Xbox -Spieler in Großbritannien müssen ihr Alter überprüfen, um den Zugang zu sozialen Funktionen zu erhalten – Dexerto
https://www.dexerto.com/gaming/xbox-players-in-the-uk-must-verify-their-age-to-keep-access-to-social-features-3231452/?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwL4KjljbGNrAvgqNGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAAEeorObr4yOvxMgiNmeP2x1wnND9kmi_3ZJ00-FN120RsS9FmT8twwgudyYUq8_aem_p8zNbjJgXNQecNgMll8klA
Von springheeledjack69
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What a fucking insane situation.
Genuinely considering my vote for labour over this, might vote with the masses just to watch it burn.
The Online Safety Act really is demonstrating the law of unintended consequences.
I don’t think they’re going to repeal it. I think it’s a coordinated effort across multiple countries – it’s no coincidence that this is happening here, the US, Europe, Australia etc. etc.
This is an authoritarian power grab. I suspect they’ll use the ‘age verification’ information they’ve gathered to cross reference against suspected dissidents to act on them. How far the umbrella of the term ‘dissident’ spreads is currently unknown.
They started with „we need to stop kids seeing porn“ and now they’re at „17 year olds can’t speak on the telephone to strangers if the telephone is part of a scary computer.“ They do realise this age group works actual jobs, right?
It’s incredible how a policy written by Nadine Dorries ended up causing so many headaches for Labour.
Such a dumb law too because not even the supporters like it, they wanted social media to be checked and that’s the one place that’s being let off from this.
All Labour needed to do was agree that it was dumb, blame the Tories for passing it in 2023 and move on promising to work on a more comprehensive law that tackles the problem without infringing on liberties (aka lie and do nothing).
Don’t think that Xbox (and other services) can necessarily be criticised for reacting to ridiculous legislation.
It’s just extremely stupid but somewhat out of their hands.
The most overreaching, vague act ever made thus far. I really hope Labour lose thousands of votes over this. Yes the Tories passed this but this current government looked at this act and saw no issues. They’re absolute clowns.
If my account was a person it’d be old enough to verify its own age, I’ve been on live since 2006. They try and make me do it and I’ll buy a PlayStation
Great.
Can’t wait to verify my PS account which is probably old enough to fucking drink at this point.
Thank god I sold my Xbox ages ago. Gaming is dead now.
My payment by credit card confirms that I am of age?
“Xbox users in the UK will soon need to verify their age to continue using key social features like messaging and voice chat with people outside their friends list”
So public lobby stuff you won’t be able to use.
I did wonder what would happen to gaming services like PlayStation Plus, Steam and Xbox Live
The worst thing is that unless they do periodic check this is pointless as anyone can use an account so you know its coming going to be asked to prove your age everytime you log in or try to do anything not just once
I really don’t understand why everyone is getting so hysterical about this. Not even a fan of this Labour government at all but it seems like mass hysteria has ensued because it’s very slightly more difficult for everyone to watch porn and for people to groom kids. 🤷♂️
Same as Spotify. I pay a direct debit to Microsoft every month. That should be verification enough. No kids in my household. Sick of this unnecessary bullshit
I’m a labour voter and seriously can’t see myself voting for them now. This bill is causing so much hassle and annoyance while they virtue signal to hide that it’s just about control
This is pointless. Daddy will simply verify the account and let his 5 year old play.
Project 2025 wasn’t something they used to scare Americans into voting for Kamala. It’s a real distopian shit show that’s happening, and it’s happening globally.
Every party sucks ass no point voting they are all useless
This is so annoying. The UK has been on the downhill like many places for a long time, lately its been only getting worse but the age verification thing is annoying me. Reddit already is asking me for it, and now XBOX?? C’mon. Its crazy this is what tips me over the edge haha but I am not even kidding. Why waste time with this, there are way more important things the goverment can be doing. Bunch of fools
This thread is wild. Conspiracy theorists are more common than I realised.
