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jaz :twt: :wales_flag:

@openrightsgroup have started a campaign to protect low-risk small-scale sites, and have a very easy-to-use tool to help you write to your MP to express your concern about the impending implementation of Ofcom's illegal harms code of practice. It will take less than 5 minutes to do.

If you are affected as a user or a site operator, you can use the template here to write to your MP.

action.openrightsgroup.org/sav

Open Rights GroupSave our sites - Write to your MPSmall UK websites, user-to-user services and even computer games that are completely safe and well managed, are faced with difficult paperwork, risks assessments, registration and fines thanks to the Online Safety Act. Even personal blogs with comments are forced to undergo these difficult tests and compliance tasks. Getting it wrong or ignoring them could cost an operator their house – as fines can be imposed for failing to do them. As a result, many small websites in the UK are deciding to close down.
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Derick Rethans

@jaz @openrightsgroup I wrote months ago. Still no answer.

Ret

@derickr @jaz @openrightsgroup same. I’m tempted to go and speak to mine at his constituency office. I bet he’s never even heard of this to be honest. They are all absolutely useless.

Walrus 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@jaz @openrightsgroup

I sent the message to my MP, Ann Davies of Plaid Cymru. I added this ...

"I occasionally write blog posts about food and other things. Now I will be required to somehow prevent people younger than a certain age from reading my blog. HOW? I don't even know who looks at it. Please get this law amended, it's impossible to comply with it."

Well, at least I tried.

Giles Goat

@Walrus @jaz @openrightsgroup I think that technically "no matter what one does you will NEVER be able to implement a 100% secure age verification". I mean unless MAYBE your site will be super encrypted and locked behind a "you need a retinal/fingerprint scan connected to a super secure GOV database that can say 'yes that biometric thing is ONLY connected to MR X that is an adult' " I can't see how anything else could not be impersonated by a non-adult ... I mean it's like CONT.

Giles Goat

@Walrus @jaz @openrightsgroup CONT. a child stealing dad's pr0n magazines .. unless they are locked in a safe and even there "they could spy the combination" .. how one earth you can possibly truly protect a website. And "where do you put the limit of free expression" ?

jaz :twt: :wales_flag:

@gilesgoat @Walrus @openrightsgroup one option is to place the responsibility on the parents by placing the verification on the device. Children, for the most part, cannot buy their own devices. The parent or store that sets it up can simply mark it as being owned/used by a minor, and then the app stores can send that signal to apps. No age, no birthday, just "not an adult".

And agreed, there is no 100% way to assure or verify anything ever

pornhub.com/blog/protecting-mi

www.pornhub.comProtecting Minors Online: Why Device-Based Age Verification Is the KeyDevice-Based Age Verification Is the Solution!
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