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kyc – Dropsafe

2025-08 

A characteristically blunt, straightforward, correct and educational thread – even if some folk will erroneously dismiss it as jingo – unrolled at https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1961418733303292033.html

The logical conclusion here is that unless you KYC and ID all of your users to get all UK users off your service, a requirement which is repugnant to the First Amendment, the UK Parliament believes you're in scope.



Link to hearing transcript:https://t.co/aE3bNFDEiN — Preston Byrne (@prestonjbyrne) August 29, 2025

Ofcom and the UK parliament are obsessed with the idea of websites being “services that are offered” as opposed to “repositories that are accessed” / ignoring the agency and activity and want of the user. If the user treks into another country, another jurisdiction, in order to access a repository, it is not their home country which binds the foreign repository.

Also it appears that Australia is going down the same path:
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