This seems like a misrepresentation of OSA more so than the parent post. It prevents people accessing content they may well need. Look at some of the subreddits being blocked if you want to see how far they go. Subs about periods, sex education, stopping smoking, suicide prevention, lgbtq. Not sure how you justify that nobody under 18 would ever have a need to access these things.

When you have to prove you're a child you have to prove you're and adult. The privacy implications of that are why it's a police state problem. It eliminates the anonymity and allows for perfect personal tracking of any wrongthink you may do.

It's also not the only thing the UK government has done to become a police state by a long shot. UK is 1984 adjacent in quite a few ways.

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IanCal 4 days ago | parent [-]

Again that's a second order thing as I said, and those are choices by reddit - not mandated by the OSA.

> When you have to prove you're a child you have to prove you're and adult.

Again, not required by the OSA.

	▲	ragequittah 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		People interpreting the rules as they see fit and going too far was always the plan with this kind of thing. How do you keep content from children if you don't know if they're a child? What's the alternative to getting proof of being an adult?
	▲	salawat 3 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
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