Bluesky users in the UK can verify their age using their face, ID, or payment card.

Somewhere in a government building in the UK: We did it, Patrick…

  • masterofn001@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    17 days ago

    Thanks for the information.

    I found this specific clause very … porous.

    Clarification — commercial purpose 6 For greater certainty, for the purpose of section 5, an organization that incidentally and not deliberately provides a service that is used to search for, transmit, download, store or access content on the Internet that is alleged to constitute pornographic material does not make available pornographic material on the Internet for commercial purposes.

    So… I guess Bing will once again be my goto incidental indeliberate porn search engine. And reddit. And Lemmy.

    https://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/45-1/bill/S-209/first-reading

    Surprisingly, a conservative senator had a fairly well reasoned, and cautious, (although still supportive), response speech.

    https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/008db_2025-06-10-e#66

    It still has a long way to goto get through senate committee and house readings and committees and all that. Still, might be a good time to scrape all the porn.

    • Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      17 days ago

      Look at Bill S-210 from the last Parliament, it made it to 2nd reading in the House. There is cause for concern.

      I appreciate your dive into the topic though. Michael Geist has more info on his website.