BBC confirms ALL websites accessible in the UK will have to implement ID/age verification of every user by July. And websites will have to remove "illegal content" from today. Including criticism of the UK Government. Activists still claim it's not enough and want the UK to exit the Internet. - Kotaku In Action 2

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BBC confirms ALL websites accessible in the UK will have to implement ID/age verification of every user by July. And websites will have to remove "illegal content" from today. Including criticism of the UK Government. Activists still claim it's not enough and want the UK to exit the Internet.

posted 14 days ago by TheOpiner 14 days ago by TheOpiner +126 / -0

https://archive.ph/YIiY9

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.

https://archive.ph/NX0FT

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– yamez 18 points 14 days ago +18 / -0

go for it. Let's see how that works out for y'all

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– MargarineMongoose 25 points 14 days ago +25 / -0

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.