Britain’s porn crackdown: Ofcom reveals the exact date you’ll have to prove you’re over-18 to access hundreds of adult sites like Pornhub
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14663447/Britain-porn-crackdown-Ofcom-exact-date.html
Posted by vriska1
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This is going to end up delayed like last time and if not there going to be huge public backlash when most sites geoblock the UK like that happen in some US states.
Will one have to prove age each and everytime for each individual website.
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But pay for a proper one, not some ‘free browser extension’ junk.
This has got nothing to do with porn, and even less to do with protecting children. They want to force every person in The UK to surrender photographic and biometric ID to access ANY website that *may* contain *any* content of *any* kind that is deemed by The Government (or whoever is really running the show behind the scenes) to be unsuitable for persons under the age of 18, for the particular reason of identifying people who support persons or organizations that are disapproved of by the authorities and the mainstream media.
They just dont want internet anonymity this isnt about the safety of children, every site even reddit has porn on it does that mean every public internet forum we visit it will require us to hand over our information, yea no thanks.
One day, the government will realise that the internet is global.
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Pity the poor call centre workers having to unblock people’s IP addresses.
It will only achieve one thing and thats people finding alternative sources for their entertainment, which will just widen the door to more questionable goods to be found. At least it will add some excitement.
>you’ll have to prove you’re over-18 to access hundreds of adult sites
Hahaha, no. I won’t be.
All this will do is encourage people to use VPNs and push others to the dark web.
A decade old dumb policy that was never properly thought through, never realistic and isn’t going to work.
All this from a government that would force through digital ID and ID cards to go everywhere if the government could get away with it.
They’ve been saying this since 2016 and it’s never happened
Ok ladies and gentlemen, take a deep breath and say it with me…
“There is nothing we can do to stop under-18s from accessing pornography”.
All of this is a waste of time. There are and will be sources of this stuff outside of any kind of reach of UK regulation and it is going to cost far more than we are prepared to spend to even make a dent in that.
Speaking as somebody who grew up as a computer nerd, I bet I would have these restrictions bypassed in minutes and if I couldn’t do it, I would know somebody who could. The sum total of tech skills in the under-18 demographic is greater than the sum total of government ministers by several orders of magnitude and the sites themselves are only motivated to do the minimum that the government stipulate. Consider how easy it is to bypass most newspaper paywalls [see for example, automod comment on this very article]. This is the kind of thing I am expecting.
I say again. Waste. Of. Time.
Parents. You may need to actually sit down and speak to your children about the subject. Show them some kind of fantasy or sci-fi movie then have a conversation with them about whether they actually believe what they saw in the movie is real, or accurately represents the things they might expect to encounter in real life and then begin a conversation about why they would consider depictions of sex to be any different.
If you are expecting the government to solve the problem of your children being exposed to the plethora of deviancy that adults have decided to capture in image, film and text, I think your expectations are far too high. It’s on you.
Looks like it’s time to get the mags down from the loft…
Handing over my card details to some random company on the internet for age verification?
That has zero chance of going wrong…
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If an article has ‘Exact date’ in it I always assume its AI written, Exact date ‘snow bomb will hit Britain’, Exact date ‘you will regret being born’.
This’ll be like ‘accept cookies’ on steroids. Way to go ruining the internet.
What’s the point of this? There’s already a router level block on adult sites offered and turned on by default by ISPs.
If this does pass, I can’t wait to see what MPs details leak first and what dirty videos they’ve been watching. That’ll teach them.
Just take the fucking phones off the kids if you’re concerned about what they do. Don’t punish the rest of us for bad parenting
So the last twenty years collecting and downloading 10 terabytes of favourites hasn’t been such a waste after all.
“offcom reveals the date you’ll have to start using a VPN”
Ah, yes. The war on porn. Because the war on drugs has gone so well.
this is like throwing a single stick in the river and calling it a dam. Most useless legislation ever, will stop nothing
I’ve already completed pornhub and xhamster, so too late!
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Pornhub likely won’t enforce it and rather block the site in the UK as they’ve done in US states that have a similar rule
Badly informed and it will be interesting to watch the insanity play out.
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This annoyed me the first time, instead of educating adults/guardians of kids, they want the ISP’s/social media to ‘protect’ the children.
I would suggest fb, IG and x are just as bad if not worse and also need verification.. Which they mostly have already
That bloke must be gutted his picture is used on this article
We are governed by people who have no idea how the internet works
25th July apparently, for anyone not wanting to click through to the Daily Mail: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/illegal-and-harmful-content/statement-protecting-children-from-harms-online
As a teen boy – I would have hacked into Nasa if it was the only source of porn.
This legislation will do NOTHING except create a blackmail database of porn users.
This will just push normal people onto super sus sites and encounter content that is completely unmoderated. Great now theyre all watching content on a website hosted in belarus hosted by the russian mafia.
Hundreds of sites?
What about the other 50,000,000,000 of them?
This will include Reddit btw. There’s just no way it’s getting over the line. Too many websites and social media platforms have nsfw content
Didn’t they already try this a few years ago and then the entire thing got indefinitely delayed from the pushback and knowledge that it was unenforceable?
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