Blue Sky requires age verification for Texans, UK, EU, Australia, Brazil and US states with age verification laws. [View all]

The way their going about it: SSN, Credit Card or Govt ID.


I'm not giving them any info.

No other social media app is demanding this.

I can view BlueSky if I log out. (No, I'm not going to invest in a VPN. I don't post on Blue Sky enough and I can read posts and their responses on DU)

But if Blue Sky wants to grow, why are they trying to shrink their user base? Meta and Twitter and YouTube have explicility stated that they are not going to comply with the Texas law and they haven't. Seriously, asking for your SSN??? Your DL???







Update, September 26, 2025: Ohio has a law similar to South Dakota and Wyoming regulations, so we'll be implementing the same solution in Ohio, effective September 29th.

Update December 8, 2025: Virginia's age assurance law takes effect on January 1, 2026. We are making an update to comply and will not allow users in Virginia who are under 16 years old.

Update December 16, 2025: We have made an update to comply with Tennessee's age assurance law and will not allow users in Tennessee who are under 18 years old.

Update May 7, 2026: We have made an update to comply with Brazil's age assurance law and will restrict access to certain content and features for users in Brazil under the age of 18.

Update July 8, 2026: We have made an update to comply with Texas's age assurance law and will restrict access to certain content and features for users in Texas under the age of 18

https://bsky.social/about/blog/09-10-2025-age-assurance-approach
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Pretty soon Blue Sky will require age verification in CA and NY. That certainly won't help BlueSky.



Data Breach due to age verification:
https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1o2uqme/discord_data_breach_15_tb_of_data_and_2_million/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_age_verification_in_the_United_Kingdom

As an upstart, wouldn't you want your user base to grow, not shrink?