Electronic Frontier FoundationAug 23, 2025
The UK's Online Safety Act's push to protect kids online through content blocking and age checks sounds good—until you look deeper. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/08/blocking-access-harmful-content-will-not-protect-children-online-no-matter-how
Blocking Access to Harmful Content Will Not Protect Children Online, No Matter How Many Times UK Politicians Say So

The UK is having a moment. In late July, new rules took effect that require all online services available in the UK to assess whether they host content considered harmful to children, and if so, these services must introduce age checks to prevent children from accessing such content. Online...

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@eff The British effort of blocking access online is only a cheap excuse made for people, who not question such decisions at all. First and foremost this is nothing but a measurement to oppress the "common folks", coming from the British (self-announced) elites, in other words: British classical and money nobility, who want to increase their social distance to the common people even more.
Aug 30, 2025 at 8:37amWeb