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Oasus Plainsview :verified:
Oasus Plainsview :verified:
@itsOasus@pawb.fun  ·  activity timestamp 7 months ago

So this is how Newgrounds is apparently handling age verification RE: UK's Online Safety Act.

Their ultimate solution is... unique.

Regarding age verification, here is our current plan for UK users:

1. If your account is more than ten years old, we will assume you are currently over 18. This is in line with one of the methods of effective age assurance, which involves paying a third party to match your email address against some sort of database of scraped data, which determines if your email has been in use for a long time. We have our own long-term data, so we'll use that instead.

2. If your account ever bought Supporter status with a credit card and we can confirm that with the payment processor, we will assume you are over 18 because you need to be 18 in the UK to have a credit card.

3. If your account ever bought Supporter status more than two years ago, we will assume you are over 18 because you need to be at least 16 to have a Paypal or debit card in the UK (assuming we are right about this).

4. If none of the above applies, you will have the opportunity to pay a small one-time fee via credit card as confirmation of your age.

We are not planning to offer things like ID checks or facial recognition because these require us to pay a third party to confirm each person. Because Newgrounds runs at a loss and doesn't monetize users very well, this is not an option for us. As Wired noted, Big Tech is the only winner of the Online Safety Act because smaller websites can't afford to keep up with this sort of regulation.
Regarding age verification, here is our current plan for UK users: 1. If your account is more than ten years old, we will assume you are currently over 18. This is in line with one of the methods of effective age assurance, which involves paying a third party to match your email address against some sort of database of scraped data, which determines if your email has been in use for a long time. We have our own long-term data, so we'll use that instead. 2. If your account ever bought Supporter status with a credit card and we can confirm that with the payment processor, we will assume you are over 18 because you need to be 18 in the UK to have a credit card. 3. If your account ever bought Supporter status more than two years ago, we will assume you are over 18 because you need to be at least 16 to have a Paypal or debit card in the UK (assuming we are right about this). 4. If none of the above applies, you will have the opportunity to pay a small one-time fee via credit card as confirmation of your age. We are not planning to offer things like ID checks or facial recognition because these require us to pay a third party to confirm each person. Because Newgrounds runs at a loss and doesn't monetize users very well, this is not an option for us. As Wired noted, Big Tech is the only winner of the Online Safety Act because smaller websites can't afford to keep up with this sort of regulation.
Regarding age verification, here is our current plan for UK users: 1. If your account is more than ten years old, we will assume you are currently over 18. This is in line with one of the methods of effective age assurance, which involves paying a third party to match your email address against some sort of database of scraped data, which determines if your email has been in use for a long time. We have our own long-term data, so we'll use that instead. 2. If your account ever bought Supporter status with a credit card and we can confirm that with the payment processor, we will assume you are over 18 because you need to be 18 in the UK to have a credit card. 3. If your account ever bought Supporter status more than two years ago, we will assume you are over 18 because you need to be at least 16 to have a Paypal or debit card in the UK (assuming we are right about this). 4. If none of the above applies, you will have the opportunity to pay a small one-time fee via credit card as confirmation of your age. We are not planning to offer things like ID checks or facial recognition because these require us to pay a third party to confirm each person. Because Newgrounds runs at a loss and doesn't monetize users very well, this is not an option for us. As Wired noted, Big Tech is the only winner of the Online Safety Act because smaller websites can't afford to keep up with this sort of regulation.
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Tim Chase
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@gumnos@mastodon.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp 7 months ago
@neil Seemed like this post by@itsOasus@pawb.fun might interest you if it hasn't already crossed your radar
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bignose
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@bignose@sw-development-is.social  ·  activity timestamp 7 months ago

Over at Chinwag, they have responded to #Australia calls for #AgeRestriction on #SocialMedia, with a characteristically Aussie policy.

https://chinwag.au/verification/

@itsOasus @chinwagnews

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@jackeric@beige.party  ·  activity timestamp 7 months ago
@itsOasus I saw some organisation saying if the user was suspected of being under 18, they could verify their age for a small fee by providing a verification token (a bottle of gin) from a trusted third party with established age verification protocols (the off-licence)
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Peter Brown
Peter Brown
@peterbrown@mastodon.scot  ·  activity timestamp 7 months ago
@itsOasus not only unique, but brilliant!
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