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I highlighted the VPN part so that everyone knows to not use them (lemmings.world)

submitted 4 days ago by rikudou to c/maliciouscompliance@lemmy.world

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[–] tyler@programming.dev 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Not who you’re responding to but techlinked called out that it’s illegal as well and showed the legislation text in their video. But if you’re not implementing the ID check in the first place then mentioning vpns doesn’t matter at all. I can’t even get your link to load.

Edit: timestamp 1:50 https://youtu.be/uGJHzPHOFXM

[–] rikudou 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I don't believe guidelines are above the actual law.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1k81lj8nvpo

According to Ofcom, platforms must not host, share or permit content encouraging use of VPNs to get around age checks.

The government told the BBC under the Online Safety Act, it will be illegal for platforms to do this.

Ofcom is the regulator so I’m guessing they read the law a little more closely than you. And BBC states that the government explicitly told them it would be illegal.

[–] rikudou 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah, that would be the first time enforcement didn't really bother to read the law they should be enforcing.

So they might add it later when stuff like this becomes more common, but right now it's not illegal, according to the law and disregarding everything else that doesn't really have any legal hold and is really just a guideline.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 2 points 4 days ago

You didn’t read the second sentence of that quote.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 3 points 4 days ago

Simple defense: "I wasn't encouraging anything, I was just informing them."

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Reddit is super-screwed then because its full of users doing exactly that anywhere this topic comes up.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I very much doubt it has anything to do with being a citizen. The law would apply to the company making the statements itself.

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 4 points 4 days ago

"platforms must not host, share or permit content encouraging use of VPNs to get around age checks."

I'll also note that this doesn't seem to even be in the official documentation.