The conservative-controlled British government is now warning its citizens if it doesn’t shape up, it’s gonna have to soon use a passport or credit card details to access the internet. The British government wants to assure that websites are adhering to age restriction laws, so it says it will target the biggies first, and it they can’t self-police, then the British people will all have to show their passports or credit card information to the website as proof of their legal access age.
It goes without saying that sites like Facebook and TikTok are sure to be targeted first. Perhaps they’ll follow through with it and drive all the British people off of social media altogether. Then the rest of the world can watch as Britain miraculously regains her sanity and starts acting like an adult human being again. Ahhh, a boy can dream.
UK.gov threatens to make adults give credit card details for access to Facebook or TikTok
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Adults will have to hand over credit card or passport details before they can access social media sites, the British government threatened this morning.
Internet use age verification – first floated and then abandoned via the country’s 2017 Digital Economy Act – will return in the UK’s Online Safety Bill, digital minister Chris Philp MP has vowed, linking the technology, widely criticised by privacy activists, to protecting children from pornography websites.
Websites targeted by the government will be forced to submit to “a new legal duty” requiring them “to put robust checks in place to ensure their users are 18 years old or over.”
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