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    All porn sites must ‘robustly’ verify UK user ages by July

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    1. LickClitsSuckNips on

      Imagine a porn site gets hacked and 62 year old Alan gets sacked from his job because it gets leaked he has a massive pegging fetish.

      But, hopefully this will help society rip itself from the porn addiction it has through being ashamed to put on their personal details on these seedy websites

    3. allen_jb on

      I’m sure all the porn sites hosted in non-friendly jurisdictions are shaking in their boots (or should that be shaking their booties) at this.

      And for the rest, they’ll probably be including ads for VPNs that promise to remove age checks, or instructions for accessing the site via TOR, on the age verification step.

    5. Baslifico on

      > Ofcom confirmed to the BBC this meant user-to-user services such as social media platforms must implement “highly effective checks”

      Words are easy, it’s the technical details that matter.

      Bottom line: Force ID verification or allow anonymous users.

      Sounds like they want to force ID verification but don’t quite have the balls to say it aloud.

    6. robot20307 on

      I’m an idiot with no relevant knowledge, but if the government wants to keep kids from viewing porn wouldn’t it be more effective (and less impossible) to put something on their device rather than every website?

    7. martzgregpaul on

      Have you seen twitter lately? Its wall to wall porn. Do you think crazy elmo is going to check anything?

    8. Personal_Lab_484 on

      So what will happen is the mainstream sites with porn in will comply or pull out.

      The under 18s will be directed to the dodgy or illegal sites with the snuff porn, beastility etc that don’t conform to legislation anyway. As well as becoming more savvy with VPN.

      Dave from Lancashire, 42, will inevitably have his fetish for feet exposed in a data leek in the next 5 years. As well as mass gang of hackers targeting porn sites for ransom scams.

      All to ensure yummy mummy’s in Buckinghamshire don’t have to have an adult conversation with their teenage boy about the realities of sex and porn.

      Poor parenting, ransoms, blackmail and increasingly extreme porn for children. Wonderful.

    9. NorthbankN5 on

      It’s actually kind of amusing that they think this will make any difference. VPN providers rubbing their hands with glee.

    10. LuinAelin on

      Not sure how workable this is.

      How will they do the checks and what’s to stop the kids from using their parents ID or something.

    11. potpan0 on

      I feel like this is masking a much bigger issue.

      I can very easily jump onto Youtube or Twitch or Tiktok or even just turn on the TV and find ‘content’ which objectifies and sexualises men and women. Maybe it’s a popular TV show where attractive men and women are invited to an island to lounge around in swimwear and get off with each other. Maybe it’s a Twitch streamer who can’t talk about women without calling them ‘bitches’ and where whenever a woman appears on screen that chat is instantly spammed with ‘booba’ emojis. Maybe it’s a TikTok account where the owner only uploads ‘outfit try-ons’ which are all incredibly tight fitting and revealing.

      All of this can potentially be ‘pornographic’. All of this can potentially impart incredibly harmful social views on children (if anything, I’d argue the casual misogyny you find on a lot of social media platforms is a lot more harmful than pornography). So the much better solution would be educating children about this sort of ‘content’ rather than constantly and ineffectively trying to put it behind barriers.

    12. Timely-Helicopter173 on

      I don’t care enough to die on this particular hill and am way over the age they’re concerned about but I guarantee I won’t be verifying my age after July too.

      This is like the stupid cookie policy where you have to accept a cookie specifying your preference for whether you want to accept cookies or not, meanwhile everyone installs “I still don’t care about cookies” or whatever plugin to just make the messages go away. And clear cookies on exit later…

    13. vegas4you on

      Didn’t a bunch of US states try this and most adult websites just banned people from those states. Who’s to say they won’t just do this for thr UK?

    14. RonnyReddit00 on

      There is not a chance in hell that I will give my id to porn sites. That’ll be leaked in a second and everyone will know my diverse interests. 

      Tbh I’m happy to give up porn at this point and go back to looking at lingerie mags as I did as a pre internet teen.

    16. Simple_Ad_1355 on

      So more parents can throw tablets at their children and ignore them without having to worry..

      Parent your kids yourself ffs 🤣

    17. Captain_Chaos007 on

      Can’t watch porn without handing over a load of identifying information to websites which are probably about as secure as a gate in an open field.

      Can’t gamble without giving out more financial information sometimes than even banks or letting agents request for lettings or mortgages.

      Wonderful times…

    18. luttman23 on

      I don’t want my wanking habits sold to the highest bidder!
      And can you imagine the personalised mobile ads?

    20. its-mb on

      Lots of people are worrying about these sites accidentally leaking your info. That’s not the only problem. Scammers can intentionally set up these kinds of sites to get people to enter their details. The government should not be encouraging people to share personal information with strangers on the internet.

      If they want to stop children accessing these sites, well, there are parental controls for devices, and home routers can configure access per device. Unfortunately, many of our laws are made by people who have no clue about the topic at hand and are unable to come up with the best solution.

    22. ShowMeYourPapers on

      But I can be in the UK, Mexico, Finland, Bosnia, Uruguay, and even the UAE all on the same day.

    23. Fellowes321 on

      Question 1 Are you over 18 y/n

      Question 2 No really, are you over 18 y/n

      If no, do you want to be directed to our free vpn service?

    25. glasgowgeg on

      Wasn’t this dropped under the Digital Economy Act 2017 after like 2-3 years as being “completely unworkable”?

      How does Labour plan on implementing it in 6 months when it’s previously failed?

    26. zezblit on

      Banning naked people but not the vastly more harmful far-right misogynistic radicalisation from malicious actors like Andrew Tate

      Why do they always have to go for the most difficult and least effective option

    27. Overstaying_579 on

      It is estimated that at least 236 million websites have some kind of pornographic material on it.

      Good luck trying to regulate them all, Ofcom. You can’t even regulate 700 TV channels.

      Even if you could, people would just start using VPNs to bypass it. Only a idiot would even consider putting their personal information on a porn website that in most cases are not trustworthy.

      Besides, everyone loves to talk about how bad pornographic content is, but no one ever talks about extremely graphic and disturbing content like those infamous cartel videos. It seems like we’re living in an age where watching someone getting killed on camera is considered less taboo than consensual adult sex.