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0 pointsdsign6mo ago0 comments

Hm? Have you taken a look at the law?

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/50/section/12

What's even "harmful content to minors"? Even if it were restricted only to pornography--which is not--I wouldn't count with being able to "moderate" all the ways users can draw penises.

The act regulates "user-to-user" services:

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/50/section/3

> In this Act “user-to-user service” means an internet service by means of which content that is generated directly on the service by a user of the service, or uploaded to or shared on the service by a user of the service, may be encountered by another user, or other users, of the service.

The legal text is dense but there is some analysis here:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/09/uk-online-safety-bill-...

And some news about Reddit: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/08/americans-be-warned-le...

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drawfloat6mo ago

Ofcom has a clear guide on how harmful to minors is defined. It is even clearly referenced in your own links:

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/cons...

Your own links also reference the fact that moderation of content by platforms will allow them to comply with the law.

I don’t like this law and not here to defend its existence. But it is factually untrue just adding this would mean you also need to age verify users.

Case in point (which is not a rare use case), I use webrtc signalling to establish data connections in a multiplayer online game. Why would that require age verification when users are unable to send random content to one another?

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