New UK Law Requires You to Submit Your ID to Use Social Media

A new law in the UK that requires ID to access adult sites has triggered a wave of backlash and a massive surge in VPN use. Right? In this law, it’s reportedly already led to 5 million age checks a day. Essentially, any site where it is remotely possible to see adult content, they need to check IDs, right? And it covers, I guess pun intended, way more than just naked people. Platforms where things like eating disorders or self harm could be encountered, they need to follow the law as well. Meaning essentially all of social media, and that includes YouTube. I mean, even Spotify users have to get their ID check. And despite it today, the the Online Safety Act, it might actually put users at more risk online in a number of ways. I mean, to put it simply, a lot of people just aren’t really comfortable giving up their government IDs in order to access content online. Especially cuz like if you’ve paid attention to the news over the past decade or so, it feels like more of a when information is going to get leaked and come out rather than if. And so, it’s because of concerns like that that a lot of people have turned to VPNs at a staggering rate. I mean, just one example, that Swiss company Proton, they reported that their VPN had an 18,800% spike in daily signups after the law went into effect in late July. And of course, they’re hardly the only one seeing insane signup rates. And with this, I’m going to say something and I’m also making sure that my my sponsor in this space is not included in this episode, but it is very important to note that the turn to VPNs, it is not 100% safe either because not all VPNs are built equally, right? Some they end up being little more than data collection tools of their own for big companies.

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A new law in the UK that requires ID to access adult sites has triggered a wave of backlash and a massive surge in VPN use. right, and this law It’s reportedly already led to 5 million age checks a day. Essentially, any site where it is remotely possible to see adult content, they need to check IDs. right, And it covers, I guess, pun intended, way more than just naked people. platforms where things like eating disorders or self-harm could be encountered, They need to follow the law as well. meaning essentially all of social media. And that includes YouTube. I mean, even Spotify users have to get their ID checked. And despite it today, the Online Safety Act, it might actually put users at more risk online in a number of ways. I mean, to put it simply, a lot of people just aren’t really comfortable giving up their government IDs in order to access content online. especially because, like if you’ve paid attention to the news over the past decade or so, it feels like more of a when information is going to get leaked and come out rather than if. And so it’s because of concerns like that that a lot of people have turned to VPNs at a staggering rate. I mean, just one example. The Swiss company proton, they reported that their VPN had an 1,800% spike in daily sign ups after the law went into effect in late July. And of course, they’re hardly the only ones seeing insane sign up rates. And with this, I’m going to say something And I’m also making sure that my my sponsor in this space is not included in this episode, but it is very important to know that the turn to VPNs, it is not 100% safe either, because not all VPNs are built equally. right, some they end up being little more than data collection tools of their own for big companies. Because remember, if the product is free, you’re the product.

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36 comments

  1. Parents should be the ones controlling their kids screen usage, not the government. Just because we have like way way too many crappy parents doesn’t mean the government can start requiring us to be more prone to getting doxxed.

  2. We believing in amenity now that covid is over I see. Flip flopping when it’s convenient is always a left leaning ideal.

  3. we have this in the us im pretty sure, i heard gta V now requires id check and thats just a huge violation of privacy and safety as far as im concerned, by the end of the decade it feels like every major company is gonna have all our driver licenses on file and thats sketchy af

  9. Just another example of the sacrifices I have to make for other people who don't know how to bring up their own kids.

  10. The problem is there is no fixed age in which a child is mature enough to engage in these things.
    For each child, that level of maturity is at different ages, it could be at 13 or at 20.
    These things are essential in a child's development. People who are sheltered from these things their entire lives end up weird.

  12. The problem is, they put this in place to police us brits online, not protect children. Because a lot of support websites FOR KIDS in a rough situation (however that may manifest) are now thrown behind the age restrictions. It's already doing more harm than good

  14. I dont mind the idea of making the internet more secure for children (even if thats the parents job) but uhm.. that aint it boss lmao

  15. I truly believe that people in government have zero understanding of child psychology. Children are very rebellious about rules when walls are put in place. If you tell a kid they shouldn’t visit these sites because they’re bad, and explain why, but you don’t have something to stop them. They may not visit them because there is no satisfaction of breaking the rules. But if you try and prevent them from visiting the sites. They will purposely visit the sites because you try to stop them. Even if they have no interest in the site, it’s them learning ways around the idea of rules.

    As a kid in the late 90’s and early 2000’s when schools started getting lots of computers. That very rule of you can’t visit adult sites. Having lectures and talks about why you shouldn’t do it and strict rules about it. Created a challenge with me and dozens of kids to find a way to break around the rules. Before the rules, and lectures there was very little interest, because we were young and not really understanding about adult content. But once the rules were made and enforced, everybody wanted to break the rules and visit those very sites.

  16. Thank you for talking about this, it’s a massive problem. The government is mandating regular people after years of saying “never share your ID numbers and passport numbers” to go ahead and hand them out willy nilly to every 3rd party company that asks for it! How are we meant to trust them? In my opinion, it’s a gigantic data leak waiting to happen, and will probably become one of the worst of it’s kind.

  17. Also, there’s now a site which makes a fake ID using your local member of parliament, which many teens are now using to access adult sites and beat the age verification system!

  19. protect kids? yeah right. just call it that to appeal to a larger audience, the same audience you're going to jail for "hate speech"

  20. This could be done in a much better way where you have OAuth with a government site. In Ireland we have MyGovId which is entirely houses on government servers. It also is set up to use as an OAuth service. This would mean that the site itself would have no access to your id. I honestly am not against it if it is implemented this way. I think the "Are you 18" thing is ridiculous and I think there should be higher protections on what kids can access. If you were able to do it in a secure way though

  21. This bill is a step in the right direction, but they've gone the wrong way with it.
    Children do need to be protected more online and they should be things out in place to protect them, but the main source of that protection should come FROM THE PARENTS.
    We shouldn't have to give up our freedom or privacy because the law won't hold bad parents accountable for their in-action on raising their own children.

  26. It's almost as if it was never about the kids, because it never is about the kids.
    It's about control.

    WW2 Germany literally started of in a similar way

  28. Kids are going to find stuff you don't want them to. You can either prepare for that with mature and frank discussion, or you can lie to yourself and pretend it won't happen.

  32. There’d have to be a straight up nonprofit receiving donations to run (Wikipedia) to not make the users the product.

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