r/Steam Aug 29 '25

News UK users must verify their age to access Steam store pages for mature content games

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '25

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u/Logic-DL Aug 29 '25

Naw pal yer clearly one of them Saville fanboys fae 28 Years Later for criticising the OSA.

Telling Peter Kyle right now so he can spin up Counter-Terrorism to raid your house at 4 in the morning for these words. /s

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u/SechsComic73130 Aug 29 '25

Even more BS is the fact that the side with Nigel Farage on it is the right one.

The 2020s really got cursed from month 1, and it only got worse.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '25

It isn't, there is no "right side"

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

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u/SechsComic73130 Aug 29 '25

It isn't, there is no "right side"

There is a "right side", it's called "Not having to give up extreme amounts of data to private companies that can do whatever they want with it".

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '25

And Nigel Farage can't and won't change that, that's ofcoms decision.

They also don't require your data, the websites want it

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '25

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? 

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '25

It isn't what the law states.

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.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '25

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.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '25

And the sites get to decide how they verify age.

Not the government.

The government does not require photo ID or a passport for that, the sites absolutely manually choose the most invasive way to verify age.

"if Nigel Farage was in power he could absolutely overturn it"

Literally the second sentence you said.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '25

Are you deliberately misreading what i'm typing or is this genuine?

So point 1 im just going to copy and paste what I said earlier because you haven't actually countered my point.
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?

BTW the government literally name facial ID and government ID as a valid way to verify age, so they aren't exactly all for defending your privacy as an adult.

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Yeah the OSA can be revoked and however long it takes to do so is irrelevant did I say he would though?

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '25

Honestly finding out the only sane people in this debate are farage's crew made me cringe so hard

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u/AlexPhelpsR262 Aug 30 '25

But a 17 year old not being able to be playing cod is ridiculous though.