Reddit introduces age verification for OFCOM UK

[SilentSadness]

Reddit becomes another site to introduce age verification to appease the UK's ever-overreaching OFCOM regulations. Users will be required to upload their ID or a selfie to access 18+ or NSFW content. It's just another step in the UK's authoritarian agenda.
And here's the BBC propaganda article: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj4ep1znk4zo

 

[Satori Komeiji]

Yuck...Wish more companies were brave enough to just make their site inaccessible in the UK but of course that won't happen because money. Obviously anyone in the UK could just use a VPN to bypass restrictions.

 

[nobodycaresaboutme]

awful... People become Big Brother in the name of child protection or something though they hate totalitarianism like 1984. It's no surprise even if the UK would ban Tor and VPN next. We are now seeing how democracy fails.

 

[livershapedbox]

Yuck...Wish more companies were brave enough to just make their site inaccessible in the UK but of course that won't happen because money. Obviously anyone in the UK could just use a VPN to bypass restrictions.

I think all forums should ban traffic from the UK because that's where a lot of the annoying bootlickers come from, the rare people with brains living there would circumvent it easily anyway, so it'd just filter out the cattle