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[–] devolution@lemmy.world 1 points 7 minutes ago
[–] abbiistabbii@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 minutes ago

Oh I'm sorry, which government demanded age checks which made kids give away their data to check their ages? Oh yeah.

[–] lyralycan@sh.itjust.works 46 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

As much as I hate Reddit this is just continuation of the UK government steamrolling and destroying the free Internet, ruining the adult experience.

One of the wonders of the Internet was that it was wildly unregulated - if you wanted it and you could disable safesearch you could get it, with the caveat of ISP-enforced content locks on all mobile data subscriptions under the name of a legal child (under 18), workplace and school security and filters, unremovable Safesearch on most search engines etc. Broadband required an adult, who in turn could activate parental controls. I couldnt wait until I turned 18 so I could finally access many sites for porn, news, gaming, forums and anything containing keywords without being blocked. I had a list of proxies for bypassing school filters.

In short there is significant existing protection in place and we know that this is simply more evidence of Orwellian enforcement.

[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 28 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (3 children)

/u/Spez (creator of /r/jailbait) should be in the car next to Andrew and on the gallows next to Trumpstein.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Ironically, Huffman doesn't seem to be in the Epstein files. This isn't because he isn't a pedophile-- he very likely is-- but he simply wasn't important enough of a person for them to invite him or even talk about him.

[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 hour ago

4chan had approximately 10x the users as reddit did in 2011 when Epstein and Poole connected.

But ya fuck u/spez. Even the biggest losers on earth hate u/spez

[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 10 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not defending the guy but wasn't it that a mod of that subreddit added him as a mod as a joke? I don't think spez created it.

[–] FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 10 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

/u/Spez (creator of /r/jailbait)

oh 🫣 I've probably heard that before but I must not have committed it to memory

Well that explains why Reddit was so ridiculously pro-porn and porn-riddled in general.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 7 points 1 hour ago

That's cos it's not true. He was a mod of it for a while, but I've not seen any verification of how long that was, and it was at a time when you could just add someone as a mod without them needing to approve it. But he was definitely not its founder.

He did allow it to stick around until the mainstream media started kicking up a fuss about it. That would be bad enough. We don't need to make shit up.

[–] mjr@infosec.pub 4 points 1 hour ago

This seems like one of those cases where you wish both sides could lose. Reddit are up to no good, but lack of identity document demands isn't it.

[–] bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

This will surely stop reddit in it's tracks!

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 hours ago

Cheering on websites getting fined for the reason of internet censorship. I know Spez is a prick but I don’t want the UK cracking down on internet privacy.

We must protest against the labour party’s corruption.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 hours ago

Garbage fine by tyrannical government trying to police what you do online. Stop age verification!

[–] Didntdoit71@feddit.online 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Good. Bury reddit for protecting the pedophiles in the name of corporate greed.

[–] db2@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

The article says Reddit isn’t protecting the privacy of children while contradicting itself by saying it needs age verification for this…. in reality this leads to user profiling and data breaches.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/discord-faces-backlash-over-age-checks-after-data-breach-exposed-70000-ids/

https://techlore.tech/the-free-speech-grift-how-politicians-tricked-you-into-demanding-surveillance/