Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits

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1. For the love of god do not give them your ID.

   if (when) it takes effect in my region, I will purge any information I gave over the past 2 decades and bail.

   One of the main changes reddit made once the company went public in 2024- was the ability to completely remove content without a trace. Removeddit, ceddit, unreddit, and similar services do not have traceability anymore, so mods can easily censor people without leaving a trace to please advertisers, investors, and people wanting to control a narrative (++).

   this also allows me to delete decades worth of my content, guides, info, etc, where there is potential profit for reddit (via advertisers, search engines). Not saying it would make a difference but it’s principle.

2. What atrocity, I can’t believe it is happening bloody hell this is unbelievable shit I have ever seen in my life, you can’t even goon anonymously wtf is wrong with the world man, I hate this shit, luckily I don’t live nowhere near United Kingdom but if I lived there I couldn’t imagine how bad that is, I mean just look at it you can’t even goon anonymously man this is literally 1984. I know I haven’t read the book, I stopped at the page 169 because I got bored but if I read it I imagine it would look like this. Literally 1984. Like I can’t even goon anymore. Literally 1984

3. What in the conservative world type of move is this?

   Never thought the UK would implement legislation to intrude upon online footprint worse than my government. I can’t imagine this would lead to any outcome other than children actively searching for even shadier platforms and means of interaction.

4. So I ask an AI to create a selfie of an old man and send that to them (obviously, I use a VPN anyway)

   I wonder how robust their software is.

   Reminds me of when the UK gov ‘blocked the pirate bay’ at ISP level.

5. The UK is becoming a nanny state, except without any of the benefits of being a nanny state. So basically a place where the population is held captive by learned helplessness, while the forces of capital extract everything they can in an environment sanitized of humanity by neoliberalism.

6. This isn’t really a reddit only thing is it? It’s going to be every website that might contain NSFW stuff, anything that is considered 18+.

   There is 0 chance I’m sending any kind of identification to any of these websites that will require it. Unless I’m making money off of the website, like Youtube, This is not going to happen, I’m sure the websites that implement this are going to see a drastic decline in traffic from here and increase of VPN use.

   No website getting my mugshot. lol

7. I suggest people in the UK should start printing photos of the NSFW content they’re looking at and send them to their political representatives, since they’re so keen on knowing who’s looking at what.

8. Maybe they should request dick pics? If theres ample hair on your dick you can get on. That way you cant be identified and still somewhat age verified. They could also then train ai on drawing a perfect dick.

9. The funniest part is all the brits outrage in the comment section. My dudes, you most likely voted for this. And if not you let it happen. I’m no UK citizen, but even I heard of this law being passed and now it’s taken effect.

   This is some alabama or texas type shit happening (they literally have that same law), that has no bearing being even discussed in a free society and what was brits’ answer? Going apeshit on reddit – no protests, no nothing. You deserve this.

10. What happens if you’re using third party app? I used to use bacon reader. I can’t remember why I stopped and don’t know if it’s still active but would using something like that dodge the age thing?

11. > As such, Reddit has partnered with Persona, a third-party age verification provider. Users in the UK who wish to access restricted content will need to upload either a selfie or their government ID, which Persona will use to verify that they are over 18.

    Can’t wait to see the flavor of sorry Reddit will use when milions of selfies and personal documents are leaked or Persona folds and gets bought by some investment fund

12. This is so fucking stupid, lets make people upload personal information onto the internet to some random third part company who pinky promises not to keep it.

    Especially a company inside the US, who would trust that.. oh yeah here you fucking go, have my personal information to be tied to my Reddit account most likely.. real convenient for those dipshits at US border control who won’t let you enter if you don’t give them your social media accounts, I guess this solves that problem for them when you are willingly giving them that information ahead of time so they can ship you straight to Alcatraz.

13. As always with these kind of things thanks to vpn companies sponsoring 99% of YouTube this will be bypassed for a while until it gets to that country

    One problem this has is it’ll slowly push people to the dark net and sites that won’t be doing any age verification where who knows if the person in the content posted is doing it willingly,

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