Amazes me how the UK Labour Party and Starmer managed to absolutely squander their one opportunity after gaining power for the first time in many years.
this post was submitted on 06 Sep 2025
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What if devices would have a private chip to have the ID, so the website would just request if user is underage or not. Would this be private? Instead of sending the whole id to the online platform?
Yeah I could see something like that. It would be similar to log in with Google or Apple. They would be a trusted 3rd party that has the responsibility of validating age and they just pass on a pass or fail to the site.
Some kind of anonymous token that says "I'm adult" and smart card on credit cards are kind of that, but they have a unique identifier that identifies you. They're not anonymous which is the only acceptable kind of adult verification. It makes more sense to cordon off all parts of the internet with identity/age verification and consider them destroyed. I'd like to have an IP banlist of all participants in his harebrained scheme, just rip off the bandair immediately rather than have them shit the bed down the line.
Maybe a government run service that reads your unique identifier and provides a simple adult:yes/no to the website. That takes the burden off the sites and keeps personal identification info in a publicly owned system.
But then the gov is informed of your every online move
Maybe the gov is just going to have to go
i find it interesting that some of the most debased, vile, disgusting perverts to ever live are passing laws to force regular, everyday people to dox themselves just so they can see a tig ol gilf bitty.
In the cat and mouse game, sex always wins. Nudity will, uh, find a way.
Remember to always host anonymously.
Share some tips for that?
Depends on the platform surely, couldn't a lemmy instance just ignore the UK? Not block, ignore.
I am sure I saw that smaller platforms are seeing a surge in popularity because they are not doing it while pornhub saw a large drop. How many switched to a VPN and how many use another site?
Even safer might be that image that's been circulating. It states that if you're in the UK, the hosting site is required to verify your age, but they're not required to verify your location. Now, please click on of these buttons indicating whether or not you're in the UK to determine whether age verification must be performed.
(Presumably "I am in the UK" leads to an innocuous website)
I'd prefer: "I'm in the UK and want to be age verified" and "I'm not in the UK and don't want to be age verified."
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If I have to verify myself I simply won't use it, I really don't care, there's nothing so important online that I need to prove my identity to see it. (Banking and shit like that aside of course). Social media? Give me a break I'm already over it before all this ID shit. I hope it all burns to the ground.
Yup, the furthest I'd go is entering a birthdate. Depending on the service, I'm anywhere from 21 to 105 years old.
this. I refuse to make more accounts, and verify personal info. Ive been prepping for the big disconnect from the internet as a result. there will come a time when it just won't be usable
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Absolutely never using any service that requires this. I dont even have any account on those platforms and I never will.
What if the platform you use with your relatives suddenly requires this?
If my relatives want to talk to me, they can pick up the phone.
I will stop using it of course. There is a price to pay for not being affected by this. Its not going to be free.
I personally don't use Instagram already, no need to wait for age verification.
WhatsApp is the one I can't skip yet, but it they force this shit I'm out.
May I suggest using Signal messenger over WhatsApp.
WhatsApp does use the Signal messaging protocol but I don't trust meta not to modify their implementation of it.
Signal is a privacy at all costs foundation.
I suggest to my friends and family, but they don't care. A few will use it, but for groups and such is basically dead
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