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Re: Show HN: Use Their ID – Use your local UK MP’s ID for the Online Safety Act

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What a fucking mess. Labour voted in conservative policy. Conservatives voted against it. Reform, whilst all over the news for being against it, voted for it.

I think it's fun when the elected government doesn't do what the people who elected them want. Like a middle finger to democracy.

UK is a monarchy. More so now than ever before. They all just chasing their peerages.

Re: Show HN: Use Their ID – Use your local UK MP’s ID for the Online Safety Act

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Labour thought Tory version was not going far enough.

Labour appear to be talking about wanting to repeal the OSA judging by this morning's news: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/jul/29/uk-pol...

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Re: Show HN: Use Their ID – Use your local UK MP’s ID for the Online Safety Act

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Do please take a moment to consider which MPs carry the burden here. It's mainly a single flavour. Mention it on the doorstep next time. https://votes.parliament.uk/votes/commons/division/1926

What a fucking mess. Labour voted in conservative policy. Conservatives voted against it. Reform, whilst all over the news for being against it, voted for it.

There's an excellent (volunteer-run) [website](https://www.partijgedrag.nl/index.php) about Dutch politics that will ask your opinion on a bunch of historic chamber proposals (for/against/skip) and use that to show your alignment to different parties by comparing your answers with actual party votes. It has definitely swayed my vote a few times.

I suppose such a tool might not work in a first-past-the-post voting system, but in my case it certainly has certainly helped to see what politicians actually vote like rather than just trusting the promises. If you live in a country with easily accessible digital records of votes/bills/proposals, I imagine you could throw something similar together and help quite a few people.

Re: Show HN: Use Their ID – Use your local UK MP’s ID for the Online Safety Act

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post #54

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What a fucking mess. Labour voted in conservative policy. Conservatives voted against it. Reform, whilst all over the news for being against it, voted for it.

Clamping down on freedoms is not conservative policy. Crap like Communications Act 2003 and Ofcom has been Labour policy for decades.

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Re: Show HN: Use Their ID – Use your local UK MP’s ID for the Online Safety Act

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As someone who was involved in the original guerilla digital activism that spawned the third-person URL format for independent UK government-watching websites (ie "Write to Them", "They Work for You"), I applaud your on-topic brand extension, Tim :)

Thanks for your activism Danny - by coincidence I'm wearing an ancient NTK tshirt today, from a simpler era of the internet.

Re: Show HN: Use Their ID – Use your local UK MP’s ID for the Online Safety Act

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post #180

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Labour thought Tory version was not going far enough.

Labour appear to be talking about wanting to repeal the OSA judging by this morning's news: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/jul/29/uk-pol...

Nigel Farage isn't part of Labour.

Re: Show HN: Use Their ID – Use your local UK MP’s ID for the Online Safety Act

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post #54

Do please take a moment to consider which MPs carry the burden here. It's mainly a single flavour. Mention it on the doorstep next time. https://votes.parliament.uk/votes/commons/division/1926

What a fucking mess. Labour voted in conservative policy. Conservatives voted against it. Reform, whilst all over the news for being against it, voted for it.

It's Daily Mail policy, and they're the permanent government. With the help of the Home Office, who keep writing anti-encryption bills.

Re: Show HN: Use Their ID – Use your local UK MP’s ID for the Online Safety Act

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I like the spirit but wouldn't this run afoul of one or two laws? Identity fraud or some such? I'm not in the UK, so I don't have any idea about their laws, but I'd be shocked to find this was above board. Your FAQ claims it's a parody site and claims " The ID number isn't valid and you can't use the card for anything real. " but you've just confirmed here it can indeed be used for real things (discord, reddit). Your…

What does the online safety act actually say about this? It's only supposed to be age verification, and if you are actually old enough does it matter how you proved it?

Many of the age verification services explicitly promise not to retain photos!

Re: Show HN: Use Their ID – Use your local UK MP’s ID for the Online Safety Act

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it's literally just the MPs name. It's a fake DoB (because their DoB's aren't public knowledge anymore) all the numbers and such are nonsense, the images wouldn't fool a human for one second. The AI tools don't let you generate an ID for any real human being (because that sounds like all sorts of fraud) so you can't upload a picture of the MP or anything like that - so I just let the model fill in whatever face it th…

I'm a bit out of the loop and not familiar with the whole thing. Do you just submit a plausibly real name and any DOB that is older than 18 and a picture? Does the thing crosscheck the name + dob with a demographic database (does UK has any)?

It's all just random third party shit with zero government oversight. There's no national ID in the UK because even the mildest mention of a voluntary national ID scheme leads to gnashing of teeth and wailing about how it's fascist and a violation of our civil liberties and everyone is happy pissing about with driving licenses or passports or utility bills to prove who you are.
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