if i'm reading the UK online safety act correctly, a platform is only required to verify IDs if the service "has links with the UK," which means that
a) people from the UK are the target market,
b) "the service has a significant number of united kingdom users" where "significant" is undefined, or
c) if there is "reasonable grounds to believe that there is a material risk of significant harm to individuals in the UK from user generated content."
since (c) is definitely not true, and (b) is totally undefined, i guess i am legally obligated as someone involved in running an online service to say "if you are from the UK, fuck off, you are not our target market, and if you are here you are not significant"
