Bluesky is rolling out age verification in the UK

Enforcement occurs at the application level. You can think of applications as analogous to search engines. They're aggregating view layers (which is why they're called AppViews). They are largely where moderation or regulatory requirements are enforced.

Here is some of it: https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/pull/4030

You do not have 'civil liberties' in the UK. There is no Miranda rights and there bill of rights is strictly based on the Magna Carta and is not as comprehensive and the US Bill of Rights which was based off of the UK version.

Per the wiki:

Civil liberties have been gradually declining in the United Kingdom since the late 20th century. Their removal has been generally justified by appeals to public safety and National Security and hastened on by crises such as the September 11 attacks, the 7/7 bombings and the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.[4][5][6] The pandemic oversaw the introduction of the Coronavirus Act 2020, which was described by former Justice of the Supreme Court Lord Sumption as "the greatest invasion of personal liberty in [the UK's] history."

Multiple platforms have had that an an option. It's really odd as a concept to me, does it only work for very obvious cases and for people around 18-30 ask for an ID anyways?

From the first paragraph

> the platform says it will let users verify their age by scanning their face, uploading an ID, or entering a payment card.

Note the "or"

Error: 403 - Account holder's testicles have not sufficiently descended.

> reputation for cp and other forms of abuse

That "reputation" is slander from haters and those who don't want others to have nice things

Another example is JD Vance, creating an account, making his first post to trans troll [1], and then crowing about how awful Bluesky was to him and how he got blocked. He's still posting as recently as July 4, but he's really just become mostly a social media troll, and Bluesky users generally block trolls instead of engaging them

[1] https://blebbit.app/at/did:plc:tkspefzlu72575kljanhe3uj/app.... (3rd of the 3 part post)

It is a social media platform that allows image posts. Allowing adult content is by design. Draconian "internet safety" laws like this one really should not be a reasonable expectation for what you will have to put your users through to see nude photos on the internet.

I'm also not sure where that supposed reputation is coming from, because my experience is that they've been criticized for over-moderation, if anything...