Online Safety Bill age checks? We won't do 'em, says Wikipedia
Wikipedia won't be age-gating its services no matter what final form the UK's Online Safety Bill takes, two senior folks from nonprofit steward the Wikimedia Foundation said this morning.
The new legislation asks that platforms control risks for underage visitors, prompting the foundation to come out to say it won't age-gate its entries.this morning, Rebecca MacKinnon, vice president of Global Advocacy at Wikimedia, said that to perform such verification would"violate our commitment to collect minimal data about readers and contributors."
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