Bluesky, keep your “Age Assurance”, I’m definitely not going to upload my ID, biometrics or anything else to your partner “Kids Web Services”
Would never trust their parent company Epic Games (owned by Disney / Tencent…)
Luckily there are plenty of ways to bypass this: https://gist.github.com/cynion/e92af851c2d2d015c67aaa0170baaeff
Privacy Matters!
This is mainly on the brits, not specifically on Bluesky. They are racing to make the british public the most surveilled, personally identified and fully activity-logged population in the world.
Sure, you could just not implement this, but if you want to earn money in a country, then you will have to conform to the laws there, just as you have to adhere to the GDPR in the EU.
I just use witchsky, plenty of the alternative web clients by pass the age verification.
I am laughing a little bit at you for using bluesky because surely everyone told you this would happen.
the endless cycle: cool new platform is created, everyone moves to it, platform is enshittified, repeat
Man y’all real mad at bluesky when they’re just implementing what the UK government requires them to. They could either restrict service fully, or offer it with the bullshit age verification. They made a reasonable choice in that position.
Be mad at the stupid age verification laws, but blaming Bluesky seems very silly.
No, I absolutely blame BlueSky, because they purport themselves to be different from Big Tech, and they absolutely aren’t, and this is a great example. You can see fedi servers around the world omitting age verification because they’re either not in the UK or don’t make any money.
Or they could refuse to comply with unjust laws, you’re allowed to be mad at people for failing to do that when they have a good opportunity.
What is the punishment for not complying? I know what this law requires, but I don’t know how the UK goes about actually enforcing this kind of regulation.
Here’s an example of another US based company refusing to comply with UK internet law and how that’s going:
Lawyer Myles Jackman, who specialises in sexual liberties and obscenity law, said the case lays bare one of the practical weaknesses of the OSA - that the UK regulator has “no right imposing fines on US domiciled companies that they have no right to collect”.
“The UK government has no jurisdiction over the American Constitution,” he said, adding that Ofcom could decide to issue enforcement proceedings in the US as they have threatened but that they would “seem destined to fail”.
He believes in order to retain “credibility” Ofcom will be left no choice but to block 4chan on UK internet service providers (ISPs), making the site inaccessible to users in the country. But he points out this will be easy to work around for those with VPNs.
Eh companies yell loudly about any minor inconvenience they have to some proposed law or change. Want to raise wages, security or improve working hours? The companies kick and scream about their profits, threaten with closures and more. But when it comes to age verification the majority is awfully quiet if not out right supportive.
What? A corporate owned for-profit company is willing to violate your privacy?!
This is front page news.
You’ll stop using corporate social media now, right?
Just don’t use bluesky.
I liked Aussiezone’s solution. I just put “this is me on lemmy” in my 13 year old reddit acct profile. maths math out.
