UK plans age verification for porn websites from 2018

harry5522 said:
Like **** am i giving any porno sites my credit card details.
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As Screeeech said it'll probably done at the ISP/DNS server level similar to how they block torrent sites, except they'll add a login screen? even then though if you know the actual IP's you can circumvent it.
 
So, the UK government wants to do the following:
  • Encourage people to hand over credit card details to porn site operators
  • Force people to provide socially embarrassing information to untrusted parties.
  • Increase overlap between mild non-standard porn and more serious things such as underage porn and snuff porn by making the mild non-standard porn only available from the same illegal sources as others. Much the same way less harmful drugs can be gateways to more harmful drugs because you have to go to the same people due to criminalisation of the former.
  • Declare for other people what is and isn't sexual morality for them.
  • Make larger and more legitimate porn sites less desirable than smaller and dodgier ones who can flout the laws.
N.b. a couple of the above tie into specific implementations. Namely that May's government is very puritan and believes porn itself is morally wrong.

To those simply saying "VPN", they are correct that it will be trivial to avoid this measure but there are a few further things to keep in mind:
  • This is one more move in the chess game. That it doesn't mean check does not mean that it isn't an advance by your opponent that has consequences.
  • For a police state, everybody must be guilty so that anybody can be charged at any time. Criminalising common behaviour achieves this and as using a VPN to avoid such checks will undoubtedly be illegal, vast swathes of people will suddenly become "guilty" and thus subject to targetting should there be a reason to find something on them later.
  • This will later be used as a justification for outlawing / backdooring VPNs because the very obvious next step is to show that VPNs are being used to access "illegal porn". Why is it illegal? Because the government made it so. That is what we are seeing today.
  • The government can still go after the porn companies themselves if they do not implement this. Most would to prevent them losing chunks of a large market like the UK. So will those of other countries. Customers using VPNs will only mitigate this somewhat, not prevent it.
 
From what I recall, when Hameron first mentioned bringing this in, it was said that any sites not covering the new laws would be blocked in blighty.
No doubt it'd just be a simple VPN to get past that, but as others have said, VPNs will be banned next.

Also, considering how they plan to ban encryption, how can they think that giving out your personal info' & bank/credit card details to an online site will be safe.

Aah, that's right. The dinosaurs in govt don't understand any of the problems the rest of the world can see in plain sight.

I bet if there was a site for fellating severed Pigs heads, it'd get special treatment :p
 
Theresa may can **** off honestly...

Oh no porn is such a huge issue... we definitely need this right now.

****... right..... off.

Zero5 said:
Maybe we'll go back to porn mags in ditches. That's how I kept finding porn before the internet.
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Yep,

We stole my friends dads Hustler magazine when I was like 8.
 
Oh no... it's not as if there aren't plenty of ways around this, there are entirely "innocent" sites that have a plethora of naughty ****, this will never touch it.

HAR HAR Mein Fuhrer May.
 
funny really how this is an example of failing democracy.

this isn't a law for the people, the people don't want it, but the fact it's not something people are going to be vocal about makes it free game.

the thing is, if it's a law people don't want nor have any inclination to obey except purely to avoid charges then it's not a law, it's a totalitarian dictation.
 
How about a large van that has a 20' lettering "PORN VAN" that blares out music from loudspeakers "THIS IS THE PORN VAN" and the you have to come out and press a big red button and then it blares out "HORNETSTINGER WATCHES PORN" This then registers you to allow you to view porn websites.
 
Given up on encryption so soon? :(

I for one welcome the blocks they will end underage viewing of pornography just like they have wiped out paedophilia and pirate sites...

2020 VPN ban.
 
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