People acting like the UK Online Safety bill accidentally causes the shutdown of small independent forums, rather than that being the entire point of it: To ensure the only hosts allowed are corporations with legal departments who will censor and spy as required by government (and are likely already doing both for their own reasons anyway).
Okay, sure. They were told over and over again, but it's an accident, they didn't mean to.
Sure.
Wanna buy a bridge?
@jackeric It would seem to require age verification, which likely means paying a 3rd party service that will need to identify users in order to age them.
Can that be done with any level of privacy? Nope.
You may mean edent's blog [ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/12/food-safety-vs-online-safety/ ]
Which treats it as a reasonable request and ends with the rant
I'm quite annoyed at both age "verification" and CSAM scanning requiring site owners to pay large commercial companies to provide these services. If something is mandatory, there should be a publicly provided option.