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Uk media reporting on the OSA:

Reality:

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reposting from bsky, but heres a cheat sheet for how to properly send a message to payment processing companies over the recent highly conservative shift in where youre allowed to legally spend your money

more info here!

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Your feminism isn’t worth shit if it doesn’t defend trans women

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Reading the new checks that might come in due to the Online Safety Act in the UK and this is actually bullshit

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And how will I prove my age?

There’s a number of methods a site or app might use to ask you to confirm your age. They might do this check themselves or use another company to do the check. These methods include:

Facial age estimation – you show your face via photo or video, and technology analyses it to estimate your age. 

Open banking – you give permission for the age-check service to securely access information from your bank about whether you are over 18. The age-check service then confirms this with the site or app.

Digital identity services – these include digital identity wallets, which can securely store and share information which proves your age in a digital format.

Credit card age checks – you provide your credit card details and a payment processor checks if the card is valid. As you must be over 18 to obtain a credit card this shows you are over 18.

Email-based age estimation – you provide your email address, and technology analyses other online services where it has been used – such as banking or utility providers - to estimate your age.  

Mobile network operator age checks – you give your permission for an age-check service to confirm whether or not your mobile phone number has age filters applied to it. If there are no restrictions, this confirms you are over 18. 

Photo-ID matching – this is similar to a check when you show a document. For example, you upload an image of a document that shows your face and age, and an image of yourself at the same time – these are compared to confirm if the document is yours.

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Not only is this such a fucking breach of privacy, but this is going to hurt adults in vulnerable and abusive situations. Some adults don’t have bank accounts or credit cards or even a fucking phone. I’m one of them. I could not give half of this information even if I wanted to. What the fuck is this. Fuck the UK government. This isn’t going to protect kids, this is just going to hurt adults, and I know full well when they say “sites that allow pornography” they’re going to be going after sites that have huge amounts of queer content, like tumblr and Ao3. Queer kids are gonna lose their fucking communities because of this shit. Abuse victims are going to lose online support systems because of this.

I’m genuinely fucked off about this, and worried about whether I’m going to lose every single one of my online friends. Anyone in the UK, please email your MP and sign this petition. It needs to reach 100k signatures to pass through Parliament.

I’m only hoping the backlash will be big enough for them to stop implementing these measures.

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did you think superman will support the genocide that killed over 20,000 children and is starving them ?

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anyone remember this vine

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The 'bad guy' realization brings a lot of shame.

Little people turn that shame into vile cruelty. For what? To save their shitty egos.

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is art i draw am excited for everyone to play deltarune!!

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This one never got much attention when I first shared it. :(

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ok time to pirate ubisoft games even harder

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"Prime Day" should be a day to boycott Amazon for all its bad behavior.

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Poverty IS a policy choice. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

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can someone post cid banana

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alright, whats the deal with elio? the fact that this film is currently in cinemas, and i have seen zero marketing for this film, to the point where i thought it was coming out next year is super suspicious. like, this doesnt read like ‘we dont have any faith in this film so well do bare minimum marketing’ this reads like ‘we actively do not want people to see this film’ to me

so whats disney burying this time? last time they did this it was strange world, which had a queer poc lead, so its pretty self explanatory why they did that, but i cant immediatly spot anything with elio, so whats the deal? is it one big immigration metaphor? is it secretly super queer? why does it feel like disney doesnt want people watching it?

am i just overthinking everything? probably. but its still feels super suspicious that ive seen less about elio than even strange world, a film disney were actively burying.