1w ago

Reddit’s UK users must now prove they’re 18 to view many types of content

arstechnica.com

Reddit’s UK users must now prove they’re 18 to view adult content

Reddit hires company to verify user age with selfie or photo of government ID.

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1w ago

Reddit’s UK users must now prove they’re 18 to view many types of content

arstechnica.com /tech-policy/2025/07/reddit-starts-verifying-ages-of-uk-users-to-comply-with-child-safety-law/

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1w ago

Reddit’s UK users must now prove they’re 18 to view many types of content

arstechnica.com /tech-policy/2025/07/reddit-starts-verifying-ages-of-uk-users-to-comply-with-child-safety-law/

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Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
- Yes and yes, but in this case you should be angry at UK.
If a website requires me to verify my age, I'll stop using that website. If an app requires it, I'll either stop using that app, or use a VPN, but there's no way in hell I'm doing the verification process.
- I think this might be a massive gift to people who want the internet to remain free and unrestricted.
  The more people you drive into the underground, the less well you'll be able to regulate. Usually, it's a cautionary tale about carelessly over-strict regulation. But, I guess it can also be an uplifting tale about carelessly over-strict regulation, depending on what you're trying to regulate. Lord knows, we need to be teaching people how to dodge around local internet restrictions and monitoring right now.
  
  Unfortunately most people don't think like you and I. Reddit wants the masses to feed AI, and they'll get them. They don't care about the "fringe" elements. They want consensus. Hence, all the bans.
  FFS, if we think reddit is bad, what about the billions still on FaceBook? I literally flinch if I land there on accident. FUCK! GAH! It's repulsive to me, yet here we are.
  
  I hope you’re right!
There are numerous tools already out there for parents to use to monitor and censor what their kids see online. Schools have been using it since the Internet came out and it's only gotten more robust over the years. Not only that, but kids always figure out a way around this shit and will continue to do so until the end of time because that's just what they do. The only thing this does is punish everyone and implement more surveillance. And since people are people and kids are kids, there will be workarounds within days even without a VPN.
- The only thing this does is punish everyone and implement more surveillance.
  Tories: Precisely.
I'd prove I'm over 18 by purchasing a VPN subscription.
- I was gonna say all this is going to do is make a load of people start using VPNs, who would have otherwise had no reason to. Therefore making the surveillance they want to do even harder

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