UK age verification rules now block teens from reading Substack, sparking tech backlash
AaronBergman18 · x · 2026-11-13
Tracewoodgrains criticizes the UK's age-verification regime as a "straitjacket state," arguing it absurdly blocks 15-year-olds from reading Substack articles — "sorry, British kids, except you won't read this, bc it's illegal for you." AaronBergman's repost ("This is insane") reflects growing tech-community backlash against the Online Safety Act's age restrictions.
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