We need to block all foreign routers
Since we're in a terrible fix
They threaten our national security
And still don't do IPv6

Hello, lovely user, it's Apple
Ensure you update your device
Now give us your passport or driving licence
Or we'll deny you unspecific vice

@neil If the passport route worked, it might be very slightly less annoying (if still frankly galling and utterly illiberal).

What is particularly annoying is that a) passports don't work (or if they do, you have to be very lucky in scanning them), b) the indications from various online forums are that this was known about during the beta of 26.4 and c) Apple rolled out the release anyway, which is just sloppy and amateurish.

@gmh @neil So this is a bug? Doesn't the UK have the equivalent of GDPR allowing you to sue Apple into smithereens for mistreating your PII?
@rpluim @gmh I suspect that the UK's data protection regulator would be on Apple's side here, asserting that Apple needs to do this to comply with UK data protection law.
@neil @gmh So the age verification is on purpose? Your governments really all are authoritarian right wingers in disguise, whatever their label.
@neil @gmh I'd read it, but I'm in a permanent bad mood about the state of the world already. I assume it says something along the lines of "we must take away your essential liberty for the sake of the children"
@rpluim @neil @gmh Everyone needs to push back on this hard.