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Originally Posted by Carth
I highly doubt there are any large (or small) website 'businesses' that have any fear of "Ofcom enforcement"  |
You don't think that the possibility of having their site shut down, huge fines or even imprisonment had any bearing on the decision of websites to either comply with the legislation or voluntarily withdraw from the UK?
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Originally Posted by Chris
More likely the cost of compliance is higher than the revenue from being visible here.  |
Yes, maybe age verification software is expensive??
Re: X/Twitter. There is no prescribed way to verify that someone is over 18 and the way that X have chosen to do this is to check when the account was opened (fair enough) or check the messages sent/received by users. Ofcom say that they are monitoring how well this works very closely.
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Originally Posted by Paul
I'm not. They have successfully turned the UK into a place to avoid, made us into an internet paraiah.
Except of course for those with the knowledge to use a VPN (and of course the younger generation, the ones they pretend they are protecting, are the ones most capable of doing this). Many will already be using VPNs anyway.
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When this possibility was put to Ofcom they said that this legislation wasn't a "silver bullet" and that some children will inevitably get round these changes, but that it is a better situation to where people were just required to click 'yes' when asked if they were over 18.
They have advised parents to check & try to stop children from using a VPN and made it unlawful for platforms to promote/encourage the use of VPN's in order to circumvent the new restrictions.
It's a good idea from the parents POV too, as the VPN set up by their child (likely to be a free one) may well abuse the data that they gain access to from all users of the connection.