Re: Look at last time.
From what I'm seeing on Twitter from the experts & other interested parties is that safe tech companies are lobbying the government hard about verifying ID online. It won't just be age verification for porn; it could well be ID verification for all websites deemed not child friendly. The Australians have just passed their own version of the Online Safety Bill (they even called it that) so hastily it had spelling mistakes. They may well require passports & driving licenses to join social media. Yet their version of the law isn't as far-reaching as the UK's. This really is a frightening piece of legislation. It is really hard to understate how profound the impact would be to user-generated content (since that's what's affected most by this) online.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
