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Posted on 09/01/2025 3:29:38 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Will British-style online age verification for social media sites crash through America’s First Amendment?
As social media companies begin to navigate the patchwork of age verification laws in parts of the United States, people in Great Britain are dealing with the frustrating reality of those diktats.
The Online Safety Act (OSA) requires all websites to ensure that users are over the age of 18. The sites have to use facial recognition, ID scans, digital identity wallets, or bank documents to confirm someone’s identity, instead of the usual box-ticking exercises that Americans check when they visit certain sites.
Kids Online Safety Act … empowers government bureaucrats to determine what is and is not “harmful” for kids.
It’s a little odd considering that Britons aged 16 will be able to vote in the next national election.
Some platforms attempted to comply with OSA to avoid the £18 million penalty ($24.3 million). X defaulted all UK users to sensitive content filter mode until their age could be determined. Google announced it would use a combination of “human review and automated processes” to determine harmful content. Reddit hired the company Persona for age verification through the use of either a selfie or a copy of someone’s government ID.
Other websites, such as Wikipedia, decided to limit access for UK users.
The age verification measures meant people were blocked from viewing Goya’s famous piece Saturn Devouring His Son, information on men’s fashion, a Conservative MP’s speech on rape gangs, gender neutral toilets, King Richard the Lionheart, and — ironically — the OSA itself.
Instead of accepting OSA and the lack of Internet availability, the British fought back. Days after the regulation went into effect, 530,000 UK citizens signed an online petition demanding the law be repealed. Parliament will debate a potential repeal this fall.
The Government has...
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“Imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever. Be easy, Citizen, Parliament will debate whether to allow you to be free sometime this fall, but don’t get your hopes up. It’s for your own good, you know.”
Click here to verify you’re 18+.......... Yeah, otay!
Relax. Once it permits muslims only, these requirements will only exist in guillotine lines.
You can bet your a$$ there are politicians lickin' their lips all over america right this minute contemplating ways to get this done.
Their only objective is obtain power & keep it.
CONTROL it's for the children....
“Kids Online Safety Act … empowers government bureaucrats to determine what is and is not “harmful” for kids.”
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Horse crap.
It’s feds violating BASIC and FUNDIMENTAL Constitutional rights.
They will monitor everything done anywhere by anyone fishing for anything that “offends” any of the protected specie.
What they can not find, they will plant.
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The Federalist and anti-Federalist Papers were published anonymously. This need to identify is against the American tradition.
Sounds like a great way to get a lot of dead cops.
Sounds like a good reason to remove the UK from the internet.
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