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7/19/2025, 4:14:05 AM
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/reddit-starts-verifying-ages-of-uk-users-to-comply-with-child-safety-law/
>Reddit announced today that it has started verifying UK users' ages before letting them "view certain mature content" in order to comply with the country's Online Safety Act.
>Reddit said it contracted with the company Persona, which "performs the verification on either an uploaded selfie or a photo of your government ID.
>Reddit provided more detail on how the age verification works here, and a list of what content is restricted here. For UK users under 18, Reddit said it has to restrict sexually explicit content; content that promotes suicide, deliberate self-injury, and eating disorders; content that incites abuse or hatred against people based upon protected characteristics; bullying content; content that promotes violence or "depicts real or realistic serious violence against a person, an animal, or a fictional creature"; content that promotes challenges or stunts that are likely to cause serious injuries; content that encourages people to use harmful substances or substances in harmful quantities; content that shames people based on body type or physical features; and "content that promotes or romanticizes depression, hopelessness and despair."
Reminder that it's just 10 days until every website is mandated by law to adopt the same policies towards UK users.
Pornhub, Youporn, etc will all require you to submit your face and/or ID from 25th July onwards in order to watch porn.
4chan will likely either be banned in the UK, or will willingly geoblock UK users, because this site has no way of implementing age verification.
>Reddit announced today that it has started verifying UK users' ages before letting them "view certain mature content" in order to comply with the country's Online Safety Act.
>Reddit said it contracted with the company Persona, which "performs the verification on either an uploaded selfie or a photo of your government ID.
>Reddit provided more detail on how the age verification works here, and a list of what content is restricted here. For UK users under 18, Reddit said it has to restrict sexually explicit content; content that promotes suicide, deliberate self-injury, and eating disorders; content that incites abuse or hatred against people based upon protected characteristics; bullying content; content that promotes violence or "depicts real or realistic serious violence against a person, an animal, or a fictional creature"; content that promotes challenges or stunts that are likely to cause serious injuries; content that encourages people to use harmful substances or substances in harmful quantities; content that shames people based on body type or physical features; and "content that promotes or romanticizes depression, hopelessness and despair."
Reminder that it's just 10 days until every website is mandated by law to adopt the same policies towards UK users.
Pornhub, Youporn, etc will all require you to submit your face and/or ID from 25th July onwards in order to watch porn.
4chan will likely either be banned in the UK, or will willingly geoblock UK users, because this site has no way of implementing age verification.
7/15/2025, 7:54:13 PM
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/reddit-starts-verifying-ages-of-uk-users-to-comply-with-child-safety-law/
>Reddit announced today that it has started verifying UK users' ages before letting them "view certain mature content" in order to comply with the country's Online Safety Act.
>Reddit said it contracted with the company Persona, which "performs the verification on either an uploaded selfie or a photo of your government ID.
>Reddit provided more detail on how the age verification works here, and a list of what content is restricted here. For UK users under 18, Reddit said it has to restrict sexually explicit content; content that promotes suicide, deliberate self-injury, and eating disorders; content that incites abuse or hatred against people based upon protected characteristics; bullying content; content that promotes violence or "depicts real or realistic serious violence against a person, an animal, or a fictional creature"; content that promotes challenges or stunts that are likely to cause serious injuries; content that encourages people to use harmful substances or substances in harmful quantities; content that shames people based on body type or physical features; and "content that promotes or romanticizes depression, hopelessness and despair."
Reminder that it's just 10 days until every website is mandated by law to adopt the same policies towards UK users.
Pornhub, Youporn, etc will all require you to submit your face and/or ID from 25th July onwards in order to watch porn.
4chan will likely either be banned in the UK, or will willingly geoblock UK users, because this site has no way of implementing age verification.
You could have stopped this, but instead you spent the past 5 years screeching "NOTHING EVER HAPPENS!" Now it's too late.
>Reddit announced today that it has started verifying UK users' ages before letting them "view certain mature content" in order to comply with the country's Online Safety Act.
>Reddit said it contracted with the company Persona, which "performs the verification on either an uploaded selfie or a photo of your government ID.
>Reddit provided more detail on how the age verification works here, and a list of what content is restricted here. For UK users under 18, Reddit said it has to restrict sexually explicit content; content that promotes suicide, deliberate self-injury, and eating disorders; content that incites abuse or hatred against people based upon protected characteristics; bullying content; content that promotes violence or "depicts real or realistic serious violence against a person, an animal, or a fictional creature"; content that promotes challenges or stunts that are likely to cause serious injuries; content that encourages people to use harmful substances or substances in harmful quantities; content that shames people based on body type or physical features; and "content that promotes or romanticizes depression, hopelessness and despair."
Reminder that it's just 10 days until every website is mandated by law to adopt the same policies towards UK users.
Pornhub, Youporn, etc will all require you to submit your face and/or ID from 25th July onwards in order to watch porn.
4chan will likely either be banned in the UK, or will willingly geoblock UK users, because this site has no way of implementing age verification.
You could have stopped this, but instead you spent the past 5 years screeching "NOTHING EVER HAPPENS!" Now it's too late.
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