An update on the OFCOM situation: As you know, censorship around the world has been ramping up at an alarming pace. OFCOM, the UK’s communications regulator, has singled out our community, demanding compliance with their Online Safety Act despite our minimal UK presence. This is a blatant overreach, and they have been sending letters pressuring us to comply with their censorship agenda.
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I wouldn't recommend it. Imagine the fallout from that CloudFlare data breach if every single member's identity and financial information became available over the internet. The poor BBC would have to hire extra camera crews to make sure they had enough people to leap out of the bushes at all of us. (Is it wrong to be amused at the thought of what would likely happen if some annoying "correspondent" hid in the shrubs of a house in a Stand Your Ground state? It's probably wrong. But still funny.)
You are kidding, right? Desperate people will always take desperate measures to relieve themselves, it's not something you can control in the extreme, it's like addiction, you cannot expect such a simple answer as "don't use this" because you barely have power over it. This argument wouldn't crumble if they could control their suicidality in first place, which they can't and people here should be the first understanding it isn't as simple as that. It's ironically done with you in mind the most selfish answer here.
This but unironically. By adding verification you are making bigger risks for already vulnerable people and as mentioned earlier it won't even work.
I don't care that my answer is selfish, I still believe it is more selfish to want to use this site while knowing that doing so puts it at risk of being shut down. Regardless of my age, if I knew that my using it was putting it in danger I would simply stop. There's being understanding and then there's encouraging the downfall of the very same place that helps so much. I believe the minors' status as the most vulnerable people is exactly the problem here. Their naïveté and tendency undeveloped empathy are just some reasons why the adults in charge weaponize them in their efforts to take this site down for others. I'm aware that my whining about their being here isn't going to stop them all from coming, I only hope that some of them will see the error of their ways and at least wait to sign up. That's all.
At least we agree on this, but the real point is you are seeing this from an adult mind who can somewhat control himself.
Did you intend to say "I'm minor"? Is "a" used before an adjective?
I'm sad because young people, especially minors, are not considered to deserve any respect - their feelings are considered to have little importance in this world. Actually people use the word "crybaby" as an insult!
This is a point that modern childcare and education is grappling with. To raise young people as confident, healthy and independent, they need to be shown respect from day 1. A lot of stuff that used to be acceptable, like using a demeaning tone when addressing children, is no longer good practice.
But the thing is since minors lied on this site. Even if this site began requiring evidence of you not being a minor they might just use their parents or older siblings things to remain here
