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Ofcom announces new rules to keep children safe online (www.theguardian.com)

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Full details from Ofcom are available here:

New rules for a safer generation of children online

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

Effective age checks. The riskiest services must use highly effective age assurance to identify which users are children. This means they can protect them from harmful material, while preserving adults’ rights to access legal content. That may involve preventing children from accessing the entire site or app, or only some parts or kinds of content. If services have minimum age requirements but are not using strong age checks, they must assume younger children are on their service and ensure they have an age-appropriate experience.

That's what it's really about.

It's not about protecting children, it's about ensuring that adults can't use the internet anonymously.