Alternative title: ID verification to be required for all UK citizens to use social media

like_any_other 7 days ago | parent | next [-]

And as usual, no pro-privacy or pro-freedom groups were asked to give a comment for the article. I guess nobody objects on those grounds!

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jonplackett 7 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Well I needed a good reason to quit social media. This can be it.

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stavros 7 days ago | parent [-]

He posted, on a social media website.

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drnick1 7 days ago | parent | next [-]

HN is not "social media," in a conventional sense, far from it. For one, it is completely anonymous, at least if you want it to be.

	▲	davb 7 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		But under Ofcom rules, it is social media if we are to assume that they’ll apply the same scoping as the Online Safety Act does for user-to-user services. I think a lot of comments here assume that only sites like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Twitter/X would be in scope, but I see no reason why they wouldn’t use the same definitions from the OSA (essentially any site where user-to-user communication and content posting takes place, including forums and aggregators).
	▲	pyb 6 days ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		If Reddit is "social media", so is HN.
	▲	Natfan 6 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		hn is a user-to-user service

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demorro 7 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Which was not contradictory, as they were saying they wanted to quit. I also want to quit all social media, including hackernews, in the same way I want to quit eating Mcdonalds and getting high all the time.

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danielrmay 7 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I went back to the UK a few weeks ago for an old friend's wedding, and the ID verification process shocked me.