All the unhinged loopholes people are using to get past the Online Safety Act, as Ofcom responds

Dont think there’s anything unhinged about wanting to circumvent giving your ID to third party companies when we live in a time of the richest and most powerful multinationals routinely getting data stolen.

If the best cybersecurity money can buy isnt good enough Im sure as shit not trusting my ID details with a dubious third party

That’s before even getting into the ridiculous overreach and constant erosion of privacy we as a populace have suffered since 9/11 in all the interests of our “safety”.

The problem is that some websites knew people from the UK were going to do this so they decided that it wasn’t worth the risk of having the government then order them to somehow stop people doing this leading to them simply restricting access to the UK

Civitai is one such example where there is no ability to verify your age, they just engaged a blanket ban of anyone from the UK accessing their site and in order to use their site to generate images or download models you need an account and anything you do on that account is added to your history which means if they see a account registered in UK prior to the act still somehow accumulating history they permanently ban the account

And the reason they are doing this is really understandable. The OSA allows the government to levy penalties of 10% of a companies income PER infraction. This means if you have a company the government really don’t like which people are circumventing the law to access then the government can just find 10 infractions, treat them as separate offences and the company has been destroyed overnight

This has been implemented in such a hamfisted way. Lots of spaces that have nothing to do with porn or gore have been caught up in the ban too, and its not like you verify yourself once and that’s it. Each platform will need verification each time, and I presume whenever you clear your cookies too

What happens when hackers breach security and blackmail end users? Despite past mistakes, the government remains oblivious, resulting in the destruction of people’s lives.

It’s annoying to see every headline seemingly agree with this bullshit. Not wanting to fall victim to the first data breach isn’t unhinged

Student newspaper referring to ways people highlight the inadequacy of government overreach as “unhinged” is a new one.

Don’t tell me students are in favour of this?

I used an ID from a Google image search to verify my Reddit. There is an indian fellow I found on YouTube that provided his face for the movement mechanism but that didn’t work.

But honestly can they blame us? They claim that the images are deleted once verified, but the ‘Tea’ app claimed it did too.

What? You mean people are bypassing a lazy policy that blocks information, never mind porn, that wasn’t thought out at all? Shocking I say. /s

It’s almost as if people resent the idea of giving third party companies their sensitive information.

Am I the only one that thinks this is a fucking unhinged thing for the ofcom online safety director to say?

*“Our research shows that these are not people that are out to find porn – it’s being served up to them in their feeds,” Oliver Griffiths, group director for online safety at Ofcom, told The Sun.

“And we think that these measures are going to have a really big impact in terms of dealing with that particular problem.

“There will be teenagers – dedicated teenagers – who want to find their way to porn, in the same way as people find ways to buy alcohol under 18. They will use VPNs. And actually, I think there’s a really important reflection here. It’s not just us, in terms of making life safer online. Parents having a view in terms of whether their kids have got a VPN, and using parental controls and having conversations, feels a really important part of the solution.”*

Yeah, maybe that should have been the conversation and solution instead of bringing in 3rd party’s to hold our information in this way?
“Yeah, people are gonna use VPNs, but parents can be in charge of that”?

They are aware that it’s only the technologically illiterate that will provide their personal information to these third parties to verify. Absolutely wild.

Like what? Is our government being sponsored by nordvpn? Is fucking nobbleberry gonna pop up and I’m gonna find out this has been an elaborate ad?

“Unhinged” or avoiding massive government overreach.

Just playing around with this earlier, there’s loads of pirated porn streaming sites still available and easily accessible, which are presumably lousy with malware and poorly moderated for extreme / illegal content.

So it’s hard to see what could go wrong there.

Yesterday I was unable to watch two consenting adults video… but I was able to watch a man in America getting shot 15 times up close by Police and watch a Russian bloke get thermited and roll around on fire without ID.

Good job guys

The only unhinged thing is this act. Cyber secuity experts have spent decades trying to educate people into not giving your most sensitive data to random online websites. This act actively encourages people to do exactly that. It’s fucking insane.

Ofcom said:

Parents having a view in terms of whether their kids have got a VPN, and using parental controls and having conversations, feels a really important part of the solution.”

That what should have happened in the first place!! Not Legislation (with vague terms) that impacts the entire nation!!!

The easiest thing would be for parents to actually parent their children. UK always a nanny state