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cherryteastain on July 26, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: The UK’s new age-gating rules are easy to bypass

It's just iteration N of a series of power grabs to expand the panopticon of mass surveillance on the internet under the guise of 'but think about the children!!!'.

pyman on July 26, 2025 [flagged] [2 more]

Wait, what? High school students cannot buy assault rifles in the UK? not even a 9mm? And they can't watch porn, or buy alcohol or tobacco?

So by your logic, the UK isn't a free country. And regulators just hate children?

tomhow on July 28, 2025 | [–]

Please don't post flamebait like this on HN.

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