⚡️🇬🇧 NEWS - UK's age verification law is working exactly as critics predicted: a complete disaster.

Compliant sites lost 90% of users. Non-compliant sketchy sites saw traffic DOUBLE. On the bright side: Kids are now being taught to use Tor browser.

Congratulations, you played yourselves ⤵︎

One adult platform tested age verification for 3 days. Results:

• 90% of users left immediately

• Those users went...somewhere else

• The "somewhere else" isn't regulated, monitored, or safe

This is the opposite of child protection.

Meanwhile, non-compliant sites are literally teaching users how to circumvent the law with Tor browsers and VPNs.

So now kids have learned advanced privacy tools to access unregulated content.

This isn't speculation, it's documented reality. When you make content harder to access, people don't just give up. They find alternatives.

And those alternatives are always sketchier, less safe, and completely outside regulatory reach.