Right after they say they are letting 16 year old vote?
Sounds like those that lobby our government are looking to get us to vote reform so they can go full ~~right~~ reich. Also known as reich up the pedo cheetos arse.
I hope this gets even worse for us, we REALLY deserve it.
Good ol English, always ready to bend over and lube up to take it up the arse.
Stiff upper lips lads, tally ho, better not say anything and be rude
It is really absurd that 16-17 year olds are old enough to vote, but not old enough to talk to someone online.
Goodbye xbox.
I haven’t looked at porn or played online for ages.
So I purchased house party on PC instead.
Santisfied.
Judge me all you want.
> online safety act is to prevent kids from accessing porn
Is being used to age gate absolutely everything
There’s absolutely no reason why the state should be involved in this topic, especially not when there are obviously better solutions. The age at which a person should be allowed to watch porn is absolutely a parental responsibility not a state responsibility. All the main providers give parental control features so the state getting involved is completely unnecessary.
If they want to do something meaningful but not offensive and privacy invading, they should mandate that the parental controls ISPs provide are stronger and more featureful and/or that the default is parental controls on for new accounts and for new devices to the router – a bit of nudge theory that worked very well with pensions being opt out rather than opt in. Some even already do this.
Then leave parents alone to make their own decisions.
A policy that causes the majority of the population to hand over their private information for the “safety” of a smaller part of the population is clearly nonsensical and authoritarian. Especially when there are solutions as above that could achieve the same, without the privacy invasion.
The redditor drama around this stuff is really funny to watch. Genuinely great entertainment. Keep it up!
I’d just like to highlight one thing about this.
Xbox/Microsoft provide age verification through a credit card check or mobile provider check. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO GIVE THEM YOUR ID.
This is a completely pro consumer move and should be the standard the law set out.
So, let me just understand something here. Instagram, tiktok and snap don’t get any restrictions at all, but fucking xbox does? Half these kids get their drugs from snap these days, Instagram promotes so much hate and negativity, which ruins a teens mental health, and tiktok is awful for attention spans, especially for a teen with a developing brain.
But nooo, xbox is the problem here.
Social features, but not the games themselves? You have to prove you’re 18 to chat, but not to buy GTA6?
My Microsoft account could legally buy alcohol, they’ll still try and have me upload ID.
Well I have just had my identity stolen from someone hacking into my Microsoft account so they can fuck right off
This is crazy, along with everything else affected, and my comments elsewhere have made clear my opinion of it.
However, with some tweaking it could actually protect a lot of children in a roundabout way.
As a child I was intelligent, knew more about computers than even most adults (okay, it was the 90s) and was able to bypass any local or network restrictions to get to where I wanted and thought I had a good understanding of how the online word worked – the same will be true of children and young people now, except it’s much easier for people to find VPNs/proxies.
Despite that I was groomed in an online chat room in a way that led to real-life abuse.
Children are still being groomed today, not just on Facebook and Insta, but Snapchat which is seen as a haven for young people to escape mainstream platforms and share things they feel safer sharing there because they self-destruct or can only be viewed once and predators still use all these platforms to get intimate access to children and young people, even Xbox Live.
For the general population this act and its implementation is ridiculous as well as a flagrant attack on internet freedom, but as stupid as requiring ID/facial verification for the social aspects of gaming seems, it does make sense for children to be restricted until a parent unlocks it and optionally is shown the risks.
Parents have all the tools they need to lock down their children’s devices but how many actually do it? Bad parenting these days is about shutting your children up with a tablet with access to the world (and the world – access to your children) and there are a lot of nasty, sick people out there.
Then there’s the bullying thing, which of course would happen either way but mini ‘keyboard warriors’ are much more comfortable doing it over the internet
How long until you need to verify your age to play 18 rated games like GTA? Or watch 18 rated films on Netflix?