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NomNom@feddit.uk to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish ·
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Reddit fined £14 million by UK data watchdog over age check failings

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NomNom@feddit.uk to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish ·
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Reddit fined £14m by UK data watchdog over age verification checks
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The UK's data watchdog said the failings meant children could be exposed to harmful material online.
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  • n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca
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    Fuck REddit and Fuck the UK

  • Kindness is Punk@lemmy.ca
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    Just simply stop using them all, yes I know I’m being reductive, I don’t care, I would sooner live like it’s 1998 then give these careless ass private us companies my ID

    Fuck Reddit, fuck D&D beyond, fuck discord, fuck Facebook.

    Find me on Lemmy or at my house, I guess.

    • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.world
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      or at my house,

      KNOCK, KNOCK

      • Kindness is Punk@lemmy.ca
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        Come on in, we’re playing retro games and curried tofu over rice.

        • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.world
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          ahhhh, seriously knock knock let me in, that sounds delicious. If you’re not veggie, I’ll bring my family’s kedgeree[1]. :)


          1. which has nothing to do with the dish you find when you search for recipes by that name, where our recipe came from is a mystery, but it uses S&B Japanese curry ↩︎

  • HollowedFleshwalker@lemmy.world
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    This weird government obsession with giving private companies their users’ personal IDs is so infuriating…

    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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      It’s not a government obsession. It is capitalisms — surveillance capitalisms — obsession. Our governments are almost entirely corrupted by capitalist interests. Their success IS “national security”.

      An authoritarian/fascist dictatorship was always the guaranteed end goal of the military industrial complex, secret police, the monetization of attention, and I fear capitalism in general.

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        Vpns requiring age verification to use soon:

        https://mastodon.online/@mullvadnet/116087059413472819

        Age Verification of Windows, MacOS, iOS, and Android:

        https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/california-enacts-digital-age-3957871/

        What most of these sick fucks really want:

        https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/germanys-merz-calls-real-names-211340863.html

        Decade of the Linux Desktop & Old/Federated Web

        Alot of idiots will lie down and take it because they have “nothing to hide”,

        I won’t and you shouldn’t either.

        Mass boycotts are going to have to become a normalized thing.

  • SuspciousCarrot78@lemmy.world
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    Let me be the first to say:

    Fuck reddit.

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      However you won’t be the last:

      Fuck reddit.

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    Note, this is ICO not Ofcom, so it’s to do with data collection on minors and not the Online Safety Act.

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