opinion Implementation of the U.K.'s Online Safety Act is giving internet users around the globe – including those in U.S. states moving to enact their own age verification laws – real-time proof that such laws impinge on everyone's rights to speak, read, and view freely.

The new OSA rules require all online services accessible in the UK – social media , search engines , music sites , and adult content providers — to enforce age checks to keep children from seeing "harmful content" . Online services also must change their algorithms and moderation systems to keep such content from young people.

Social media platforms Reddit , Bluesky , Discord , and X all introduced age checks to block children from seeing harmful content; adult websites implemented age assurance checks on their sites as

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