end immigration assures leftist long term rule, at least in Europe. In US I have hope.
Which will also put them in direct conflict with US websites, a key one under the control of Elon Musk.
I KNOW they are dumb enough to implement it even though the train is heading straight for them, my only question is whether they blink and cuck out to avoid getting beaten by the 'tech bros' who sided with a tarrif happy Trump or if they are about to get more beaten than in a lesbian relationship.
Sit back with popcorn and enjoy the show, I guess. If UK peeps think US sites blocking them because of GDPR is annoying, wait until this rolls out.
We still haven't figured out the consequence that websites accessible in the UK will also legally have to ban VPN users to prevent any UK citizen from bypassing the verification.
They could just say they don't know if it's a VPN user from the UK because how would they know.
"If in doubt, block them".
I suspect if it's suspected VPN users are bypassing age verification, the tech firm will be investigated by Ofcom and fined if they allow anyone to bypass age verification.
Elon cucked for Brazil, so I don't have any hope on that front.
go for it. Let's see how that works out for y'all
I fear it could play out with other places accommodating them and using it as an excuse to implement that shit for everyone else. This is the thin end of the wedge. Oh let's all point and laugh at the UK for implementing something dumb...and then wonder why it's suddenly getting implemented for the rest of us. This is the sort of shit that politicians should be deathly afraid of even proposing, much less implementing.
I'm sure it'll easily follow suit in the EU after, but I think it can also be the wedge that divides us from them harder and helps detangle that codependency with them that drags us down.
That's probably too optimistic though, because it would require a Trump level president for the next election or two to make sure we don't cuck out before they implode.
Many such cases, unfortunately
Probably the usual EU and Canada fags
You think it could blow up in their faces?
I don't know if only that first proposed step would cause enough of a problem for Keir Stamer, but I think if they just flat out ban the internet in favor of having everyone be stuck on legacy TV and streaming services, then there would be so many people upset that I think it would result in backlash.
Bear in mind the BBC would love a national Intranet and subsequently is biased toward that outcome. As it would restore them as the primary media outlet in the UK without American competition.
Someone in Chyna who just wants to view the BBC page will have break out of his own network and break into the uks
I don't know. The Brits really haven't done anything about rape gangs. They'll probably just die with a whimper.
Keir doesn't care, he's just another puppet in a long line of puppets following a script. If things get "bad" enough for him theyll just install someone else no one voted for like they did with Sunak replacing Truss. Or they'll hold another election to give the other party a chance (who'll implement the same agenda no one voted for) to give the people the illusion of change
A backlash in the UK doesn't matter. The Government will simply arrest anyone who so much as posts a snarky meme about it.
Obviously what they really want is every single packet tagged with your identity by your ISP so that the "age verification" will be transparent. They are simply making it super fucking annoying and manual first to make people demand the solution they ultimately wanted all along.
They've got a damned cheek hiding this:
In amongst a larger article about some dude drunkenly jumping out of his 29th floor Jomtien Airbnb or a man in Staffy getting attacked by two dogs. Start punishing the kids and you'll get better adults from it all.
What's next, banning filming on phones and only accessing the Internet once you've done your national service for the military?
For queen and country James? No, for the boobies
A favorite line from Goldeneye.
You see, THIS is exactly why people like myself are so against the laws that many red states have passed that requires ID to enter porn sites. It's the porn sites today, it's X and Facebook tomorrow, and it's every other site the day after.
It's the problem with censorship in general
So they're going full China mode. Businesses won't have a way to do this, definitely not smaller businesses or people even unaware of the law. They're basically going to be cut off from the world.
I think that is the intent. A plea to spare smaller firms from the act went on deaf ears and while I can't verify it, several websites have already closed.
An internet free of retarded britbong opinions. I truly am tired of winning.
They should leave the internet
And face the reality of unlimited immigration?
Remember remember the 5th of November...
Are we going to see as much outrage from Pornhub over this as they did about Texas and just ban all of the UK from their services or are they going to ignore this because it doesn't fit their narrative.
I think all the adult websites blocking the UK and VPN users is what the UK Government wants. It allows them to ban it by proxy without having to get their hands dirty.
Wait, that was still going? Holy shit I played the hell out of that 15 years ago. Thought it petered out when most of the userbase moved over to Nexus War. Gonna GRAB MANBAGZ in memory...
It was, a bunch of people came back for the last days too. Really sad to have a game I played for almost 20 years disappear because of politics. The wiki is still around, but has been made read-only.
Read the article, it's stereotypical moral panic article about a liveleak/bestgore clone.
Unless the site has legitimate advertisers rather than being a mere spam site that exists to profiteer off malvertising, this will be an excuse for more censorship.
As for moderation, sites like this should be banning ban cunts who disrespect innocent people.
That's the issue, the site made people notice one too many patterns
Funny the BBC and Ofcom breach their own regs with stupid articles like this. Send over AR-18s or whatever Ukraine's getting for St Patricks day.
The BBC is exempt from the Online Safety Act. No joke.
The BBC and television have their own separate standards which they're meant to follow. That's why ofcom were fucking about with GBNews.
I do not consider the british government to be a legitimate government. Therefore, I shall treat all their demands with the same derision given to the whining demands of the islamic state, germany, al-shabab and boko haram.
Wrong side won ww2 i guess. What western europe is doing to its people is worse than what the nazis did. A slow methodical killing of its own people. Literally destroying one of the most advanced and culturally significant people on earth.
Im pretty sure its some globohomo with a huge "blacked" fetish. They get a hard on seeing this on a large scale. Most likely this lead globohomo got rejected by some hot white girls in his younger days or bullies by chads and is taking it out on them now. To see them degraded, raped, and mass cuckery.
Question is who this person(s) is.
Anyways. Fuck the UK. Ill be pissed if they implement this for all sites everywhere to accomodate this lame shit.
I wonder where the cries of "NeTwOrK nEuTrAlItY" are now?
Lotta activist allegedly "librul" voices silent on this.
This is going to be a colossal cluster fuck. I just imagine as it's the gov doing it, the first day or two and everything will grind to a halt.
From what I can tell, beside a few sites that can see what's coming, websites are just behaving as normal. Once Ofcom targets a website and publicises it, then you'll see the consequences.
Looking forward to once again tossing the British tea in the bay.
Here's hoping Amazon and Google just IP-ban all of Britain.
truly the north korea of europe
Not yet. They haven't implemented their exit from the Internet and implement a national Intranet. Yet. The child safety activists are lobbying Government to do that.