The UK's Online Safety Act age verification requirements have backfired spectacularly, with new data showing users are fleeing regulated platforms for unregulated, less safe alternatives. I break d...
It’s such a stupid system. I did a little research when this was introduced and sure, if I try to go to porn sites then a lot of them will ask for verification. But, I can just go to a search engine and type “hot naked girls”, turn off ‘safe search’ and be rewarded with as more pussy pictures than I can shake my stick at. But, as we all know, this law has nothing to do with protecting kids and everything to do with the UK becoming an authoritarian quasi-facist oligarchy.
It’s such a stupid system. I did a little research when this was introduced and sure, if I try to go to porn sites then a lot of them will ask for verification. But, I can just go to a search engine and type “hot naked girls”, turn off ‘safe search’ and be rewarded with as more pussy pictures than I can shake my stick at. But, as we all know, this law has nothing to do with protecting kids and everything to do with the UK becoming an authoritarian quasi-facist oligarchy.
Similarly, chat control is about staying on top of dissent and stop people organizing. Governments don’t like being caught with their pants down.
“quasi”?