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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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Heads up, UK friends.

Discord has implemented the age verification requirement system per the upcoming law going into affect later this week early, so prepare yourself for other sites, which may include Tumblr given the intent is to target adult content which may affect here because of how it still does get posted here, even if the intended targets are the actual site for it.

As of writing, the official petition to have the Online Safety Act repealed is close to 30,000 signatures, but it's barely enough to garner much attention to where it may be dismissed by Parliament, or may get discussed but not getting to where it'll be repealed to actually figure a system that doesn't carry the risk of private information getting leaked.

So again, please help spread and sign the official petition here.

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The same friend that put me on forsaken introduced me to die of death and now the both of us love the creature (pursuer)

Drawn at 1 am while sleep deprived from going to be at 5 am the previous night and racking up 16 hours in roblox non stop

(A lot of these have taken inspo from random reaction pics I found on pintrest)

(Also bonus c00lkidd cuz I can't do anything without bringing him up)

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I finished cyberpunk at 3am and I still haven't recovered I'm so numb

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That moment when u hyperfixate on a roblox character

I love you c00lkidd

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Hand me the ability to draw and I will draw no matter the platform

Played neighbors with my friend cuz it's fun with her (zombiebunny333) and found out u can buy a spray can, it has a color wheel and LAYERS. no way to stop me now

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I needa sit down and actually draw. Just in general but especially oc ref sheets

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How it feels to be queer & disabled:

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I recommend everyone make ocs to ship with a friend at least once (especially in a bigger oc friendgroup) cuz this is brings so much joy

The character cas/Caspian (red) belongs to my mutual on Twitter @/CowboySamurai_ :)

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I wish they would’ve had Kerry’s eye makeup running in boat drinks, but I’m also happy they didn’t because it probably would’ve sent me into cardiac arrest

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Oomfs and I are making a collab band ocs based in cp77 this is my lil dude

His name is Ryszard, but ppl call him Rysiek or Rys! He's a polish nomad and the 2nd guitarist of the band he's still a wip, but he's dearly loved by me and the rest if the group already

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when johnny silverhand was talking about his "impressive cock," he was talking about his insane hrt bottom growth btw

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That moment when you're both old(er) men but still have a big age gap

Yes ik v is like canonically 23 but idc vampire is in his 50s

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Thinking about Kerry's and Vampire's differences in upbringing. Kerry, being this city boy who loves N.C. and crowds, meanwhile, Vampire grew up in rural Poland before finding himself with the bakkers during his late 20s to early 30s, he doesn't like crowds or cities. Much prefering grass beneath his feet and waking up to birds rather than gun shots. But.. he finds this small comfort in N.C sure it's no Tarnów but this is where he found love. Genuine love. With Kerry beside him he's sure he could even find comfort at a trash site. Kerry showed him that home isn't always a place. It can be a person.

Even as much as he misses Poland, he's found his place in N.C. thanks to his city boy boyfriend

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Messaging people for the first time is so hard. What am I supposed to say? Like, "You seem really odd and your blog intrigues me. Do you want to have philosophical conversations or perhaps talk about fictional characters?" What! Whatever. I will just follow you back and stare at your blog with my big beautiful brown eyes.

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Vamp--.. Vampire stop licking that senior citizen

or continue idk yall are both freaks

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A lil sketch I did at work cuz I'm gay for kerry