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@paulbernal.bsky.social in other news did you see this, it's frustrating thar this isn't a bigger more controversial story www.techdirt.com/2026/09/03/h...

techdirt.comHackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a...
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@paulbernal.bsky.social typical, PH (who is complying with state AV) show state gov proof the state AV laws doing more harm and gov response is to threaten complying site (use VPN to access, blocked because of GDPR) bsky.app/profile/mike...

Mike Stabile@mikestabile.bsky.social

Louisiana's Gov says she will retaliate against Pornhub after the site showed the state's famous AV law isn't working. Pornhub has been complying with Louisiana's age-verification law since 2023. But 8 in 10 sites on Google are not. These people can not accept this is the wrong solution.

thecentersquare.comMurrill: No retreat on age verification for Pornhub(The Center Square) – Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill is rejecting Pornhub’s call to reconsider the state’s age-verification law, saying her office intends to increase scrutiny of the company i...
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@paulbernal.bsky.social well this went under the radar, the lords are having an inquiry as to (among other things) whether AV is a data risk or not. www.techtimes.com/articles/321...

techtimes.comLords Open Online Safety Act Inquiry as Breach-Prone Age Checks Strip Adult PrivacyOnline Safety Act review: the Lords inquiry launched July 27 demands answers on why the law allowed age-verification vendors to suffer breaches exposing government IDs, failed to block a pro-suicide f...
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@paulbernal.bsky.social so this is interesting, apparently people are even reluctant to AV themselves even just to watch R-rated films, so AV really isn't that popular in practice for anything bsky.app/profile/mike...

Mike Stabile@mikestabile.bsky.social

Carnegie Mellon ran a study on consumer willingness to age-verify, requesting IDs to watch R-rated movies. Only 28% of users were willing to verify. THAT'S LESS THAN A THIRD. Imagine what it's like when it's something more controversial, like porn or LGBTQ content. www.cs.cmu.edu/~sscheffl/do...

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@paulbernal.bsky.social so, AV for porn didn't stop kids and people actually going through with AVing themselves is lower than 2%. What an expensive waist of time (and i suspect duckduckgo is going to be more popular) bsky.app/profile/mike...

Mike Stabile@mikestabile.bsky.social

A year after the Online Safety Act, British regulator Ofcom confirms its age-verification regulations haven't stopped kids from accessing porn — despite widespread industry compliance. "Our research shows that almost half of the pornography services visited by children have no age checks in place"

ofcom.org.ukUse of Age Assurance Report 2026This report assesses how sites and apps use age checks to protect children from online harm.
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@paulbernal.bsky.social I'd say I'm speechless put this is a woman who believed when someone at google told here algorithms where the result of someone turning dials to show more liberal or more conservative content bsky.app/profile/mike...

Mike Stabile@mikestabile.bsky.social

One of the conservative architects of the UK's Online Safety Act is suddenly shocked — shocked! — to find that it applies to anti-immigrant content she likes. Censorship is a hungry, hungry, profoundly stupid beast.

dailymail.comNADINE DORRIES: Why we must scrap the Online Safety Act I helped shapeOn Sunday, the home affairs spokesman for Reform UK, Zia Yusuf, posted a video discussing the huge levels of mass migration Britain has had in recent years - and what our party will do about it.
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@paulbernal.bsky.social it's frightening that someone understands the Internet so little that they think this is a good idea bsky.app/profile/owen...

Owen Boswarva@owenboswarva.bsky.social

Yesterday in the Lords, Lib Dem peer Floella Benjamin floated the idea that tech companies and IT platforms should need a licence from Ofcom to operate in the UK hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2026-0... HT @cyberleagle.bsky.social Is this still about protecting the children #openweb #techpolicy

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@paulbernal.bsky.social so in relation to yesterday, apparently in spite of everything in the news yesterday about under 16 and social media the commons and the lords still aren't agreeing on anything so was probably all noise www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalO...

reddit.comOpening_Driver687's comment on "Censorship Megathread XLVII: Federal Surveillance Tech Becomes Mandatory in New Cars by 2027"Explore this conversation and more from the PoliticalOptimism community
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@paulbernal.bsky.social wait what! A under 16 ban AND a curfew, who the hell is the curfew for when you (think) you got rid of the under 16's news.sky.com/story/social...

news.sky.comSocial media ban: Minister says 'some form of' age limit or restriction will be brought inThe Conservatives have been calling for a ban on under-16s using social media for months and have accused the government of dragging its feet by holding a public consultation before doing anything.
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Time to rehash my old yes minister inspired joke from over a year ago bsky.app/profile/baku...

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The working class are to distracted to follow new legislation, the middle class are so up there arse to think carefully when it comes to pushing for the legislation and the upper class don't care because there insulated from legislation and everyone else has to pick up the peace's.

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@paulbernal.bsky.social " including some saying her children should be taken away from her." any respect i could have had for people who support a kids social media ban is GONE www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

theguardian.comFifteen-year-old Noah hasn’t been kicked off any social media platforms – he’s still fighting Australia’s under-16 ban in courtMillions of accounts have been deactivated since the ban came into effect in December, but Noah Jones found it was easily circumvented
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@paulbernal.bsky.social I can see where this is going, burden forces all porn to be blocked in the uk, VPN usage goes up, suddenly using a VPN is associated with looking for illegal porn, because OBVIOUSLY you must be looking for something illegal from a blocked site bsky.app/profile/owen...

Owen Boswarva@owenboswarva.bsky.social

Relatively common tropes, vaguely defined in law – it will be difficult for platforms to sift out illegal content. Anti-porn/sw crusaders no doubt hope the administrative burden will force platforms to block the UK, with broad effect on legal availability of online porn (and on offline collections).

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@paulbernal.bsky.social really sums up how afraid I am right now, I don't want this new Internet that's coming and I don't think the public really do but there cheering it on www.techdirt.com/2026/03/26/e...

techdirt.comEveryone Cheering The Social Media Addiction Verdicts Against Meta Should Understand What They’re Actually Cheering ForFirst things first: Meta is a terrible company that has spent years making terrible decisions and being terrible at explaining the challenges of social media trust & safety, all while prioritiz…
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@paulbernal.bsky.social again not a fan of zuckerberg but this seems bad because what's being demanded is the impossible or in the case of the prosecution demanding AV there demanding something that will make the problem worse www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

theguardian.comMeta ordered to pay $375m after being found liable in child exploitation caseNew Mexico hails ‘historic’ win after jury finds firm misled consumers over safety and enabled harm against users