The UK tries, once again, to age-gate pornography
The UK tries, once again, to age-gate pornography
www.theverge.com The UK tries, once again, to age-gate pornography
Four years after its last attempt fizzled out.
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The majority of those are coming across it accidentally
Source: teenagers caught in the act by their parents
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Outside the box solution: don't age restrict access to porn. Every teenager is going to get it anyway.
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The majority of those are coming across it accidentally
We'll... I mean... it doesn't exactly accidentally come out of you. You have to be touching it for some time.
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Lonely Island would beg to differ
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I swear dumbarses like this live in a bubble. Who in their right mind would give their identity documents or bank cards to a porn site? If the UK government enacts this silly legislation it just means UK residents will use non-UK sites.
Some people really need a reality check.
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This is just a step in the path to try again to make VPNs illegal there.
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You giving them far too much credit. They really are that thick.
Anyway it's irrelevant, because as with most of their stupid new laws it'll never come into effect because they won't be in office by the time it's supposed to be enacted. It's just meant to appeal to their voters, so that they get some donations. They know it'll never actually happen.
They're saying next year for this, which I assume that means about a year away, andthe latest the election can be held is January 2025. But realistically it's probably going to be in 6 months.
So either this is going to be around for all of 2 months (assuming that it isn't delayed), or it's never going to happen, and I'll put money on it never happening.
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There’s also the risk that any age verification implemented will end up being bypassed by anyone with access to a VPN
I'd bet there's already a significant amount of people doing this in places besides the UK.
Government can't get enough of seeing what people are doing, including what they're wanking off too - no privacy for the masses.
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Pornographic content that consists only of text is not covered by today’s guidelines.
Ao3 users can't stop winning.
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Its amazing how excluding the smut tag practically drops at least 50% of the stories, sometimes more depending on the fandom
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There’s also the risk that any age verification implemented will end up being bypassed by anyone with access to a VPN. When I ask, Whitehead admits that there’s no “silver bullet” when it comes to online safety. However, she says the measures are still worthwhile if they can help stop children from accidentally encountering adult content.
It sounds like they have absolutely no idea how to implement this law in anything approaching an effective manner. I suspected lend up getting scrap like everything else.
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They wont have anything but a minimal budget to even research this properly, let alone employ the staff or setup the systems to manage it properly.
I realise China monitors a lot more than porn and their population is much much larger however they have between 20 and 50k working on it. Even if you cut down the scope you are still looking at thousands of employees to do this properly.
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Too true.
I actually used to work for a branch of the British government and their philosophy was never spend any money, especially on maintenance.
So I would not be surprised if you're right. Also the ICO are completely toothless, I don't think they've ever actually done any legal enforcement. It's their fault that all the websites have the stupid cookie pop-up warnings. Somebody asked him if that would be acceptable under the law and they said yes, even though it's clearly ridiculous and clearly violates the law, but that set the precedent. They set a precedent on Twitter. Idiots
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Don't worry about it, they'll just use AI to do it...
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accidentally encountering adult content.
The way that works in Germany is that the BPjM has an index of iffy stuff and the big search engines are required to use it as a blacklist. Same general reasoning as it being completely legal to sell porn in a shop but you gotta keep it under the counter, or in a separate 18+ section, and not advertise it publicly.
The "fine unless by accident" thing is btw backed by developmental psychology roughly speaking if kids are old enough to seek stuff out, they're old enough to deal with seeing it. The rest is media competency and discussing that porn is not a documentary movie is something for sex ed.
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XD
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Let's just waste some more money to appease some bigots who have illegal seed behind close doors, right? Coz normally that's exactly what happens..
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Who have illegal seed behind closed doors
Please elaborate
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has laid out how porn sites could verify users’ ages under the newly passed Online Safety Act.
The regulator is consulting on these guidelines starting today and hopes to finalize its official guidance in roughly a year’s time.
The measures have the potential to be contentious and come a little over four years after the UK government scrapped its last attempt to mandate age verification for pornography.
“The majority of those are coming across it accidentally and stumbling across it on the web.” Ofcom’s press release cites research that suggests nearly eight in 10 children have seen “violent pornography depicting coercive, degrading or pain-inducing sex acts” before turning 18.
Once the duties come into force, pornography sites will be able to choose from Ofcom’s approaches or implement their own age verification measures so long as they’re deemed to hit the “highly effective” bar demanded by the Online Safety Act.
“Age verification technologies for pornography risk sensitive personal data being breached, collected, shared, or sold.
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Why don't they just announce that they've done it?
It's only bigoted "religious" nosey busy body hand ringing type idiots that care, and presumably they won't ever try and access pornography themselves anyway so how are they going to find out? Right?
Unless of course they do, but that would then require them to admit that they attempted to access it.
Problem solved.
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Hyper religious conservatives that seek to control others' access to regular pornography are projecting. They are into the super fucked up porn, and going on the offensive about age verification policies is 1000% guilty mind mentality.
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I remember in college someone was doing some study on the difference between men who do and don't watch porn.
They had to cancel the study because they couldn't find any men who hadn't.
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They would find more if they asked them in front of their partners lol
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Will be as successful as last time
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I'm torn on what to think about the uks stance on technology. Like one one hand they've been forcing apple to be normal. But on the other hand they love trying to restrict porn in the most ridiculous ways.
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The current UK government are basically Posh Fascists (Notice the anti-demonstration legislation, sending people asking the UK for asylum to Rwanda and sending surveillance planes to help Israel with what the UN has deemed a Genocide in Gaza) so this is hardly surprising.
The Conservative wing of the Tory party has been well and trully buried by the UKIPers that invaded the party back in the Brexit Campaign days and all that's left leading that party are people with a Fascist outlook on the world and the learned posh manners that you get from the very expensive private education institutions (curiously and with no irony called "Public Schools") in that country.
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They're called public schools because anyone could attend them as long as they paid the cost. They were the alternative to private schools which were for nobles or religious training etc that you couldn't buy in to. Comprehensive schools, free schools for anyone, came a lot later.
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good
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No, not it's not. And not even just for the lulz of having access to porn.
You wanna know why? For the same reasons that decriminalisation of drugs is has potential upsides, and for the same reasons why repression breeds kinks.
People are going to try to get porn anyway. If you force young people (or people who can't provide ID) to resort viewing porn illegally, then it is infinitely easier for them to go browsing for porn in places that will let them find really illegal porn.
In other words, would you rather have your kids watching main stream porn, or would you like them to potentially end up on the dark web?
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We should abolish online porn entirely.
A reduction in incels will reduce the number of white supremacists.
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Because, historically, prohibition of [x] has been a highly effective strategy with no downsides whatsoever.
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How would that reduce the number of incels?
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“Trust me bro”
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It wouldn't
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If you ban bank heist movies like Ocean's Eleven, people will stop robbing banks
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It's a casino heist movie, you uncultured swine.
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