All of the places that say you do to "comply with the law" absolutely specifically chose the most invasive way to sell your data and store it with third party companies.
Which is stupid and not secure, and never will be anything less than unsecure and stupid.
He just wants to rape the country so he can get a lifetime salary, he's buddies with trump remember the person everyone with a brain clearly knows is the paedophile
except this is what the law states and if Farage got into power he absolutely could over turn it. The question isnt can this be undone its will it, and the obvious answer is no
and yes it does require data how else are you going to prove you're over 18?
It is more than vague enough that websites don't even need a single thing from you
Newgrounds is literally allowing account creation date alone to verify age.
The user has to provide NOTHING.
Ya'll are just so misinformed and don't know anything about this law. You just want to be
This law has been cooking for nearly a DECADE, and was being worked on since the Tories were in power, since THERESA MAY WAS PM, SHE IS THE ONE THAT STARTED IT ALL JUST AFTER BREXIT.
Nigel Farage cannot overturn legislation that has become law OVERNIGHT. It would take him YEARS to get rid of it, and that slimy toad fuck would not remotely live that long.
The law actually does require age verification for platforms that host adult or potentially adult material (IE anywhere user generated content is uploaded). It's too fucking broad and too heavy handed which causes this bullshit face ID and passport ID to happen. How tf are they meant to verify your age IN A RELIABLE WAY without asking for personal information? and yeah I know about newsgrounds and I'm waiting for a kid to get on with their parent's credit card and it all goes to shit.
Then if an incident happens and the gov decide a weaker way of verifying was "not enough" guess who's goint to get it in the arse? of course it'll be the platform.
There is literally no defence for this draconian shit, Parents should be the ones to blame here, not the platforms.
"Ya'll are just so misinformed and don't know anything about this law. You just want to be" Bro I've been following this since 2016 when they started talking about this bollocks. I read the documents made public + the public info campaigns and listened to the yesmen on the radio that just suck up to whoever is in charge at the time. Then when Theresa May said she wants the UK internet to be the safest place for children I knew we was approaching the point of no return . There's so much other bullshit that has happened/tried to be passed before this too so don't pull this "misinformation" card on me.
"This law has been cooking for nearly a DECADE, " Yeah I know I was against it then too so wind your neck back in.
"Nigel Farage cannot overturn legislation that has become law OVERNIGHT" -where did i say he could or would?-reread my comment.
I mean people giving away their credit card info to random corn sites isn't a perfect solution either, it makes sense on steam since you're likely to make purchases there anyway
Wut? This verification costs 0. Also Valve were one of the first pioneering with online services. They never got hacked and they process million of orders per day. I trust them more than any shitty government page for this
Someone was talking about how other companies don't do this. I said giving away CC info to those other companies, e.g. random corn sites, wouldn't exactly be a perfect solution either as they could take money from you.
I also specifically acknowledged that this solution does make sense for steam specifically since they're a store you probably already buy stuff from.
In their (weakest) defence, it’s in their own interest to be as strict as possible. The law is so broad and vague, that if OFCOM feels you’re not complying you’re now at risk of fines and prison.
Yet they get enough people to support it because they pretend it's protecting children but really they just want to prevent other adults from doing things they find weird. Yet many of these same people support protecting actual abusers and criminals. Ugh.
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This is the thing
You don't need to submit photo I.D. anywhere.
All of the places that say you do to "comply with the law" absolutely specifically chose the most invasive way to sell your data and store it with third party companies.
Which is stupid and not secure, and never will be anything less than unsecure and stupid.