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

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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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It's literally just sticking the MPs name into an AI and asking for it to generate a mock ID for them. None of their real data is being used (e.g. their face, their DoB, the address) and the mock IDs wouldn't fool anyone for a second. I'd love if someone who understands the law would weigh in though

It's better to be safe than sorry. For your own best interest, I would shut down the site and delete this post.

“Don’t upset the autocrats!”

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

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Won’t the government force these websites to do some kind of stronger identity verification in the future? I worry that it’ll even come with broader support when the EU or whoever implements ID verification for protecting children or banning misinformation or whatever.

>Won’t the government force these websites to do some kind of stronger identity verification in the future?

These heckin' kids needs more protection. I suggest banning all VPNs too, only this way kids are truly protected like they are in China and Iran.

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.

Wow this shows labour has too many MPs and the impacts of voting for labour

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

I'm not sure what this recent vote is about. The original Online Safety Act was introduced and passed by the Tories in 2023 (although it's only coming into effect now, obviously.)

So the Tories, who created this awful bill in the first place, are now voting against it? Clown country.

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.

The Conservatives aren't a conservative party.

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

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post #43

Chinese Netizens are very familiar with Xi Jinping's national ID number precisely for this reason :-) ID verification is enforced on all Chinese websites. People figured out they can just use Xi's ID number.

> ID verification is enforced on all Chinese websites.

Is that really true? So search engines? News sites? Pseudo-anonymous discussion forums?

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

#77
post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's better to be safe than sorry. For your own best interest, I would shut down the site and delete this post.

“Don’t upset the autocrats!”

You kid, but that's very good advice in most human societies at most points in history.

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

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post #69
post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Clamping down on freedoms has been the raison d'être of "conservative" parties across the world my entire life

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

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post #52

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Really? Does it really cost that much to generate a single image like this?

yeah to generate a photo of reasonable quality it costs like $.18, so multiply that by 650ish MPs and you have a pretty expensive lil parody site...

Make hay while the sun shines. ~$120 upfront would make this an order of magnitude more expensive than a vanity domain name already, but if you had precomputed and cached them you’d be capitalizing on the viral momentum.

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

I'm not sure what this recent vote is about. The original Online Safety Act was introduced and passed by the Tories in 2023 (although it's only coming into effect now, obviously.) So the Tories, who created this awful bill in the first place, are now voting against it? Clown country.

Labour thought Tory version was not going far enough.
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