Online Safety Bill Etc

[Sirius]

Originally Posted by damien c

No IMGUR does not tell you to use a VPN, none of the sites that have been banned from providing services to us in the UK, have said "Go and get a VPN" because they and anyone with common sense will understand, that it would land them in a world of legal issues.

However anyone with a little, just a smidge of common sense will understand that in order to access a site, that is now blocked due to the perpetually offended and clueless brigade, that they will require a VPN in order to access it, so when they want to pass that information on to others, they will shorten the BS given by the Website because of the perpetually offended and morons to "You cannot access from the UK, you will need to use a VPN".

Also just because something is in "Quotation Marks" does not mean it's a DIRECT QUOTE, quotation marks are used for all sorts of stuff, whether you like that or not, I do not care, I don't sit on the internet all day looking for something to be offended by or jump like I am a member of the Gramma Police, I have a life!

Finally, if you are that anal about someone giving information that is from reading between the lines and not 100% factually what was stated, then I feel sorry for you!

Nail and head come to mind. Well said.

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

websites are prohibited from advising people of this.

No, they are not.

The UK government has warned that online platforms which deliberately target UK children and promote [Virtual Private Network] use could now "face enforcement action"

Simply providing the fact that you would now need a VPN is not "promoting" their use.
If I tell you that a knife can be used to stab someone, I am not promoting the use of knives to stab people.

They are not "deliberately" targeting UK children, plus, on top of all that, its "could", not "will".

[damien c]

Apparently now game developers are being told that certain "features" will need to be removed from games otherwise the games will be banned in the UK.

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/we-bel...ine-safety-act

The following is RUMOURS, I cannot provide proof as the people I spoke to will not provide it, they are not wanting to risk their jobs, personally I think some of it is just "Hey we are going to cause some trouble for the laughs" but some of it I can see actually happening.

Take the following with a large dose of sodium

A developer has said that they have been contacted and told they cannot have player to player communication, cannot have character creation features, player created content or characters that are deemed to be "Attractive" to either men or women, basically each character has to hit each branch of the ugly tree as they fall out of it to hit the ground before being added to the game.

That is to avoid any "Child" from seeing something "Sexual" in a game or reading something "Sexual", also to stop them reading or hearing any words that might be deemed "Hateful or Extreme".

These features will not be allowed apparently in the game at all, regardless of if it is made for 18+ or not because they cannot stop children accessing adults devices (shocker).

Grand Theft Auto 6 apparently from one person I have spoken to who works in the industry, is currently being determined if it will be allowed to be sold in the UK, and has said the UK is now stricter than Australia, Germany and Korea for what is allowed in games.

Adverts for GTA 6 will apparently not be allowed to be shown on UK TV, YouTube, Twitch etc in the UK because the adverts are deemed "Too Sexual and Racist" because they show "Women in bikinis dancing drinking alcohol", whilst also showing "Black people committing crimes".

Gaming News websites will apparently be forbidden from writing about games which use game engines that can provide "Photo Realistic" graphics because "Children".




Don't worry though our lord and saviour his almighty Starmer and her almighy badenoch (if she gets in next), will make changes to the OSA and make it a general safety act covering everything, from online to real world content and make sure that we cannot see anything that the perpetually offended brigade don't like, making us all feel warm and safe, whilst staring a beige wall for entertainment

[OLD BOY]

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.ph...-visitors.html

Here’s the latest casualty. Richard, what have you done?

[EXTRACT]


The popular online image sharing website Imgur.com, which was first founded in 2009 and has been widely used to host viral images, short videos and memes that can be linked to from other sites, appears as if it may have responded to a recent Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) investigation by blocking UK IP (Internet Protocol) addresses.

The last paragraph in the linked article

The key part of the ICO’s investigation seemed to have focused on how Imgur failed to ask visitors to declare their age when setting up an account. We’ve clarified above that this investigation took place under data protection law and not the OSA.

[Carth]

On rare occasions I visit sites that request my age, I simply pick a date sometime between 1970 and 2000.

They've never asked for proof, and if they started to it would be the same fiasco as is currently being laughed at

[nffc]

Originally Posted by Hugh

The last paragraph in the linked article

... but as I understand the OSA, self-declaration of user's ages isn't rigorous enough anyway which is why places are using facial age estimation.


At least they should know their own rules?

I guess we'll have to block UK IPs soon .....

[Carth]

Originally Posted by Paul

I guess we'll have to block UK IPs soon .....

Gosh, what are we going to do with all these new data centers

[damien c]

Originally Posted by Carth

Gosh, what are we going to do with all these new data centers

And the new nGreedia AI Data Centre that is going to bring so much revenue and so many jobs, which are going to be a complete waste of time when they won't be allowed to be used for anything but left wing propaganda.


Sarcasm below

Guess the UK should stop education and just ensure everyone has their little cubicle with the feeding and waste tubes inserted, to ensure they don't go out in public and cause "Alarm & Distress" on the public, then also make sure that they have their "North Korea" styled computer devices installed, which limits what they can do online and watch.

Remember the film Idiocracy (2006), the main "Entertainment" was a man being kicked in the nuts, well let's see how long it is before we are down to that because the perpetually offended ensure that nothing else is allowed!


Sooner I can get out of this country the better, although that would require winning the lottery which I don't play or some kind multi-millionaire or billionaire dropping £300k in my bank

[Taf]

Big site users hacked due to this new law in the UK causing problems abroad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BIGyMG5jc4

I think thats some US ID system, not sure if its related to the UK, but either way, this is exactly why its a terrible idea.

[damien c]

Originally Posted by Taf

Big site users hacked due to this new law in the UK causing problems abroad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BIGyMG5jc4

Nothing to do with Digital ID's but all the click bait youtubers are making it about that.

The system that was breached was a 3rd party company who is/was contracted to do support for Discord, so if you were locked out of your account etc it is likely them that you spoke to as Discord itself does not it would appear have their own support staff for users, only for employed staff.

If you have never had to speak to the end user support team then you are I would say safe, because you won't have received the email, however if you have contacted them, then you are likely getting the email.

Again this has nothing to do with Digital ID's because this has happened previously where Discord and others were breached and information was taken, not one of those times was anything linked to Digital ID's, but now because of the Online Safety Act every click baiter is linking anything they possibly can to it.


I don't want a Digital ID, the Government have enough ways to track my movements, spending etc I don't need them to have a way to block my access to being able to use a bus etc, so I do not agree with the Digital ID system at all, it's a farce and control scheme plain and simple, but people need to stop linking it to everything and anything they can.

I expect next week some headline "Car stolen from air port because the owner did not have a digital id" or some other BS article.

I also do not expect the Government to have the safety up to scratch for where the databases are stored with everyone's details, but let's face it and be real here, what information is someone going to get from a Digital ID that they cannot already get from a Bank, Facebook, HMRC, Companies you have worked at etc etc, 99.9999% of our information is already on the internet, already in the hands of criminals and if you think it's not, then you need to wake up because not least is it in the hands of the Government, the biggest bunch of criminals on the planets!

[Jaymoss]

ADGuard have released a 3GB Per month free VPN works PC Apple and Android

https://adguard-vpn.com/en/blog/why-...m_content=body

[RichardCoulter]

The Government today issued a statement to ITV:

'We know that some children still get around restrictions, which is why we are strengthening education in schools. Our new guidance teaches healthy relationships and helps them understand that online pornography doesn't reflect real life'.

Anyone who uses a VPN should ensure that they check out it's credibility as much as they are able to. This one is using it to empty people's bank accounts!

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/do-you-use...rnight-1748204