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Denmark to remove Copenhagen's ‘ugly and pornographic’ mermaid statue A large statue of a mermaid in Denmark is set to be removed after critics branded it “ugly and pornographic” and a “man’s hot dream of what a woman should look like.”

Hot take: Removing this statue is deeply misogynistic and inherently harmful to body diversity.

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The youth do not want age verification, at all

My subreddit feed has been full of people say stuff like this, both in the teenagers subreddits (I don’t know why YouTube keeps pushing those subreddits to me, I’m in my late 20s) and also the YouTube subreddit!

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I didn’t even know this was a thing, but it did make me find out that there is something called “SuperGrok” which just sounds pretty sad…

Stop smoking subreddit being age gated the same day I saw an ad on a back of a bus advertising people to stop smoking.

Ironically, this won’t effect shady websites that already have issues with payment processing (or nothing to process) so I guess they messed up there.

Not just in non compliance, only two are based in the US.

Florida likely has no legal jurisdiction, hence why they haven’t done anything when it comes to the warning letters. They likely know this.

The enforceability here seems extremely limited, Florida here doesn’t have international reach…

This is before the case of a data breach/crime related to age verification as well.

Once that crime happens, MPs better have some pretty good statements written up…

That’s a shame.

I would imagine however that a lot of websites will likely start to block the UK, especially if Ofcom starts to be annoying.

Age Verification is to unethical, unnecessary and dangerous to justify in any capacity.

It can and will result in people being tricked, scammed and spied upon. It’s a magnet for image based sexual abuse and shouldn’t be ethical in any capacity, let alone for adult websites.

Why are you being creepy over this?

Regardless, I am sure we both agree that it’s not the right place for any government to decide what two people are doing when it comes to sexual content. No matter what is being done, where and for who.

Who cares what other people do in their sex lives, it’s not the goverment or some unelected, creepy official to decide.

Why would anybody report any crime related to porn, adult content or age verification when this kind of deeply misogynistic rhetoric is being pushed by the government and MPs?

Gabby Bertin will have blood on her hands, mark my words.

Unfortunately, they didn’t think about it from day one because they were told a whole load of lies by age verification companies. The same companies that claimed that you cannot bypass age verification using photos or with video games.

I’m not surprised by this.

We have a duty of care to speak out against the Online Safety Act We are the party of civil liberties – that is what, we would argue, should be an uncontested fact. From the Snoopers Charter to campaigning for equal rights for minority communities, it is the raison ...

Liberal Reform have condemned the Online Safety Act for its threat to privacy and free exchange of information for millions of people.

The pressure is on @libdems.org.uk to oppose this "poorly drafted legislation".

Will they stand up for civil liberties?

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Pretty much all porn is banned in China.

The age verification implementation has been so bad (people were bypassing it with photos of Peter Kyle…) that I don’t think a VPN was even entirely necessary.

All of the websites I have seen that have been listed - by Ofcom I should add - seem like websites that wouldn’t abide by the bill anyway.

Aside from blocking them, I don’t know what Ofcom could do, they aren’t UK based (aside far as I know) and can’t be blocked from payment processors.

UK Users Need to Post Selfie or Photo ID to View Reddit's r/IsraelCrimes, r/UkraineWarFootage “If visibility of r/IsraelCrimes is being restricted under the Online Safety Act, it’s only because the state fears accountability,” moderators say.

Age verification is creating an information desert.

The Online Safety Act sets every UK user to child as default.

Teenagers? Blocked. Adults? Content denied unless we do age checks with unregulated companies.

It's not just porn! News is being scrubbed from view ⛔

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Spotify users could lose their accounts because of new rule Age verification checks come amid sweeping changes across the web

I'm your (not so) private dancer.

The Online Safety Act gets even sillier.

Spotify users must now compromise their privacy to verify their age, which could end up in them having their accounts deactivated 🤯

Bad law makes for bad, incoherent outcomes.

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Tell your MP: The Online Safety Act isn’t working What's the problem? The Online Safety Act has been a disaster. Rather than protect children, millions of adults are facing widespread censorship, and teenagers are having their freedom of expression r...

With over 420k people signing a petition to repeal the Online Safety Act, it’s clear that MPs need to fix this mess!

Rather than protect children, millions of adults are facing widespread censorship and threats to their privacy.

Write to your MP now ⬇️

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Given how one of the biggest 18+ games is going to be coming out next year, it’s going to not be surprising when countless 13 year olds ask their parents for an 18+ account to watch videos on it…

Knew this was coming, going to be interesting to see how this will work with websites and creators based outside of NC…

It’s also likely not going to work, since sites that contain gore or people dying will probably not be verifying ages anyway. I know several websites that have fights, people dying, shock videos etc and I doubt any of them will verify their users. It will be the death of their service.

Now we know that age verification companies likely lied to parliament and MPs (they said that their systems cannot be bypassed by images, yet they clearly can) and we are likely a few weeks away from the first major breach.

It’s just a bad and ill thought out bill.

The issues with the bill are far to many to list, but the age verification aspect on its own is the most dangerous. Aside from people bypassing it, the vague category and the risks to women and girls should have been enough to force the government to scrap it.

The bill can and should have been made better, there was countless chances for the government and MPs to engage with groups like the Open Rights Group and Big Brother Watch to ensure it’s not a bad bill.

But they didn’t, they rather listen to the age verification providers association.

But I am not saying that, I am saying that specific age verification legislation (as a whole) is a bad. The OSA is a flawed bill, which was not created to serve the people but the interests of the age verification lobby, many of whom do not care for privacy or safety.

Yes.

I am also someone who values their privacy online.

I was literally shown photos of world war 1 soldiers who had trench foot in a history lesson in year 8.