The UK enacted the Online Safety Act, mandating platforms to eliminate harmful content and safeguard children. Additionally, the law encourages websites to verify users’ ages, potentially through ID checks, to access adult content.
Supporters argue that this legislation prioritizes safety, while critics express concerns about censorship, surveillance, and privacy violations.
Considering these factors, would you support a similar initiative in the United States? Could it be implemented within the framework of the First Amendment?
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The UK enacted the Online Safety Act, mandating platforms to eliminate harmful content and safeguard children. Additionally, the law encourages websites to verify users’ ages, potentially through ID checks, to access adult content.
Supporters argue that this legislation prioritizes safety, while critics express concerns about censorship, surveillance, and privacy violations.
Considering these factors, would you support a similar initiative in the United States? Could it be implemented within the framework of the First Amendment?
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Link to the actual law so folks can make informed answers to your last 2 questions
Just a government handout to the VPN companies.
>mandating platforms to eliminate harmful content and safeguard children.
what do they consider harmful content?
>Additionally, the law encourages websites to verify users’ ages, potentially through ID checks, to access adult content.
i don’t like this. it’s bad for privacy and very unlikely to work anyway.
I glanced at it. I wouldn’t personally vote for it… too “Nanny State” for me, and I’m not in favor of most laws that are just punishments after the fact. As both a parent and a retired software developer: parents should be the ones responsible for policing children’s online content.
Tea shows that you can’t trust privately developed apps, and you sure as hell can’t trust the government, so it will just end up being a honeypot for cybercrims. And “harmful content” is being used by conservative Christian groups that cosplay as “feminists” while being pro-life (“right to childhood” banner prominently on their website) like Collective Shout to ban adult content entirely, and you know they’ll say anything LGBTQ+ is “harmful” as well
I would be open to considering it if we had consistent standards for what qualifies as adult content.
A man and a woman kiss, that’s fine.
LGBT people kiss and everyone loses their shit.
Not to mention all the religious folks who think anything that doesn’t affirm their religion is unsafe for kids.
This is Nanny state B.S.
No. I am not convinced porn is harmful enough to justify such laws. There are certainly more harmful things we accept as the cost of free speech.
It would literally ban Wikipedia from the UK. It’s stupid as fuck and designed to control information, not actually protect anyone. As all these really are.
I would support efforts to develop more effective parental control options, for both PC and phones, including something where Youtube channels and social media platforms have to be whitelisted. But this is completely antithetical to both privacy and safety.
I do not live in the UK but I understand it is counting LGBT content as adult which is evil and despicable
Excuse to censor and monitor people under the guise of protecting children.
And no, it should not be a thing in the US either. It wouldn’t even protect children. It will just push kids who want to seek that stuff to find it through shadier means and put them in more danger.
It will instead be used to isolate and censor lgbtq people. They are already trying to push this lie that talking about lgbtq topics makes you a pedophile and a groomer.
It will also be used to just censor anything they don’t like to begin with.
On the one hand, I love adult content, on the other hand I firmly believe that the entire internet should be an adult-only space.
So yes, I am concerned about censorship and what not, and I am sure that the Americans pushing for this legislation are doing it because they are uptight prudes. Whatever discourages kids from being online in any capacity is a good thing. The internet is one of those places that you can be without the expectation of a constable. If you sit at a park and stare at children, you will be noticed and someone will say something. The internet has no such protections or social awareness.