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4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law (www.courtwatch.news)
submitted 5 days ago by Pro@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/36419565

Lawsuit.

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[–] arc99@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Their lawsuit will fail for the simple reason they only have to age verify UK citizens, not everyone. But it does go to show how stupid this law actually is. If the UK wanted to block 4chan (for example) to under 18s, then ISPs should provide optional filtering software with every account that can be enabled per device to do it. It would be far more effective than expecting websites around the world to police the UK's own laws.