• estutweh@aussie.zone
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    7 months ago

    Will libraries be requiring age verification to access encyclopaedias and other non-fiction material? Because of the children, of course!

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    7 months ago

    Coincidentally Wikipedia is the only website I can think of that I’d actually be remotely comfortable with having my identity.

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    7 months ago

    Here’s one way to fix this that might even overturn the law. Turn off Wikipedia in the UK. Put a big banner up on the homepage that says, we have turned off Wikipedia in your country because of your government. Here’s how to use a VPN to access our content.

    Edit: Make it apologetic and conciliatory. Like, we’re sorry, we’ve had to disable Wikipedia in your region because of your government’s draconian policies. If you would like to visit our content, please use a VPN. If you need help learning to use a VPN and then link to a here’s how page

    • FoundFootFootage78@lemmy.ml
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      7 months ago

      It’s illegal to recommend using a VPN or teach people how to use a VPN in order to get around these age-check laws.