UK Online Safety Act affects console users

Rich-Allen1976 · Post by **Rich-Allen1976** » 08 Aug 2025, 11:03

UK Online Safety Act 2025

Contrary to what the government are saying, it's not about protecting kids, it's George Orwell's 1984 coming true IMO.

I just nad a nightmare last night taking a selfie on my phone with the Xbox app to verify my age,,, You what? I've been using the Xbox for over 20 years with NO problems before now!

I couldn't get the camera to centre on my face to take the shot.

It will affect gamers who want to play stuff like Call of Duty and other age rated games.

Post by **lolin** » 08 Aug 2025, 15:04

i hope every UKer just gets a VPN or another way around the face scanning because this law is total BS

Post by **Ojisama** » 08 Aug 2025, 21:08

Apparently, the facial recognition software isn't that good. It has been accepting game avatars as faces of real people.

Post by **LikkleMel** » 08 Aug 2025, 22:39

See, people say you have to do facial recognition, I didn't. I just signed into my Google account and just let me through.

But I do believe that the "it is for the safety of the children" is a big excuse that is what parents should be doing. There isn't an excuse now of "Oh I don't know how the internet works" because most new parents now would've grown up with the internet and should learn from their mistakes.

UnmeiNoTenshi · Post by **UnmeiNoTenshi** » 09 Aug 2025, 00:53

Kids will always find a way round any 'protections' put in place.

Like when sites first started doing age checks by asking people to input their date of birth, didn't take long to figure out the way around that and most kids online already know about VPNs and other such things already.

Servo · Post by **Servo** » 09 Aug 2025, 02:11

The Only way to protect kids is to have a an active friendly relationship with them not a controlling parent relationship, We all have been kids we know how it was like , you can't protect kids you be their friend , you tell them right from wrong and you just let them judge things from there on
I did not do a lot of bad things as a kid cause my mum told me right from wrong and from than know placed absolute trust in me
That trust she had was the the thing that always protected me not her surveillance

Rich-Allen1976 · Post by **Rich-Allen1976** » 09 Aug 2025, 09:57

lolin wrote: ↑
08 Aug 2025, 15:04
i hope every UKer just gets a VPN or another way around the face scanning because this law is total BS

Actually, VPNs are THE most searched for app since the Act was announced last week apparently.

Just comply with the law for Christ sake.

Rich-Allen1976 · Post by **Rich-Allen1976** » 09 Aug 2025, 09:59

Ojisama wrote: ↑
08 Aug 2025, 21:08
Apparently, the facial recognition software isn't that good. It has been accepting game avatars as faces of real people.

Indeed, I tried to take a selfie on the Xbox app the other night, my phone wouldn't place my face in the centre of the camera to take the pic, I had to ask the staff to help me (which for once, they actually did)

Rich-Allen1976 · Post by **Rich-Allen1976** » 09 Aug 2025, 12:18

LikkleMel wrote: ↑
08 Aug 2025, 22:39
See, people say you have to do facial recognition, I didn't. I just signed into my Google account and just let me through.

But I do believe that the "it is for the safety of the children" is a big excuse that is what parents should be doing. There isn't an excuse now of "Oh I don't know how the internet works" because most new parents now would've grown up with the internet and should learn from their mistakes.

What about those of us who are the wrong side of 40 who have Parents in their 70s? Back when the Internet in general hadn't been invented yet and the nearest to social media was writing into Pop mags etc.