Edit: Click through for the typical BS govt response that’s been added… 🙄
Are you in the UK and opposed to providing ID to use social media in the coming weeks?
There’s an official parliament petition to repeal the Online Safety Act, and it’s already at 13,000 signatures and growing: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/722903
(Not UK? Please spread the word!)
@fehrtrade I am so out of the loop. Is it just meta platforms and shitter? Or is here and Youtube as well?
One of the points of this, is to stop porn sites just having two buttons, I am over 18 and I am under 18 (leave) to stop children looking at pornography. It seems kids are finding and viewing porn at a ypunger age (about 12).
For those of us who remember 'top shelf' we are not just talking about nudity (photos) but this is far more explict, videos and a wider range of content (so this is one of the main issues)
Porn hub et al has either stopped juristictions from accessing the sigte (as in some US states) and some contries, they are complying with age verification in others (e.g UK).
Social media algorithms, can tailor content by age, so by lying about your age, just to get on you end up getting content or contact that is not suitable or harmful, if the platform knows you are 11 it should stop you getting this in your feed, of course some content leads to more clicks, that equals more profit and therefore it gets put in to your feed as to Meta profit is first.
Granted the solution is to talk to your kids, but the bbc coop hack article highlighted the huge number of adults who have no idea what their kids are doing.
