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Malicious Compliance

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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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[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 12 points 1 week ago (17 children)

Source? Cause mine (https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/50 aka the fucking law) doesn't say anything like that.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Section 4.37 of Ofcom's Guidance on Highly Effective Age Assurance for Part 3 Services:

In addition, service providers should not publish content on their service that directs or encourages UK users to circumvent the age assurance process or the access controls, for example by providing information about or links to a virtual private network (VPN) which may be used by children to circumvent the relevant processes.

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Ofcom is the designated regulator and has the power of enforcement. The law doesn't define what age verification means, only that it much be 'highly effective' (Section 12 (6)). It is therefore left to Ofcom to set out in its Code of Practices (Section 41 (3)) what 'highly effective age verification' means, which is what this guidance is. This isn't Ofcom being nice, this is them telling you how they're going to enforce the law.

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 3 points 6 days ago

Nobody is above law. If UK courts are not entirely corrupted, they'll rule according to the law. This happens all the time with law enforcement enforcing more than the law says.

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