UK Online Safety Bill

[Five_Inch_Heels]

I logged onto blue sky today and got asked to age verify, which I did by allowing facial recognition.
Nothing yet on X or Literotica

NEVER!!!!

 

[StillStunned]

Pretty sure GDPR comes into play as well.

In the UK? Not since Brexit, surely?

 

[KittyOfSteele]

"Safety."

That's all I have to say.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

This has nothing to do with safety. This is simply Big Brother. Nothing more.

This is what no one is seeing. It's all about gathering personal data.

 

[onehitwanda]

In the UK? Not since Brexit, surely?

nope, we have GDPR too. Ours is just better than that silly French version they have next door.

 

[stickygirl]

nope, we have GDPR too. Ours is just better than that silly French version they have next door.

GDPR is a toothless donkey in any country. Luxembourg fined Amazon 746 million euros in 2021 but they haven't paid. Quelle Surprise as they say in the EU

 

[pink_silk_glove]

This is what no one is seeing. It's all about gathering personal data.

100% an excuse to gather personal data on our private sexual tendencies.

 

[NuclearFairy]

Welp, there goes all thoughts of maybe joining blueskies, not gonna do it now.

 

[Bramblethorn]

I don't understand how A03 doesn't have its arse sued for libel for all the fan-fic. So many teen girls and their soppy Leah/me dramas.

Defamation requires reputational damage. If I write a story about Benedict Cumberbatch being a secret Reptoid who eats babies, there's no prospect of it harming his reputation - because nobody will believe me* - so there's no defamation.

*even when it's perfectly true

 

[stickygirl]

Defamation requires reputational damage. If I write a story about Benedict Cumberbatch being a secret Reptoid who eats babies, there's no prospect of it harming his reputation - because nobody will believe me* - so there's no defamation.

*even when it's perfectly true

He was the voice of Smaug, so there's that

 

[SimonDoom]

- because nobody will believe me* - so there's no defamation.

This is the Internet, and it's 2025.

People will pretty much believe anything.

 

[XerXesXu]

This is the Internet, and it's 2025.

People will pretty much believe anything.

Some people believe Brigitte Macron is a woman:

E and B Macron v Owens

 

[stickygirl]

So far, using The Netherlands for my VPN is working great. I might end up speaking Dutch because all the adverts play in that language ( much less irritating!! )