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Originally posted by Hermit:

I don't think people understand the future of the internet if you comply with the OSA. If people comply, every single site in the future will require some form of age verification to operate. This will obviously be impossible for the majority of forums, blog sites or anything controlled by a small community, so they will just shut down. The entire internet will end up being consolidated.

Every single site?

What is the OSA (Online Safety Act) - Protecting children from pornographic content.

So you want people to give up part of their hobby? Since quite some games are mainly on Steam on PC.

And yes, genuine question.

Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:

So you want people to give up part of their hobby? Since quite some games are mainly on Steam on PC.

And yes, genuine question.

My hobby is playing games not buying them.

We all have our massive backlogs and games are mostly on Steam because people are mostly buying on Steam; if enough people desire otherwise that can be influenced.

Originally posted by Nx Machina:

Originally posted by Hermit:

I don't think people understand the future of the internet if you comply with the OSA. If people comply, every single site in the future will require some form of age verification to operate. This will obviously be impossible for the majority of forums, blog sites or anything controlled by a small community, so they will just shut down. The entire internet will end up being consolidated.

Every single site?

What is the OSA (Online Safety Act) - Protecting children from pornographic content.

Originally posted by Who the Act applies to:

The Act’s duties apply to search services and services that allow users to post content online or to interact with each other. This includes a range of websites, apps and other services, including social media services, consumer file cloud storage and sharing sites, video-sharing platforms, online forums, dating services, and online instant messaging services.

The Act applies to services even if the companies providing them are outside the UK should they have links to the UK. This includes if the service has a significant number of UK users, if the UK is a target market, or it is capable of being accessed by UK users and there is a material risk of significant harm to such users.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/online-safety-act-explainer/online-safety-act-explainer#who-the-act-applies-to

Can we all agree that the Online Safety Act is fascist policy? It masquerades as a policy made to protect children but It is, in fact a policy made for governments to control what we say or do online. It is designed to rape anonymity to death after all...

Originally posted by Nx Machina:

Originally posted by Hermit:

I don't think people understand the future of the internet if you comply with the OSA. If people comply, every single site in the future will require some form of age verification to operate. This will obviously be impossible for the majority of forums, blog sites or anything controlled by a small community, so they will just shut down. The entire internet will end up being consolidated.

Every single site?

What is the OSA (Online Safety Act) - Protecting children from pornographic content.

You people really need to start reading the entire post instead of taking bits and pieces and twisting them into something else entirely.

Did you miss the part where I said the OSA wasn't about protecting kids from porn? Would you like examples? I'm sure you have seen them but refuse to acknowledge them, so let me refresh your memory.

Spotify are rolling out mandatory age verification to comply with the OSA. Spotify has no porn.

Microsoft are rolling out age verification next year to use their social features, their social features don't have porn.

All of these companies specifically mention the UK's OSA law as their reason for implementing this, and if you look at the details of the OSA, you will see why. It doesn't just cover porn, you've been told it does and instead of looking at it yourself, you have chosen to take their word for it. It's anything that the UK government classes as putting a child's safety at risk, which could be something as simple as linking to a Youtube video. This is why so many community led sites have announced they will be shutting down. They don't have the tools, man power or funds to cover such ridiculous demands. Hiding behind "protecting the kids" is all just a trap though, they want control, which is why government mp's are spreading complete nonsense about how VPN's will harm children.

Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:

So you want people to give up part of their hobby? Since quite some games are mainly on Steam on PC.

And yes, genuine question.

I never said that, but you knew that.

Not complying doesn't equate to giving up their hobby. I swear that people like yourself would go along with everything. You have tried to shut down almost every single concern about this in numerous threads now. You're clearly happy to be a good little citizen and do as you're told, so why not just say it?

Originally posted by InfectorRobert:

Can we all agree that the Online Safety Act is fascist policy? It masquerades as a policy made to protect children but It is, in fact a policy made for governments to control what we say or do online. [...]

You are right and I too am frustrated but also please don't wish death on people and delete your last line! 🫂

Main topic aside, forum board websites have been shutting down for years, due to Discord, social media and a drastic increase in smartphone app usage, not because of restrictions or types of enforcement on guidelines.

Originally posted by Cosmic.Chaos:

Originally posted by InfectorRobert:

Can we all agree that the Online Safety Act is fascist policy? It masquerades as a policy made to protect children but It is, in fact a policy made for governments to control what we say or do online. [...]

You are right and I too am frustrated but also please don't wish death on prople and delete your last line! 🫂

Alright.. But I'm about as enraged as you are with this so called online safety act that the thoughts struck my head!

Originally posted by Neoyoshi:

Main topic aside, forum board websites have been shutting down for years, due to Discord, social media and a drastic increase in smartphone app usage, not because of restrictions or types of enforcement on guidelines.

This is true, but replace forums with any other type of site and it's still the same thing.

Originally posted by Nx Machina:

Originally posted by Hermit:

I don't think people understand the future of the internet if you comply with the OSA. If people comply, every single site in the future will require some form of age verification to operate. This will obviously be impossible for the majority of forums, blog sites or anything controlled by a small community, so they will just shut down. The entire internet will end up being consolidated.

Every single site?

What is the OSA (Online Safety Act) - Protecting children from pornographic content.

For now but it will go into every day things. Want to voice in a game confirm your age, want to play a slightly gorey game.... ID. Want to to piss in a public bathroom hey we need ID. <--- that is not a joke some bathrooms actually want to use credit card so i guess they know your over the age to use the bathroom i guess, Want to use youtube listen to some music yeah we need your age. Online collecting data act will go to every day life. Want to buy a cucumber and some mayo for those spicy nights alone we require some ID. won't stop with just this.

So...giving Valve access to your personal banking info = good.

Using a credit card that offers an additional layer of information security between Valve and your personal banking info = bad.

Sounds legit.

Originally posted by Nx Machina:

Originally posted by Hermit:

I don't think people understand the future of the internet if you comply with the OSA. If people comply, every single site in the future will require some form of age verification to operate. This will obviously be impossible for the majority of forums, blog sites or anything controlled by a small community, so they will just shut down. The entire internet will end up being consolidated.

Every single site?

What is the OSA (Online Safety Act) - Protecting children from pornographic content.

As I am an adult in the EU, I can tell you this. Most prornographic sites (since you brought up the topic, I will reply to it) have a button choice. Are you older then 18 years old. Yes / No.

When I was 12, I knew I had to press yes. There is no authentication taking place what so ever. Even better yet, I could just tell steam that I lived since 1950 when I wanted to, even while I am from 1974.

So the whole Online safety act as a whole is kinda like 'meh', if you would ask me. Unless you start throwing in online identification on a platform. But then you'll touch the privacy act. And steam can't really ask for your id card (because that would be, from an EU point of view) be illegal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrEUzKTt7j0

The internet's been dead for decades, people are just now starting to realizing it.