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[-] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 66 points 3 months ago

Working as intended.

Age verification laws aren't about porn and never were. They're about instituting systems by which governments can restrict individuals' access to internet content that is not in itself illegal, and that they just don't want people to be able to see.

[-] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 45 points 3 months ago

So glad labour and kid starver could take enough time to do that while working hard to appear on both sides of Israels genocide, and stripping welfare from the British people

[-] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago

I can't believe you'd forgotten that Starmer is getting ninja swords banned. As a 19th century Japanese peasant, this is something that affects me and my family very personally.

[-] Blockocheese@hexbear.net 40 points 3 months ago
[-] CrawlMarks@hexbear.net 29 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It is my understanding these laws are largely ineffective at stated goals but do allow them to threaten advertisers and payment processors. Basically just a wedge to disrupt the entire backend of thr web 2.0 world and give them effective censorship controll over everything. Like how you can't share LGBT memes on tiktok because it might open an advertisers to some liability somewhere type stuff. But the UK has am even more draconian system already with their obscenity framework too

[-] NotJohnSmith@feddit.uk 10 points 3 months ago

Not saying it's a good thing but I'm sure that's what I've been getting for ages when trying to click into a Ukraine war report post, it makes me try to prove I'm 18.

Naturally as I intentionally don't have an account on reddit, that's not going to happen

[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

You can bypass that easily by using old.reddit or one of the third party frontends, also has the side effect of making the site much more readable.

[-] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago

Want to add that there's browser extensions that do this for you. It makes life so damn easier, especially as so many Google searches link to a reddit answer.

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