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James BakerSexual Health subreddits r/STD and r/SafeSex are being blocked for under 18s due to the Online Safety Act. An issue for those aged 16-18 who might well go there for advice. #onlinesafetyact #reddit #sexualhealth
Seems it’s just a blanket ban on any subreddit within a /NSFW tag so some advice subreddits are not covered other larger ones like R/STD are. Seems based on your IP so a VPN gets around it
Steve Hill 🏴🇪🇺@JamesBaker oddly, I get an AV page on Pornhub, but not Reddit's nsfw subreddits (VPNed into my home network in the UK, as I'm at IETF in Madrid). I wonder of Reddit's geoip DB is on the wonk.
botvolution@JamesBaker
No, it's fine, unable to find any information, they will simply abstain.
No, it's fine, unable to find any information, they will simply abstain.
noodlejetski 
@JamesBaker hopefully this is going to make more people aware of reddit front-ends that let you browse subreddits without having to use the app or an account, like Redlib.
@noodlejetski Yes the silver lining of all of this is that many teenagers are going to become far more tech savvy. They will find ways to access information although sadly some of those ways will expose them to new risks
@JamesBaker yeah, that's my concern too. plenty of free VPNs that totally don't sell your data out there.
Mark Hughes@markhughes @JamesBaker The online safety act was passed by the previous government. Ok, so Labour could probably have repealed it, but placing the blame entirely on them seems pretty off.
@steve
They ditched other Tory policies but kept this in tact.
UK teens are now unable to access forums on sexual health and small communities are driven onto the platforms that created these harms.
They could have tackled the algorithmic feeds which caused the problem. That would be easy to police and enforce, but they've created new risks by forcing people to send identifying information to unregulated age verifiers and de facto censored large parts of the web for UK citizens.
@JamesBaker
CyberFrog@JamesBaker is this a global block or is it just georestricted for UK users?
Dan 🌻@JamesBaker Going to reddit for advice??? Reddit is awful
Kinky_me 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Haelwenn /элвэн/ 
@JamesBaker I hate how predictable that is…
The Vampire Fish Queen@JamesBaker I know I said this before but I really hope OSA and other groups are planning some from of legal challenge to the AV rules.
a fading echo@JamesBaker (to be fair, they are being blocked by Reddit, not by someone else. )
And it is clearly illogical.
And it is clearly illogical.
anonywooolf🏳️🌈 (he/him)@JamesBaker Will mastodon be affected by online safety act? It's decentralised.
@anonywooolf Yes anyone hosting an instance would have liabilities under the act it as it would be a user-to-user service. How Ofcom will enforce decentralised services like Mastodon or Usernet not sure.