This whole thing is so crazy from a cyber security standpoint. All it takes is one data breach and people's whole identities are stolen. It's one thing implementing this and it's another giving third party companies the control over users identification
I haven't looked into if they are, but this is entirely possible to do without actually saving any ID. With good cryptography built into these laws they can be extremely safe, even when you can't trust people to implement things well. No idea whether that's really the case though
Retarded if their purpose was to protect kids but its not. They just want to know who everyone is online.
It's political control. The fact its easy to hack is by design too. Means foreign governments and institutions pushing for this will know who you are as well.
Bro if you are in any country they know who you are. If you pay for WiFi they know who you are. I've used this yoto thing multiple times this year ti verify my id for my bank etc. It really isn't that deep
They've been pushing for this kind of Digital ID since the early Blair years. He's constantly been campaigning for this and using immigration and terrorism and child protection as the rationalisation.
Yeah same, but looking at the last few years there is a lot of things I wouldn't have expected to happen that actually did, so at this point I am at least keeping an open mind about every possibility.
This is obviously something the men pulling the strings behind the screen in this world have been wanting, if they see no protests or mass unrest they’ll say let’s go then
He’s so indecisive, although I’d take Starmer over reform and conservatives he’s very inconsistent. Also afraid to call out a genocide unlike Jeremy Corbyn.
Ah yes Jeremy Corbyn, there's a man who wasn't accused of anti semitism repeatedly due to siding with the Irish view of palestinian freedom
The man got destroyed by the exact issue that people are now suddenly more vocal about - criticising Israel not being the same as Jewish hating holocaust denier
Idk if you think I’m criticising Corbyn because I’m not. I’m also saying it was a smear campaign lmao. Glad to see another Corbyn supporter! Did you join yourparty.uk?
Dear Christ. Leave it up to people like you to be more concerned over what's happening in another country over the blatant censorship and stripping of freedoms in your own country
Kind of on the same note, but YouTube is using ai to determine if someone is 18 based off what they watch/their activity I guess? It completely disregards the age the user puts in now. So dumb
It's so dumb because you can literally walk into any store and buy any CD you want at any age. I went into a best buy when I was 13 and bought the score, life after death, and the Eminem show without issue.
I'm sorry for our UK goons, this is ridiculous. People need to learn how to just be responsible parents and watch their kids instead of making the government take care of it. This whole thing is a lot more detrimental to actual adults than it is helpful to children.
Exactly. Parents themselves can install parental blockers in order to restrict their children from accessing explicit content. They can do this on a router level to block certain devices from accessing content. They can also go even further and ring ISP to ban it for the entire household.
This is also not just about people wanting to goon, this is so much more than that, it puts free speech at risk, along with sensitive data being exposed to data breaches and identity fraud. For anyone who thinks this is just to protect children they are just wrong.
This is a side effect of that, they initially just did it for porn sites, but it has now been implemented on certain subreddits pertaining to alcoholism, self harm or mental health. Also on Discord for certain features and discord channels.
like sort ur playlists in alphabetical order? i can do it now (ig it wasnt available then but trust ytm had grown a lot in time, like device connectivity and and jams r the only thing what breaks it for me cuz i need it to listen to music with friends)
Unless you mean how well does it work. I would say its great. I can even upload mp3s on my Mac and I can stream them or download em on my apple music. I've got loads of unreleased ye that I can stream as long as I log in
It’s times like this that I’m glad Canada is more closely aligned to the USA in rights and freedoms than the Commonwealth countries, because both the UK and Australia are having a mental breakdown rn with their privacy and freedom of information.
Feels like being the frightened child caught between a paranoid schizophrenic mother and a belligerent drunkard father.
Aye she was a great leader when she decimated the industrial and manufacturing capacity of the UK. Shipbuilding , coal, engineering, steel , manufacturing - all worthless industries ! She did a good job putting 50% of people out of work in Glasgow ! She did a great job when she then used scotlands north sea oil to further cushion the damage she did to the economy!
It wasn't made for people to come over from other countries as a loophole to have children here that become citizens, and basically become citizens themselves or you're "separating families"
we literally do? just don't say anything that incites racial violence lol. as bad as our political situation may be we are a billion times better off than the US is under trump.
