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Hold on, a few weeks ago – me, a UK resident, had to go through age verification for Bluesky. ~What's the difference? bsky.social/about/blog/0...

aug 22, 2025, 9:24 pm • 23 1

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I guess the UK = Mississippi is now a thing. VERY sorry.

aug 22, 2025, 9:33 pm • 2 0 • view

It's in the blog.

How This Differs From Our Approach in Other Places Mississippi’s new law and the UK’s Online Safety Act (OSA) are very different. Bluesky follows the OSA in the UK. There, Bluesky is still accessible for everyone, age checks are required only for accessing certain content and features, and Bluesky does not know and does not track which UK users are under 18. Mississippi’s law, by contrast, would block everyone from accessing the site—teens and adults—unless they hand over sensitive information, and once they do, the law in Mississippi requires Bluesky to keep track of which users are children.

aug 22, 2025, 9:36 pm • 45 7 • view

This still isn't true, as you still need id in the UK for it

aug 22, 2025, 10:40 pm • 2 0 • view

the age verification in the UK is done by another company - BlueSky just gets given the answer to whether the user is over 18, they don't work that out themselves

aug 23, 2025, 12:13 pm • 2 0 • view

Thanks.

aug 22, 2025, 9:57 pm • 4 0 • view

Thanks for posting.

aug 23, 2025, 6:56 am • 3 0 • view

it's a human rights violation for anyone to have to go through it

aug 22, 2025, 10:58 pm • 1 0 • view

If you don’t care about seeing adult content you don’t have to do it. Mississippi law requires it for ALL users.

aug 22, 2025, 9:32 pm • 5 1 • view

Ah, okay and thanks.

aug 22, 2025, 9:56 pm • 1 0 • view