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They obviously never used to play Leisure Suit Larry.
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LMAO IT BEGINS
so funny that this message popped up on #youtube about the #ai #ageVerification requirement...on a video about the ai age verification requirement...while I was visiting just to get a screenshot of another video i previously watched about the ai age requirement.
I don't even know what "kid" videos Youtube thinks I watch? Video essays about horror games I guess?????????????
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It's good to know that they're censoring but few entries that you are monitoring.
"Sparsly happening" does not look like a good argument we should be adopting, though. It's mostly used on the censoring side, for appeasement.
There are two fields where this censoring might become harmful, in the very near future:
1) Upcoming #ChatControl – officially to prevent access to infrastructure used by messengers that won't "comply".
2) Upcoming #AgeVerification – officially to prevent access to #VPN servers used to "bypass" it.
Both will produce threats that I would not want to take lightly. Wait-and-see is not my favorite approach here.
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Teens are left in the dark when it comes to getting support or news online.
Adults have to stay in the soft play area unless they scatter their ID or biometrics across the Internet.
The UK Online Safety Act is a shoddy law.
Tell your MP it’s gotta change 
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-your-mp-online-safety-act-isn%E2%80%99t-working
Open Rights GroupTell your MP: The Online Safety Act isn’t workingWhat's the problem? The Online Safety Act has been a disaster. Rather than protect children, millions of adults are facing widespread censorship, and teenagers are having their freedom of expression restricted. Here are some of the key problems with the law: Wrongful Censorship: The law places huge liabilities and threats of jail on platforms if they don't censor the right content. It does little to protect freedom of expression. The results are in. Footage of protest censored on X. Subreddits about stopping smoking, sexual health, and the news age-gated and shadow-banned.
Teens are locked out of parts of the Internet by the age gate that the UK Online Safety Act has imposed 
Don't believe the hype: it goes way beyond the headlines of porn.
From health advice to memes, sites are over-moderating content or completely blocking under 18s to avoid the duties imposed by the Act.
ORG's Sara Chitseko and @JamesBaker explain it all.
Watch now 
https://peertube.openrightsgroup.org/w/hRyeN5WiKz4WcsnMTKMu8x
Pinsent Masons: “Ofcom’s online safety work will be funded by the service providers it regulates. Fees will be calculated based on each provider’s ‘qualifying worldwide revenue’ (QWR)”
https://alecmuffett.com/article/114601
#AgeVerification #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #surveillance #vpn
Dropsafe · Pinsent Masons: “Ofcom’s online safety work will be funded by the service providers it regulates. Fees will be calculated based on each provider’s ‘qualifying worldwide revenue’ (QWR)”
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It Got Worse: UK Pushing to Extend Age Verification to VPNs
As government pushes to ban youth from social media, the UK government is also going after VPNs as well.
https://www.freezenet.ca/it-got-worse-uk-pushing-to-extend-age-verification-to-vpns/
A short explanation for Home Office Minister Jess Phillips re: why attempts to restrict kids to using “teenager” phones will be doomed to failure
https://alecmuffett.com/article/114580
#AgeVerification #HomeOffice #JessPhillips #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #surveillance #vawg
Dropsafe · A short explanation for Home Office Minister Jess Phillips re: why attempts to restrict kids to using “teenager” phones will be doomed to failure
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The Great British Firewall: Age Verification has Failed
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/the-great-british-firewall-age-verification-has-failed/ #ageVerification
Open Rights GroupThe Great British Firewall: Age Verification has FailedFrom Friday 25 July 2025, UK Internet users have had to verify their age to use a range of apps and websites – from social media platforms such as X, Reddit and Bluesky to dating apps like Grindr to porn sites such as Pornhub.
If you're in the UK, I invite you to join Open Rights Group (@openrightsgroup) to fight the good fight for privacy and free speech online against the barrage of government overreach.
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaign/stop-state-censorship-of-online-speech/ #privacy #ageVerification
Open Rights GroupReform the Online Safety ActThe Online Safety Act is restricting freedom of expression in the UK.
