UK PEOPLE: this is REALLY IMPORTANT.

[sophieschmieg@infosec.exchange]

@cstross it also means banning anyone under age from owning/renting a server in a different country, with very much the same implications for people over the age limit, since setting up a VPN endpoint is reasonably easy enough for your average technically inclined 16 year old. Oh and also, it outlaws TOR, if taken to its logical conclusion.

[cstamp@mastodon.social]

@cstross Haven't adults clued into the fact that trying to force kids into boxes never works out? On top of the privacy issues.

[fooker@infosec.exchange]

@cstross as a kid growing up in europe and taught again and again about the resistance, I'd always thought that my lack of physical prowess would mean I'd be mostly useless if it ever happened again. But now that it's rearing it's head all I can hear is my mother saying "you'll never amount to anything spending all your days on that computer". Look at me now mom, my knowledge may just save the free world.

[rrb@infosec.exchange]

@sophieschmieg @cstross When I was a kid and somebody would ask my parents if I was old enough for a given book, they would say: "If he is innocent, he won't understand and it won't hurt him. If he isn't, and understands it, it won't hurt him."

[jbqueru@floss.social]

@cstross Soon you'll need to get your age verified before you can use an age-verification service.

[falken@qoto.org]

@cstross @jbqueru who's going to verify my verification though?

[stevefenton@mastodon.social]

@cstross I've written to my MP about this already, so an easy decision to add my signature to the petition.

[digitalstefan@fosstodon.org]

@cstross Wait... presumably age verification shouldn't be required if payment method = credit card, right?

Only over 18's can obtain a credit card.

Anyone age 16-18 is in a pickle though.

[oschonrock@mastodon.social]

@ahltorp @cstross @Fonant @PeterSommerlad

indeed.. that, plus the inconvenience of having to use VPNs etc would pretty much kill it dead within a couple of months IMO.

[only_ohm@mas.to]

@dan @jaawerth @cstross @Nicovel0

It seems to have '“relevant VPN service” means a service of providing, in the course of a business, to a consumer, a virtual private network for accessing the internet'. TOR is not provided in the course of a business, so I guess it's out of scope.

[only_ohm@mas.to]

@dan @jaawerth @cstross @Nicovel0

Recursing that, it also defines "consumer" as a person not acting in the course of a business, so workplace VPNs are out of scope too.