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Do want to point out the UK act is such a unworkable mess that it is likely to collapse under its own weight just look at the last UK age verification law that was delayed over and over again until it was quietly scraped. And it’s likely Ofcom will struggle to get the OSB up and running
Failing to comply with the act’s rules could land companies with fines of up to £18 million (around $22 million), or 10 percent of their global annual turnover (whichever is higher), and their bosses could even face prison.
I’m curious how they intend to enforce this on companies that aren’t located in the UK.
Just wait until the UK turns into a big white blob on the internet due to getting geoblocked by about anyone.
Cyber-Brexit. GG UK.
Is this the one they said you’d need to register with a photo id if you wanted to access porn sites? The one opponents said would do the most good for online safety by teaching the nation to use VPN?
No, its different, you now have to prevent kids from accessing harmful content, so its worse.
The wank tickets one (it was proposed that you could go and get a single use ticket from the post office if you didn’t want to do ID online) was scrapped after it was passed as it was completely unworkable in practice.
Same will happen here, they simply haven’t made the sort of money available to even start to bring this in. This is just more performative bollocks for gullible morons from the party that bought you deportation to Rwanda.
If we have to have an evil government, it’s lucky that they are also quite incompetent.
I actually agree with parts of this law and think they don’t go far enough.
Tech firms should 100% be held responsible for the content they choose to tolerate on their platforms.
CSAM is a growing problem on apps like X and Instagram. The latter has particularly been astroturfed by accounts that post links to Telegram channels for the purpose of sharing highly illegal stuff.
Another thing I think the law needs to do is target game publishers who allow toxic, defamatory and harassing behaviour on their platforms. Companies like Riot Games, Blizzard, etc should be held far more accountable for policing their games, especially since kids play them.
