Because from what I can tell, most social media sites just don't show you that you can't see something at all. When the Online Safety Act first passed I was complaining about it to my parents who were probably rolling their eyes at me being Too Opinionated again, but it was less than a day into it when my mum was scrolling on bluesky and saw "this post is hidden in your region unless you verify your age" and she tapped "ok" to get rid of it. Now she doesn't follow porn accounts or anything, chances are it was something about Gaza since she follows accounts that post about that. She then realised that the OSA isn't actually that great and what I was complaining about was actually a real thing.

But you realise it's not staff's fault this time right? It's the governments who have passed laws requiring it who are at fault. Tumblr can't just ignore the law or they risk getting blocked entirely in those countries and I'm not sure what the penalty is in Brazil, but in the UK it's a fine of at least £18million for non-compliance.

What the UK government is going is trying to make it so that only tech giants are able to afford the cost of doing business here. They WANT to kill smaller/independent/volunteer-run websites. It's much easier to spy on and censor everyone when everyone is concentrated on two or three websites owned by billionaires that they already have backdoors into.

There have already been stories about websites shutting down entirely after being online for 20 years because they're run by one guy who doesn't want the risk of getting a fine he can't afford.