Submitted 11 months ago by thehatfox@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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.
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.
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Pornographic content that consists only of text is not covered by today’s guidelines.
Ao3 users can’t stop winning.
I always thought that it’s Erotic Literature and not Text Pornographic… Since text isn’t graphic.
Since text isn’t graphic.
Sounds like someone’s never seen ASCII porn before.
Its amazing how excluding the smut tag practically drops at least 50% of the stories, sometimes more depending on the fandom
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…
Who have illegal seed behind closed doors
Please elaborate
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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Will be as successful as last time
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.
The EU forced Usb-C not the UK.
The UK is no longer a member of the EU.
The Idea that the UK is claiming the successes of the EU after Brexit is amusing.
Guess that goes to show just how little I know about the UK and EU.
What did they do to apple?
Made phones require a USBC port and I also believe they also tried to pass some pro right to repair bills.
The government and the courts are different things and they don’t like each other.
The UK government and the EU courts. Yes. Very different things
Why don’t they just announce that they’ve done it?
It’s only bigoted religious 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.
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.
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.
They would find more if they asked them in front of their partners lol
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 bomb 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.
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.
Same kind of “public” as the The Ritz: anybody can spend a night there as long as they have the 400 quid a night to pay for it.
We should abolish online porn entirely.
A reduction in incels will reduce the number of white supremacists.
Because, historically, prohibition of [x] has been a highly effective strategy with no downsides whatsoever.
If you ban bank heist movies like Ocean's Eleven, people will stop robbing banks
It’s a casino heist movie, you uncultured swine.
How would that reduce the number of incels?
“Trust me bro”
It wouldn’t
So you want an increase in rapes?
Sex is a big part of life.
Porn is just an extension of that.
Anyone who needs violent porn as a “sexual release” to avoid raping women belongs in a mental hospital. The entire idea of catharsis is nonsense and counterproductive.
Super obvious troll is super obvious
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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?
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Source: teenagers caught in the act by their parents
burliman@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I used to accidentally find nudie mags in the woods with my friends. Why didn’t these guys do anything for me and my forest safety?
darkdemize@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Kids these days will never get to experience the joy of finding woods porn.
troyunrau@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Outside the box solution: don’t age restrict access to porn. Every teenager is going to get it anyway.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Couldn’t agree more if I cared to try.
Methinks this is much more about controlling and surveilling adults than “protecting” children from porn. If it was ever really about the latter at all.
Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 11 months ago
Teenagers would get porn before the Internet. Before printed porn they'd carve it into cave walls. The "fertility goddesses" they find all over the neolithic are probably porn.
mannycalavera@feddit.uk 11 months ago
We’ll… I mean… it doesn’t exactly accidentally come out of you. You have to be touching it for some time.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Lonely Island would beg to differ