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UK users: how do you feel about age verification?by
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| Added: | 4 months, 3 weeks ago |
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| " | What could go wrong? |
| " | If that laws continue forward i just see this is a way to pursue people for just drawing fictional character, if anything happen with RL children, police searching for people, we can be the first to being targeted for looking for information just because the content. |
| " | Two big questions for these groups are: a) would you be willing to allow us to confirm your age in a way that might e.g. involve you showing your face and/or ID to a service company doing facial recognition or age estimation, paying a token amount on a credit card, or allowing them to check a bank account (some idea of what's more comfortable to you would help); and, to a lesser extent b) would some of you be willing to help us pay for that service, if required? |
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| " | it is important to cover circumstance in which a person may try to avoid prosecution by amending the image of a child slightly—for example, by adding antennae or animal ears, and then suggesting that the subsequent image is not a child |
| " | fibs wrote: |
| Elon Musk's fight with Brazil proves that logic doesn't fly in practice.. |
| " | fibs wrote: |
| You appear to be a lurker, so you don't understand what the issue is. |
| " | fibs wrote: |
| That magical prohaxx "circumvention" only works anonymously, i.e. for lurkers. It doesn't work for anyone with any coherent identity, i.e. artists. Not only is it pretty much impossible to pretend to be from a culture you're not, but the fact you already had the account before the legislation - or, for an artist, a reputation or brand that is platform-independent - means everyone already knows what country you're from anyway. |
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| And even if it was possible, no one is willing to use a social media site that requires them to hide away who they are. Which is why Brazil, one of the loudest "I AM FROM THIS COUNTRY" cultures imaginable, swiftly left X en masse rather than stick around under secret identities. |
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| " | The age of accounts thing is actually something that we will be considering, since a lot of users signed up over a decade ago by now - there has to be an age above zero that we can say "this person really can't be a child anymore, even if they were before". I know we've caught a few 14-year-olds before; we don't get many, and I'd argue about 'significant', but it happens and when we can verify an age below the minimum, we act. ~5-6 years (i.e. they signed up as 12) may be reasonable. |
