# Online Safety Act - What new features will be available?

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Tags:** online-safety-act\
**Created:** [March 27, 2024, 5:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/online-safety-act-what-new-features-will-be-available/301190 "2024-03-27T17:32:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Matt\_Blackwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a9a28c/32.png) [@Matt\_Blackwood](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Matt_Blackwood)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2025, 12:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/online-safety-act-what-new-features-will-be-available/301190/12 "2025-07-11T12:06:11Z")

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I’ve just started setting up a self hosted discourse for our community and this is a concern raised my end too, a lot of sites are implementing ID verification to get around any legalities. Our community will be starting with a minimum age of 16 years old and be hosted in the UK. Whilst that’s the report fiction to report something illegal I am reminded this is a service used by adults and we need to be compliant.

Is there further tooling coming to help with this or does it currently satisfy the changes in the law?

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