Sounds like there needs to be a lot more education among people on the Fediverse.

This isn't isolated... they are trying to get similar "online safety" legislation passed in all countries, even in the U.S. -- Sorry, that can't be coincidence. No matter what label they slap on it, you can call it what it is: censorship. The next logical step will be for them to hobble VPNs, because they want to know who you are, where you are, what you are looking at online, when you are looking at it... they will make assumptions about the why part.

I know the rights issue still remains but this might get you access without the nonsense.

Reddit might block you after a while but it comes back. It really wants to track you.

The UK will have to block the Wayback Machine and archive.is/archive.ph as well.

I'm all for child safety, but in realistic practice for actual children, not "blow up all online culture because of fear." These measures to protect corporate "Children™️" who do not exist and are harmed by every single flaw and vice imaginable that real children have dealt with for years before and will continue to do so. Hell, most households kids run the Internet for their parents, so this is being used as a false equivalency for why overreach is needed.

This is how they will try to end social media, amateur websites and citizen ran news reporting in one shot. Propaganda will flow and facts will be sparse, as the Internet becomes a corporate and government ran feed for Billionaire and Political Party goals, not communication.

I'm all for child safety, but in realistic practice for actual children, not "blow up all online culture because of fear." These measures to protect corporate "Children™️" who do not exist and are harmed by every single flaw and vice imaginable that real children have dealt with for years before and will continue to do so. Hell, most households kids run the Internet for their parents, so this is being used as a false equivalency for why overreach is needed.

This is how they will try to end social media, amateur websites and citizen ran news reporting in one shot. Propaganda will flow and facts will be sparse, as the Internet becomes a corporate and government ran feed for state-ran goals.

Use a VPN.

I do think The Online Safety Act is just one of the terrible decisions that the grow ups are making for us youths. Once again boomers are ruining the future of the youths and I'm not for it.

Is safety ever the real intent, looking at the repression from UK Labour is it not more likely that restriction of information and further profiling is behind the so called online safety act.

It can scarcely be about kids safety and mental health as many in UK are living in horror and violence every day, in schools, on the streets and often at home.

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A lot of people said as much, but no one is listening

Same will happen in Australia soon with their teen social media ban.

Their connection to sports.
Connections to extended families
Connections to community
Connections to each other
Ways of expressing themselves
Being artistic
Being able to see official government information particularly in emergencies, when nothing else gets updated as much.

All censored and evaporated.