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Wikipedia loses UK Safety Act challenge, worries it will have to verify user IDs
Judge tossed claim but said UK must not “significantly impede” Wikipedia operations.
The Online Safety Act has forced social media sites like Reddit to verify UK users' ages before letting them view adult content. While the rules are "intended to capture large profitable social media companies where anonymous content can 'go viral,'" the criteria were "drawn too broadly with the result that Wikipedia is likely to qualify as a Category 1 service even though that was never the policy intention," the High Court said in a summary of the foundation's argument. The court disagreed with Wikimedia's claim that the system is illogical, saying that "the claimants have not identified any basic flaw in the logic or reasoning that Ofcom applied, and which officials approved, and the Secretary of State accepted...
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