Malicious Compliance
People conforming to the letter, but not the spirit, of a request. For now, this includes text posts, images, videos and links. Please ensure that the “malicious compliance” aspect is apparent - if you’re making a text post, be sure to explain this part; if it’s an image/video/link, use the “Body” field to elaborate.
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We ENCOURAGE posts about events that happened to you, or someone you know.
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We ACCEPT (for now) reposts of good malicious compliance stories (from other platforms) which did not happen to you or someone you knew. Please use a [REPOST] tag in such situations.
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We DO NOT ALLOW fiction, or posts that break site-wide rules.
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I don't believe guidelines are above the actual law.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1k81lj8nvpo
Ofcom is the regulator so I’m guessing they read the law a little more closely than you. And BBC states that the government explicitly told them it would be illegal.
Reddit is super-screwed then because its full of users doing exactly that anywhere this topic comes up.
I very much doubt it has anything to do with being a citizen. The law would apply to the company making the statements itself.
"platforms must not host, share or permit content encouraging use of VPNs to get around age checks."
I'll also note that this doesn't seem to even be in the official documentation.