On Friday, the UK Government rolled out new measures first introduced with the Online Safety Act 2023 that requires services to verify users' ages to access certain content. Over the weekend, a petition emerged calling for its repeal. Today, said petition has been signed 387,330… 387,331... let's just say nearly 388,000 times and counting. But the UK Government doesn't want to hear it.
"The Government has no plans to repeal the Online Safety Act, and is working closely with Ofcom to implement the Act as quickly and effectively as possible to enable UK users to benefit from its protections."
