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delaminator ◴[] No.45693014[source]
The UK's Online Safety Act requires website owners to verify ages but it doesn't prescribe specific methods for doing so.

It is the vendor supplying the website he is visiting that told him to do that.

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1. Hizonner ◴[] No.45695343[source]
> The UK's Online Safety Act requires website owners to verify ages but it doesn't prescribe specific methods for doing so.

... and just ignores the fact that there are no sane or remotely appropriate ways to implement that. As well as the fact that it's a silly goal to begin with.

> It is the vendor supplying the website he is visiting that told him to do that.

... after making a guess as to what would be the least bad way of implementing this foolish mandate.