People across the United Kingdom have been faced with a censored and partially inaccessible online landscape since the country introduced its latest digital safety rules on Friday.
The Online Safety Act mandates that web service operators must use « highly effective » age verification measures to stop kids from accessing a wide range of material, on penalty of heavy fines and criminal action against senior managers. It’s primarily focused on pornography and content that promotes suicide, self-harm, or eating disorders, but the scope of « priority content » also includes materials related to bullying, abusive or hateful content, and dangerous st …
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The UK is slogging through an online age-gate apocalypse