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Comment on It's ba-ack... UK watchdog publishes age verification proposals

Requiring age verification for porn is such a stupid idea. Firstly, what’s the definition of “porn”? Should people be blocked from looking at Michelangelo’s David? Where precisely is the line between what’s porn and what isn’t, and why should anybody have the right to impose that? Secondly, it’s unenforceable. On any website where people can submit content, they can submit porn that children might see. Should we block them all, then? That goes for all social media. It goes for anywhere people can leave comments/reviews. It goes for every basket-weaving forum. Since it’s obviously impossible to make a dent, why bother at all? And what about Google Images? What about sites with generative AI? Websites aren’t the only porn on the Internet either. I torrented porn when I was 13. Discord exists. Video games exist. What’s stopping people just making their own and sharing it? Absolutely boneheaded idea. It’s so stupid, that it makes me think the real reason is more nefarious, and “saving the children” is just propaganda.

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Ummdustry@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I think the propaganda is the nefarious reason.

Tories have been talking about this since at least the coalition, if they had really wanted to impliment something like this they would’ve. The fact they haven’t implies:

They don’t actually want it. Judging on recent scandals any chaste puritans in the tory party are so far in the back benches as to be blind to any goings on up front.

They want to keep talking about it. See also: immigration. They know they have shit policies in every other area, so they need ‘vote winners’ among their core demographic (50 and over). Hence: save the kids, stop the boats, shag the flag. Labour and Lib-dems are never going to be able to present themselves as credible in these areas because of their historical leanings, so the tories don’t actually need to back up their promises with any actual ‘progress’ on these issues.
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Emperor@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Reddit is full of it, or so I’m told, and there’s a few NSFW Lemmy communities out there, allegedly.

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- zemja@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I’ll have to make sure I keep an eye out for them so that I can avoid them.
  
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BruceTwarzen@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
That's a good point. I was dating a girl who said her ex would only get off of feet. Feet fetish is kinda huge (i think) so feet IS someone's porn, while for other people it's just feet, or more so just gross.

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- zemja@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Reminds me of this YouTube channel (@Flocflocus), where a guy soaks himself in water while clothed. It’s not explicitly sexual, but I’d be surprised if it wasn’t a fetish.
  
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- Ummdustry@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  the wonderful world of the internet
  
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