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

  • remon@ani.social
    74·
    25 days 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.

    • FishFace@lemmy.world
      83·
      25 days 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)

            • FishFace@lemmy.world
              2·
              23 days ago

              Do you actually care? Because I don’t especially feel like following up a question apparently in defence of some belligerent oaf who doesn’t bother reading. But you’re not the same person so maybe you’re just picking me up and aren’t so interested in their line.

              • ayyy@sh.itjust.works
                1·
                23 days ago

                I don’t understand why a meme posting website should be required to check your ID, and I’m trying to understand why someone thinks it’s a good idea to require such insanity.

                • FishFace@lemmy.world
                  2·
                  23 days ago

                  It’s not about checking id, it’s about asking for a users age at all.

                  And, if there were an unobtrusive, safe way to prevent kids seeing hardcore porn (something which research suggests is probably not good) then it should apply to places uniformly. Calling it a meme website is kinda skirting the issue of whether it has that content. It doesn’t really, but it used to, and it was a meme website the whole while.

                  • ayyy@sh.itjust.works
                    2·
                    23 days ago

                    You’re operating under the assumption that putting an “are you old enough?” checkbox on a website would ever change the behavior of a child. That’s completely unrealistic and disconnected from reality. Perhaps if children need to have a controlled exposure to the internet, it is the parents’ responsibility to foster a safe environment and monitor the child. You know, since that actually does something.

          • remon@ani.social
            26·
            25 days ago

            They don’t have to deal with the taste of British dick in their mouth.

    • Anomnomnomaly@lemmy.org
      42·
      24 days 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.

      • ayyy@sh.itjust.works
        11·
        24 days ago

        No, the entire internet absolutely does not ask that. Perhaps you meant the commercial for-profit internet?