Rev. Poppy Haze ð“…‹

so i'm reading the Ofcom's guidance to do age gating, and would it be legal to have every user, before they log in, send in a photo of cigarettes or a beer next to like a post-it with their username and the date?

i feel this meets their 4 criteria
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/illegal-and-harmful-content/age-assurance

Mar 6 at 4:19amWeb
Show threadRev. Poppy Haze ð“…‹Mar 6

for small, low-volume forums: this is an easily done manual check; it reveals little about the user except their general location on a national level and a small bit of handwriting; and it remains relatively pseudonymous

its criticisms apply to any other system such as credit card or ID scanning

Show threadKevin Karhan Mar 6

@poppyhaze Personally, I'll just give #Ofcom the finger as their bullshit.violates #GDPR & #BDSG so hard that I'd rather migrate anything to @torproject as #OnionService than comply with such #Cyberfascism as a matter of principle…

  • Still, I do approve of any subversions and hacks of such systems regardless!
Show threadRev. Poppy Haze ð“…‹Mar 6

@kkarhan @torproject i thinking about like small niche forums based in the UK who don't want to disband their community, move to VPNs, or move to like Tor.

this system offloads it all to a widely available legal authority for checking for under-18s whilst also not directly violating privacy