
On the 25th July 2025, the UK’s Online Safety Act 2025 came into force. This meant that platforms have a legal duty to protect children online. Platforms are now required to use highly effective age assurance to prevent children from accessing pornography, or content which encourages self-harm, suicide or eating disorder content.
Basically, from that date, I could no longer see a cock on Twitter (or X if you prefer). I changed my location to the US in the settings, and that fixed it for a few days. Then they got wise to that and must have used my IP location to restrict me again. So, no more cocks again. Then I used my VPN, and that did the trick. But I had to keep my location as the US.
Despite the FAQ on how to verify your age to view restricted content, I couldn’t find any instructions to do so, unless I wanted to pay for a premium account. I didn’t.
Now, after many tries and using my driving licence and a selfie, I have finally verified that I am over eighteen, by many years.
So I can now see cocks galore again! Hurray!