I would like to boost the idea of "Leisure Suit Larry"-style #ageVerification. Ask a bunch of questions that only over-18s are likely to know. E.g. "What is the scent of Gwyneth Paltrow's candles"
Just in case it wasn’t obvious the first time around: applying age verification to VPNs to stop children using them, will stop EVERYONE using them & thereby cause unpopular chaos, @peterkyle @ChildrensComm
https://alecmuffett.com/article/114562
#AgeVerification #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #PeterKyle #RachelDeSouza #censorship #surveillance #vpn
Dropsafe · Just in case it wasn’t obvious the first time around: applying age verification to VPNs to stop children using them, will stop EVERYONE using them & thereby cause unpopular chaos, @peterkyle @ChildrensComm
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The OSA is a poorly worded and implemented act, but of course it has only taken a short while for lots of ways to get round it...
#osa #boost #ageverification
Privacy‑Preserving #AgeVerification Falls Apart On Contact With Reality - https://www.techdirt.com/2025/08/19/privacy%e2%80%91preserving-age-verification-falls-apart-on-contact-with-reality/ "It adds identity friction to lawful speech, supercharges data linkage, and hands governments and intermediaries a revocation switch. That’s not child protection; it’s infrastructure for control."
Techdirt · Privacy‑Preserving Age Verification Falls Apart On Contact With RealityHere we go again. Whenever policy makers insist that there’s some “nerd harder” solution to tricky societal problems, actual experts have to spend a ridiculous amount of time explaining basic reali…
Now they want to age verify the VPNs! The theatre of the absurd!
BBC NewsStop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers toldThe children's commissioner for England tells the BBC virtual private networks are a "loophole that needs closing.
British Online Safety is an irregular verb | Conjugate the verb after me… | Chris Stokel-Walker on Bluesky
https://alecmuffett.com/article/114560
#AgeVerification #ChrisStokelwalker #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #surveillance #vpn
"If you've read about the sudden appearance of age verification across the internet in the UK and thought it would never happen in the U.S., take note: many politicians want the same or even more strict laws. As of July 1st, South Dakota and Wyoming enacted laws requiring any website that hosts any sexual content to implement age verification measures. These laws would potentially capture a broad range of non-pornographic content, including classic literature and art, and expose a wide range of platforms, of all sizes, to civil or criminal liability for not using age verification on every user. That includes social media networks like X, Reddit, and Discord; online retailers like Amazon and Barnes & Noble; and streaming platforms like Netflix and Rumble—essentially, any site that allows user-generated or published content without gatekeeping access based on age"
Electronic Frontier Foundation · From Book Bans to Internet Bans: Wyoming Lets Parents Control the Whole State’s Access to The InternetIf you've read about the sudden appearance of age verification across the internet in the UK and thought it would never happen in the U.S., take note: many politicians want the same or even more strict laws. As of July 1st, South Dakota and Wyoming enacted laws requiring any website that hosts any...
Safe kids or privacy?!
That line shuts mouths. It turns every room into a suspect.
I think of a kid who needs a 2 a.m. chat. A friend planning a way out. Someone healing at their own pace. They need doors that close.
Blanket checks are not care. A net at the door teaches silence.
We can protect kids without tearing the doors off the hinges.
Care and privacy come together.
Privacy is a human right 
#Pewdipie should also make a video about online #privacy I guess that would also get a little more attention to this issue… #ageverification fight on #e2ee
From Book Bans to Internet Bans: #Wyoming Lets Parents Control the Whole State’s Access to The Internet
Electronic Frontier Foundation · From Book Bans to Internet Bans: Wyoming Lets Parents Control the Whole State’s Access to The InternetIf you've read about the sudden appearance of age verification across the internet in the UK and thought it would never happen in the U.S., take note: many politicians want the same or even more strict laws. As of July 1st, South Dakota and Wyoming enacted laws requiring any website that hosts any...