Want to watch porn in Britain? Get your passport ready
Want to watch porn in Britain? Get your passport ready
New ID checks kick in next year amid a fierce global debate between child protection groups and privacy warriors.
Research indicates younger ids who stumble across porn accidentally can find it shocking and disturbing although the majority of young people surveyed in a 2020 British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) report said this didn't impact them in the long term.
Nobody is visiting porn sites accidentally anymore. This ain't the 90s. They don't pop up in any mainstream search engines by default.
Unless this includes not only porn sites but any site that might potentially host porn (like Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, or really any site with user-uploaded content), this argument is invalid (as well as specious).
I imagine that the kids of today are spending more time on one platform like Reddit or tiktok, so it becomes more up to the platforms to keep sexual content separate. I know it used to be easy to go on r/all and accidentally see porn, not sure if that's a thing anymore
reddit requires you to go out of your way to enable nsfw. tiktok is pretty heavy handed in moderation, but i still get some spam videos of nsfw content
Reddit exlcluded porn from showing up in all
Same thing happens here. I was scrolling c/All at the doctor's office and there it is.
Kids are mostly on tiktok
What's the ACTUAL anti-porn motivation the right has? It's not protecting children, the right HATE children. How does banning porn make old people richer? Somebody follow the money for me.
This is about control. If you're forced to upload ID, the government instantly has a watch list of people and associated sites. Then there's the flexibility of the definition of porn. Once the legislation is in, anything regarding sex, sexuality, or gender education gets quietly reclassified. Because you know, to these people being anything but straight is inherently pornographic. Then you have a watch list of potential LGBT+ people and allies to harass.
Not only that but between the various web tracking technologies that advertisers use and people's reuse of credentials for convenience you now have an easier way to associate a real identity with a specific person as they browse the internet. A boon to advertisers and other interested parties alike.
Normalising intensive tracking of internet activity seems exactly up the Conservative government's alley. Oh well, we already do it for X, maybe now we should do it for Y... you know, for the safety of children of course. It just so happens that safety requires that there be no aspect of your life that goes unmonitored by GCHQ.
As someone not living in Britain, this headline reads like an invitation.
Fuck that, I'm not flying to Britain to watch porn.
what is a “virtual private network”, Alex
British populace taking a shot at the Crown of dumbest populace in the world.
Considering TERF island are all time champions it's a given that as always they'll go home with a gold medal in this one, however my sources predict a loss in the "have a sufficiently functional state apparatus to actually enforce such a law" competition.
Passport is an interesting way to spell VPN.
Or you know, VPN.
I can vouch for airvpn if any of you poor saps need to get one. I've been through several and settled on airvpn in the end.
General rule if you see YouTube sponsor ads for a VPN steer the other way. (IE Nord, Surfshark, etc.)
We have no infrastructure to support this ban, just like when ISPs were ordered to block porn by default. Nothing ever happens.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Porn perusers will soon have to prove their age by uploading an identity document like a passport, registering a credit card, presenting their face to AI-powered scanning technology, or using a handful of other methods outlined in draft guidance from the regime’s regulator, Ofcom.
Although initially missing from the U.K.’s next attempt at internet regulation, pressure from children’s charities, age verification providers and vocal parliamentarians persuaded the government to revamp the defunct regime through the Online Safety Act.
Many videos depict graphic and degrading abuse of women, sickening acts of rape and incest, and many underage participants,” Tory MP Miriam Cates, a strong advocate for the legislation, told the House of Commons in September.
Research indicates younger kids who stumble across porn accidentally can find it shocking and disturbing — although the majority of young people surveyed in a 2020 British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) report said this didn’t impact them in the long term.
But the issue is complicated: the BBFC report found that older teens said they watched porn for educational purposes, due to a lack of information about sex in schools, or for gratification, while half of the LGBTQ+ respondents said it had helped them understand and explore their sexual identity.
“The squeamishness associated with pornography has made it nearly impossible to have a mature discussion about the technical feasibility, trade-offs, and effectiveness of age verification mandates,” says Matthew Lesh, director of public policy and communications at the free-market think tank.
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Get your VPN ready.