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Translation: We realise now that this was a failure because we had no clue what we were doing.

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It's not just pornography where proof of age is now required, one of my carers wanted to buy a Stanley Knife from Amazon.

He wants to know if a VPN would circumvent this, I said maybe not as it's Amazon UK.

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Knives have to have a proof of age on purchase nothing would get round that.

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I had to use my dad's driving licence to buy kitchen knives. Apparently they couldn't find me on the government database :shrug: upon delivery postman pat asked for my date of birth then handed over the parcel.

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First they manage to close all the High St shops and send everyone shopping online.

Then they introduce checks so people can't buy what they need online (especially trades people I imagine)

I presume the next step is to enforce some kind of digital identity card . . oh, wait :rofl:

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Our Government has said that they won't ban VPN's and I think you said that they technically couldn't anyway, but this is what one place in America is doing:


https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-pr...ything-we-know

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Yet more nonsense. People will find a way round it and easily I am sure.

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I suppose that this is an attempt to cut down on knife crime/deaths, which is a good thing really.

It says that Experian can't find him! I had assumed that the fact he was paying by credit card would be enough to prove he was over 18.

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I tried to buy a pair of kitchen scissors about 12 years ago in Morrisons. I was 32 and didn't have ID on me. They refused to sell me them. Even though I clearly looked older than 18.

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That's ridiculous. I'm glad you mentioned this though, as he says it will be easier to go to town for a knife- neither of us considered that they'd want proof of age for an instore purchase for someone clearly over 18.

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One of many many

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What a vile monster, glad he's been caught.

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Instagram & Facebook are now facing fines of up to six percent of their annual worldwide revenue, pending an official ruling related to the handling of illegal content, moderation, and transparency, according to a preliminary decision:

https://www.theverge.com/news/806019...u-dsa-findings

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That’s the EU, nothing to do with U.K. law.

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OK well, firstly the link to supplied specifies EU rules, which the UK isn’t a part of so irrelevant,

But secondly, now hypothetically, Meta (who own Facebook and Instagram) tell the UK government and Courts to ‘jog on’, ‘we’re doing nothing, screw you, nor are we going to play a single penny in fines - do one Of course they are US based companies and I suspect that Donald will have something to say about it. And lean on various governments.

What happens then? Answer, absolutely nothing.