Tutte le scappatoie sfrenate che le persone usano per superare la legge sulla sicurezza online, quando Ofcom risponde
https://thetab.com/2025/07/28/all-the-unhinged-loopholes-people-are-using-to-get-past-the-online-safety-act-as-ofcom-responds
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Dont think there’s anything unhinged about wanting to circumvent giving your ID to third party companies when we live in a time of the richest and most powerful multinationals routinely getting data stolen.
If the best cybersecurity money can buy isnt good enough Im sure as shit not trusting my ID details with a dubious third party
That’s before even getting into the ridiculous overreach and constant erosion of privacy we as a populace have suffered since 9/11 in all the interests of our “safety”.
Seems theres a formating error in the body of this post.
“All the loopholes people are forced to use to get past the unhinged Online Saftey Act, Ofcom pulls head out of its own arse to regurgitate corporate BS.”
I think thats how it is supposed to read.
You don’t even need to switch countries on your VPN, it will work based in the UK
The problem is that some websites knew people from the UK were going to do this so they decided that it wasn’t worth the risk of having the government then order them to somehow stop people doing this leading to them simply restricting access to the UK
Civitai is one such example where there is no ability to verify your age, they just engaged a blanket ban of anyone from the UK accessing their site and in order to use their site to generate images or download models you need an account and anything you do on that account is added to your history which means if they see a account registered in UK prior to the act still somehow accumulating history they permanently ban the account
And the reason they are doing this is really understandable. The OSA allows the government to levy penalties of 10% of a companies income PER infraction. This means if you have a company the government really don’t like which people are circumventing the law to access then the government can just find 10 infractions, treat them as separate offences and the company has been destroyed overnight
After that news story of all those women’s facial ID photos getting hacked and leaked, it’s fair to assume that these companies DO NOT delete your personal data and any way to circumvent them doing so is fair game.
This has been implemented in such a hamfisted way. Lots of spaces that have nothing to do with porn or gore have been caught up in the ban too, and its not like you verify yourself once and that’s it. Each platform will need verification each time, and I presume whenever you clear your cookies too
On computer: Firefox has built in VPN extensions you can download
On mobile: Opera has a built in VPN
What happens when hackers breach security and blackmail end users? Despite past mistakes, the government remains oblivious, resulting in the destruction of people’s lives.
“Unhinged”
The only unhinged thing here is a government that thinks that providing your full identity documents to third party companies is a safe, normal or reasonable thing to do.
Literally a few weeks after the online safety act came into force, the US app Tea had a database breach that released geotagged ID photos of around 70k users to the public. Regardless of what you thought about the app it’s a stark reminder of the risks these stupid, terribly thought out laws create.
It’s annoying to see every headline seemingly agree with this bullshit. Not wanting to fall victim to the first data breach isn’t unhinged
Normal for anything.
lets look at the data in 12 months and see…
“Parents having a view in terms of whether their kids have got a VPN, and using parental controls and having conversations, feels a really important part of the solution.”
That is what the solution has been all along. Parental controls have been around for over a decade. ISPs have had blocks on this kind of content since I was a kid in the early 2000s. Truly makes you wonder what the act is even for if this is what they’re saying.
Student newspaper referring to ways people highlight the inadequacy of government overreach as “unhinged” is a new one.
Don’t tell me students are in favour of this?
This seems like the sort of thing reddit would have unanimously been against five years ago the fact there’s even a single person defending it now is absolutely crazy to me.
I used an ID from a Google image search to verify my Reddit. There is an indian fellow I found on YouTube that provided his face for the movement mechanism but that didn’t work.
But honestly can they blame us? They claim that the images are deleted once verified, but the ‘Tea’ app claimed it did too.
I just googled Fake UK driving licence and used that
What? You mean people are bypassing a lazy policy that blocks information, never mind porn, that wasn’t thought out at all? Shocking I say. /s
It’s almost as if people resent the idea of giving third party companies their sensitive information.
This was such a terrible piece of law. It’s almost as if UK ministers thought that the Internet was an actual series of tubes.
Am I the only one that thinks this is a fucking unhinged thing for the ofcom online safety director to say?
*“Our research shows that these are not people that are out to find porn – it’s being served up to them in their feeds,” Oliver Griffiths, group director for online safety at Ofcom, told The Sun.
“And we think that these measures are going to have a really big impact in terms of dealing with that particular problem.
“There will be teenagers – dedicated teenagers – who want to find their way to porn, in the same way as people find ways to buy alcohol under 18. They will use VPNs. And actually, I think there’s a really important reflection here. It’s not just us, in terms of making life safer online. Parents having a view in terms of whether their kids have got a VPN, and using parental controls and having conversations, feels a really important part of the solution.”*
Yeah, maybe that should have been the conversation and solution instead of bringing in 3rd party’s to hold our information in this way?
“Yeah, people are gonna use VPNs, but parents can be in charge of that”?
They are aware that it’s only the technologically illiterate that will provide their personal information to these third parties to verify. Absolutely wild.
Like what? Is our government being sponsored by nordvpn? Is fucking nobbleberry gonna pop up and I’m gonna find out this has been an elaborate ad?
Please sign the petition to get this rubbish repealed:
[https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/722903](https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/722903)
“Unhinged” or avoiding massive government overreach.
“NOOOOOOOOOOO! Stop circumventing our draconian surveillance legislation!”
“haha, Death Stranding photo mode go brrr”
Well it would, if Discord’s solution wasn’t totally arsed. Having to teleport to another country just to hang out in my main social space is fucking stupid.
I do wonder if this is going to have a real knock on effect with small time only fans models, I imagine a lot of their exposure was through x and reddit, now they are not visible.
Maybe this will finally kill this bullshit only fans mindset for young girls
This seems like it should be a centrally managed service…
Just playing around with this earlier, there’s loads of pirated porn streaming sites still available and easily accessible, which are presumably lousy with malware and poorly moderated for extreme / illegal content.
So it’s hard to see what could go wrong there.
I think there is unhinged 💩on the internet, that not really good for adult lets alone children. We do need to do better as society, but this is a world wide problem, it needs to be tackled as that. I’m not sure this method/path is correct one.
Nothing unhinged about trying to get around a big restriction of freedom, that isn’t even going to achieve its stated purpose of protecting kids. At best, they’ll use VPNs, at worse they’ll go to completely unregulated sites, with far worse content than the likes of pornhub.
This might be the one thing that the left and right (mostly) agree on.
Fuck giving Palantir my data
Is it unhinged though. In what world am I sending Reddit a scan of my ID ? That’s what they’re asking for, not a pic which is already bad enough, but a scan of my actual ID!
I didn’t even send that to amazon when I had to get into my old account, I just said bye bye to the account.