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

@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!

@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