With the impending age verification requirements in a lot of jurisdictions,
I expect that running a BBS is going to get a lot more difficult in general. While there may be exemptions for smaller services, the question really
becomes how long that will last before they start tightening the screws.

The next few years are going to be Interesting in the ancient Chinese
proverb sort of way...

Re: Mandated age checking and
By: Firehawke to All on Mon Jun 29 2026 04:21 am

With the impending age verification requirements in a lot of jurisdictions,
I expect that running a BBS is going to get a lot more difficult in general. While there may be exemptions for smaller services, the question really becomes how long that will last before they start tightening the screws.

The next few years are going to be Interesting in the ancient Chinese
proverb sort of way...

Nothing will happen at all. There is nothing to be concerned about.

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With the impending age verification requirements in a lot of jurisdictions, I expect that running a BBS is going to get a lot more difficult in general. While there may be exemptions for smaller services, the question really becomes how long that will last before they start tightening the screws.

The next few years are going to be Interesting in the ancient Chinese proverb sort of way...

All Americans across party lines need to call their US Senators to
reject the KIDS act, tightened internet is a threat to civil liberties
to all of us.

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Re: Mandated age checking and
By: Matthew Munson to FIREHAWKE on Mon Jun 29 2026 19:53:00

All Americans across party lines need to call their US Senators to
reject the KIDS act, tightened internet is a threat to civil liberties
to all of us.

With the first link, the chain is forged.
The first thought forbidden
The first speech censored
Chains us all irrevocably.
Judge Aaron Satie

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Re: Mandated age checking and
By: Mortar to All on Tue Jun 30 2026 09:56 am

With the first link, the chain is forged. The first thought forbidden The first speech censored Chains us all irrevocably. Judge Aaron Satie

Nice quote from Star Trek: The Next Generation. :)

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Re: Mandated age checking and
By: Mortar to All on Tue Jun 30 2026 09:56:35

Re: Mandated age checking and
By: Matthew Munson to FIREHAWKE on Mon Jun 29 2026 19:53:00

All Americans across party lines need to call their US Senators to reject
the KIDS act, tightened internet is a threat to civil liberties to all of
us.

With the first link, the chain is forged. The first thought forbidden The first speech censored Chains us all irrevocably. Judge Aaron Satie

or as The Doctor would say (in StarFleetAcademy):
"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, us all irrevocably"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG2nWXLmL8g

=)

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Re: Mandated age checking and
By: Firehawke to All on Mon Jun 29 2026 04:21 am

I expect that running a BBS is going to get a lot more difficult in general.

Pretty sure the gubment forgot all about BBSes.

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Re: Mandated age checking and
By: Firehawke to All on Mon Jun 29 2026 04:21 am

With the impending age verification requirements in a lot of jurisdictions, I expect that running a BBS is going to get a lot more difficult in general. While there may be exemptions for smaller services, the question really becomes how long that will last before they start tightening the screws.

The next few years are going to be Interesting in the ancient Chinese proverb sort of way...

We've already seen this with Ofcom harassing small services. Many old forums just closed up shop in anticipation of being harassed.

But it's also true that maanaging such a bureaucracy costs money and time. They can use AI to detect and automate contact (threat letters), but pulling every possible small time operator into the system would be prohibvitively expensive.

So I think BBS's aren't going to be b.. targeted by this any time soon. Maybe in 10 years once the machinery has been polished and all the bigger and medium sized scalps have been taken.

Ofr course, VPNs are next on the choipping block in the UK. So anything is possible.

Buckle up.

-Hx

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Re: Mandated age checking and
By: Hebrix to Firehawke on Tue Jul 07 2026 02:00 pm

Ofr course, VPNs are next on the choipping block in the UK. So anything is possible.

VPNs are only good for bypassing/tricking geofencing. Otherwise they are a scam. The "privacy" thing is bullshit. That's the commercial/public VPNs, I'm talking about. Not like using a VPN to get into your home or business network.

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Re: Mandated age checking and
By: phigan to Hebrix on Thu Jul 09 2026 11:38 am

Ofr course, VPNs are next on the choipping block in the UK. So anything is possible.

VPNs are only good for bypassing/tricking geofencing. Otherwise they are a scam. The "privacy" thing is bullshit. That's the commercial/public VPNs,

If a VPN doesn't leak your IP to the sites you visit, then it's not a scam. Whether or not it leaks the info to the authorities is another matter.

-Hx

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Re: Mandated age checking and
By: Hebrix to phigan on Fri Jul 10 2026 02:23 pm

If a VPN doesn't leak your IP to the
sites you visit, then it's not a sca
Whether or not it leaks the info to
authorities is another matter.

For hiding my IP from the place I'm
connecting to, there are plenty of
places I could tunnel through.. but..
What's the use case for hiding your IP
from the place you are connecting to? I
suppose you could be trying to use
multiple accounts for something that
only allows one account per household?
(On a side note, that def isn't
'privacy'). I would think the
authorities would be who you'd hide
your IP from. It's not like random
people could get your real personal
information by having your IP, but
authorities certainly can. Also as long
as authorities have access too all
upstream providers (and they do), they
can tell who all connections are
to/from regardless of using a VPN or
even TOR (most of the time, outside of
the Onion network).

Those public VPNs that charge money
are a total waste of money. Get
yourself a super cheap VPS and tunnel
through that. Also, there are TONS of
free proxies and whatnot out there,
too.

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