The above image is all us folk in the UK see when you do, and if we try to use a VPN + incognito, we get this:

403 means forbidden, so the message is disingenuous.

They must have put some effort into block lists for VPN servers. Even if it works for some of us, it’s not worth it.

For more information on this, see this article: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gzxv5gy3qo

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    14 hours ago

    they did this to themselves by failing to do anything about age verification long before the online safety act came in recently

    Good. They shouldn’t. Online age verification is an authoritarian scam.

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      14 hours ago

      What they are being fined for (potentially) is not asking for users’ age during account creation. Not whatever you think (in spite of op being clear)

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      12 hours ago

      You’ve failed to understand the problem entirely… the entire internet asks users to confirm they are above a certain age when creating accounts… and that happened because the USA demanded it. There’s nothing authoritarian about it… it’s a simple ‘Are you over 13yrs of age’ and you tick yes… that was it.

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        12 hours ago

        Funny how it doesn’t seem to be a problem in any other country.