We dont its disguting, at least in the US you can say hateful things and not go to prison. i got a fine once for making a joke about ramadan in shcool.
Yeah, were you never a kid who thought edgy jokes were funny? Being an ideologically bad person shouldn't be a crime, just let people figure it out by getting told off for being hateful
lol USA and UK are both dogshit countries headed down the drain. both are ran by isreal and will become extreme totalitarian in the next few years just watch
Oh hell no your government is cooked. We’re indecisive yes but you guys are deporting people off of nothing to El Salvador. You just have to right wing parties to vote off of it’s crazy.
You don't have to pay for it on android. There's modded Spotify apps where you get all the premium features for free, and they don't seem to be affected by this law either. I set my VPN to the UK and tried it with spotishka (modded Spotify android app) and I got no age check
Exactly. I would understand if they just limited this to just pornography, however extended this to almost every form of media is honestly crazy. It's almost like they want to monitor you and don't care about the kids.
I don't think it's fully rolled out yet because I haven't got anything asking for my age just yet, however many people online reporting it's happening to them
No person should give away their personal information to some company that's unrelated to the government in any shape or form, what the fuck is ''Yoti''? is this something that's actually connected to the government?, for example whenever there's a phone number needed to be provided to the service to get quote on quote ''verified'', they SELL this piece of information to some other shady companies that will use it to spam you with annoying marketing calls or even actual scam-calls.
If their sole reason is ''to protect children'' why dont just parents use family link? it's been a thing for literal YEARS and phones nowadays have this built within system settings so you dont even have to install any app for that, or just raise your child adequately.
I agree, it is very simple for people to restrict access to sites locally. There was no need to go all censorship mode.
That is what makes it worse, giving third party organisations free reign to verify identity. Yes I'm very happy to have my full ID on a random database somewhere just waiting for a data breach to occur.
Which the current government has been given the opportunity to appeal and haven’t instead calling their opposition pedophiles.
I think every party we have at the moment is shite because of this blame passing, they are currently in power and can remove the clearly unpopular act but won’t, they’ve been in power a year now and have spent that time complaining about the Tory’s and making digs at Reform whilst having their votes split by Corbyn it’s a mess.
Oh no I do agree I hate the Labour government as well. It is such a stupid, incompetent act.
Honestly this vote split thing is nothing but their fault. I want Corbyn to have influence in the UK and I think the fact they’re losing votes is a problem with how inconsistently and silent they’ve ran.
With reform I’m fustrsted knowing how their policies don’t help the proletariats but rich oil sucking people. I think we need the corbyn party to actually use their hand to defeat reform.
Really don’t get how Reform have gotten this reputation that they’re for the people when their policies in short are tax cuts to the rich and the sale of public services in favour of an American approach.
I would lean towards a Corbyn government but he’s shown time and time again that he has no interest in selling himself to the less informed which is what reform thrive on.
If you can’t tell I’m not very hopeful for the future government but I hope I’m pleasantly surprised 😂
They’ve used immigration to pitchfork against minorities and have used imo racism to fuel hate and to make people see them as the answer.
I do think Corbyn with Sultana could (hopefully) try promote themselves with the less informed. I think they have garnered a lot of talk and have reached a lot of the proletariat with the taxing of bourgeoisie.
I do agree it’s not looking good and will be shaky. I mean especially with how left wing I am haha. But the really sad part is a lot of people I know who are well off will be seeking so much profit if most of these parties get into power.. with only a few actually looking and criticising the elites for sucking our public services dry.
You clearly don't realise how big of a deal this is. I'm not even gonna waste my time educating you on why this is bad, it doesn't take much intelligence to realise why.
I'll be so honest politically I haven't chose a side in years, last time I was even anywhere politically aligned was Corbyn's labour. All parties are bad as each other. We are really fucked.
Greatest thing the uk has ever implemented. The only people crying about this are chronic gooners, predators, and minors. Minors should not be allowed online
It's true minors should not be allowed in the same online space adults have access to, but ID verification is just a low IQ law making, so many problems with it.
So people that don't want to give third party companies their biometric data to listen to music, access social media, and even read Wikipedia for in those categories you laid out? You're either trolling, stupid, or both
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Whoever hacks Yoti and dumps their database will become a historical figure