Some Gaza and Ukraine posts blocked under new age checks

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1. The irony of a post about censorship on Reddit being made public 42 minutes after it’s submitted, with triple dot indicating a large majority of users cannot comment about it.

2. Heres the guidance companies should be following:

   [Guidance on content harmful to children](https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/consultations/category-1-10-weeks/statement-protecting-children-from-harms-online/main-document/guidance-on-content-harmful-to-children.pdf?v=395445)

   Its worth reading it and challenging them if you think they are overdoing it. Reddit is ridiculous for it making all NSFW subs age restricted. Having the information to hand will make you complaint that much more impactful.

   To be clear the legislation says its for companies to identify harmful content themselves then, it specifies that harmful content is to be age restricted. The guidance is to help them define what is harmful content, it doesn’t go into details about how to restrict access to the content. Illegal content is handled in a separate guidance document and the legislation requires companies to remove it so is separate to the age restrictions.

3. Also can anyone else see anywhere in the bill where it mentions anything about protecting kids from gambling related content? like lootboxes, adverts for slot machines, etc? Because I can’t see anything.

4. This is my main thing with the Online Safety Bill, the data stuff is bad enough, but now people aren’t getting the full picture because the government doesn’t want them to see it.

   The government are going to start censoring posts and articles that are critical of them, maybe the person who wrote it is thrown in prison for a few years for daring to criticise the government? Let’s not act like any other party would be any different, either.

   I’m just wondering ***”Why isn’t this on the BBC News? It seems a pretty important thing to just put on the website and nowhere else.”***

5. Tbh this is on Reddit and Twitter – Reddit need to make a separate class of NSFW post rather than just age restrict everything NSFW. Twitter too, although given that Musk is currently sharing Tommy Robinson I suspect he’s quite keen to see it fail.

6. Well. If you want to protect kids – blocking real time wars and atrocities would fit the bill, no? Either way, get a VPN, folks. I like my 1984 in book form only.

7. No really, colour me shocked – the bill to protect the kids is being used to block relevant world news from adults.

   Didn’t see that one coming form a mile off at all.

8. This is *not* because of the OSA, this is because of some sites being very bad at working out what is actually OSA-relevant content and just choosing to block anything even vaguely spicy.

   People are just noticing that Reddit and Twitter have a very conservative, censorious view on what ‘NSFW’ means, because for so long we’ve basically just ignored it (including 12 year old kids).

   There are some bits of Reddit that absolutely should be blocked to children.

   If these sites don’t work out how to make themselves usable for anonymous users, and better categorise what is actually content that needs restriction (not just in the UK but in other countries that create similar laws in the near future), then competitors which do will likely take over UK (and probably EU) market share.

   I’m not sure we really need another thread about the OSA, though, do we? There are already several places we’re having this discussion.

9. You can’t even look at betting subs on this site now. Wanted to look earlier as I do yearly season long bets, utter ridiculous law.

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