this post was submitted on 31 Jul 2025
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Just go on Facebook reels or YouTube shorts and "thirst" for a while, meaning stop scrolling whenever you see a scantily dressed girl or something similar and eventually the algorithm will serve you just straight up smut.

And once they're labelled as porn sites, they'd lobby hard to get the law repealed, rather than actually pay for adequate moderation.

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[–] manualoverride@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago

They really don’t care at all, YouTube is already trialing age verification, these companies have regulatory hoops to jump through in every country they operate in, it’s easy for them to comply and it will have a negligible impact on revenue.

You should write to your MP, send them an email, call them of visit one of their surgeries.

When the BBC started requiring a login to view the content I pay for, I stopped using it. When Facebook were neck deep in the Cambridge Analytica scandal I deleted my account, and when Reddit started their API extortion, I moved to Lemmy.

If you are here you are also a digital nomad like me, if you let the politicians and corporations carve up the internet then soon we will have nowhere left to move. Time to make a stand.

Youtube is already doing an age verification bullshit. So they would literally not care.

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 4 points 1 day ago

They are already subject to the regulation.

[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

We just need to ditch the big companies and use only the underground internet - the Fediverse, Tor, piracy, SimpleX Chat, cryptocurrency (I know people hate it for some reason but it puts payments in the hands of the people)