Source: https://infosec.exchange/users/isotopp/statuses/115059833470035521
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Age Verification
Due to applicable UK laws, websites must verify the age of visitors using official ID to confirm they are at least 18 years old. We are a small site and unfortunately do not have the resources to implement such a system, so we are unable to serve users in the UK.
We are not required to verify your location, so please confirm below:
[I am not in the UK] [I am in the UK]
Frankly this is a comically brilliant and absolutely outstanding example of engineering malicious compliance
Sadly, will not actually be sufficient. They put the full burden of this shit on the site owner, all of it, without exception.
You could host in a country like Cameroon, they won’t give a shit and EU won’t bother going after them. They could geoblock the whole country however.
Meh you just say “we don’t serve users from your country, we are not bound by your laws. users from the UK are breaking our tos”
This already happens occasionally with the EU’s GDPR.
It’s pretty sufficient. I’m not British, I don’t sell products in Britain, I do not have British assets, and I’m compliant with all American laws. They can levy all of the fines they want but I’m not obligated to care.
The Great Firewall of TERF Island
we can compromise and just firewall jk rowlings house
Would the firewall replace her mold wall?
Okay, just set the old hag on fire and call it a day.
UK left the EU, so the EU won’t be doing anything regardless of your host country.