Is QQ at risk of being Age Verified?

[Ian Moone]

I was wondering with all the talk of age verification if QQ was currently being affected?

 

[TomatoPotato]

Yes. The mod team has secretly been working on an ai tool that will comb through user's posts and determine what age users actually are through their vernacular and lexicon.
Any jokes like "6 7" or to much usage of terms like; bet, cap, bussin, or lowkey, will instantly be noticed and be used to identify you as possibly under 18 and thus requiring further age verification.

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This is a joke.

 

[Biigoh]

I was wondering with all the talk of age verification if QQ was currently being affected?

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Are you 18+?

If yes, it's a okay.
If no, welp.

 

[Ian Moone]

Are you 18+?

If yes, it's a okay.
If no, welp.

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I am over 18. I was wondering if we would have to submit pictures of our ID or something else to prove it?

 

[Biigoh]

I am over 18. I was wondering if we would have to submit pictures of our ID or something else to prove it?

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Nah. No id. We're not the bar

 

[Ian Moone]

Nah. No id. We're not the bar

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[ultima333]

This was asked before, the answer remains the same "no"

QuestionableQuesting is not hosted in the UK - as such, it is not immediately subject to the UK's Online Safety Act.
While the OSA does add stipulations for some non-UK based sites, these are for sites that have a "Link to the UK"

Spoiler: Criteria for Link to the UK

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Source: https://www.hsfkramer.com/en_US/insights/key-topics/who-is-caught-by-the-osa

1. The service has a significant amount of UK users
- We are small enough that we fall outside of all of the major categorizations, which start at the hundreds of thousands of UK users- we hardly have 100k Daily Active Users period, and the UK residents are far and away from the majority here.

2. The service has UK users as a target market
- QuestionableQuesting has no revenue stream outside of user donations- we do not run advertisements, we do not charge users for features, and we do not sell licensed or official merchandise (that one year's April fool's joke was a 'design your own' mug/bottle site).

3. The service poses a material risk of harm to UK users
- They do provide a list of what they consider illegal harms, and it's stuff that is already against the rules of the site and covered by existing United States law (where we are hosted). We don't host such content.


As such, we have no plans to make any configuration nor rules changes for the UK Online Safety Act.
Or as some might say: "Bollocks to that, now get back to wanking."

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[Cherry Lover]

I was wondering with all the talk of age verification if QQ was currently being affected?

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No, for the simple reason that all of the porn is hidden behind a login and the site is hosted outside of the UK. Given that the UK government can't even manage to enforce age verification on actual porn sites, it has zero chance of enforcing it on QQ.

 

[edk]

No, for the simple reason that all of the porn is hidden behind a login and the site is hosted outside of the UK. Given that the UK government can't even manage to enforce age verification on actual porn sites, it has zero chance of enforcing it on QQ.

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I wish it were just a UK problem but there's a lot of individual US states doing the same too. I know Missouri just passed one recently, Ohio earlier in the year, and Texas even earlier than that. I think the last count was something like 20 states with age I.D. of some kind but my numbers could be off.

There's also the SCREEN Act and at least one other proposed bill whose name I forget going through the national branches that are very concerning. SCREEN even mentions screening for VPN's while proposed legislation in Michigan and Wyoming I believe both advocate for their complete banning under penalty of law.

 

[BobtheNORMALguy]

SCREEN even mentions screening for VPN's while proposed legislation in Michigan and Wyoming I believe both advocate for their complete banning under penalty of law.

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Considering countries like China still have plenty of VPNs despite building their infrastructure specifically to stop things like that... Enforcing this effectively would be an amazing feat.

It's a dumb law that the United States is in no way prepared to actually enforce. It might work as a deterrent though.

 

[edk]

Considering countries like China still have plenty of VPNs despite building their infrastructure specifically to stop things like that... Enforcing this effectively would be an amazing feat.

It's a dumb law that the United States is in no way prepared to actually enforce. It might work as a deterrent though.

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Yeah it's dumb but still worth telling people about. Even if it counts as fear mongering, I figure its better to spread the word of stupid things that could affect a persons life than keep them silent. I'm far more worried that if SCREEN or the Michigan law goes through, people who don't already have a VPN could get caught looking them up and charged with 'illegal activities'. If I remember my numbers right, Missouri just had a 4x jump in VPN searches/sales this week so imagine if every single one of those people were charged with a misdemeanor or something.

However, in all fairness, I think the Michigan bill has about 6 sponsors so it's very much a minority at the moment.

 

[Ian Moone]

I think there is a better thread to take this discussion to.