UK newsstands will sell ‘porn passes’ to verify ages under new laws

mmj_uk said:
Won't everyone just get their porn through Torrents? then again if this is as successful as the attempts to block Torrent sites people won't need to.

Then again it just sounds like an attempt to make money off of porn.
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I thought everyone already did grab their smut via torrents. We do.
 
The whole thing that looks to me like a drastic overreaction, that's going to be an ineffective waste of money, waste of time and overall waste of effort, thought up by people who just aren't good enough, have no track record in good decision making or providing value to society, or value for money.

Before long they'll be expecting us to enter that HMRC government gateway login thing, into pornhub just so we can have a five-knuckle-shuffle before bed, and of course it'll get hacked and everyone's name and address will appear in a txt file on Reddit, or won't work at all, or you can just VPN around it, or whatever...
 
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Seriously though if this ridiculous law actually happens everyone will just get a VPN
 
This is ridiculous. Will the pass expire? If it does expire then why? Surely I proved I was old enough when I bought it and I never get any younger so why does it expire? If it doesn't expire then what's to stop people selling them online or even just giving them away and buying another? Will sites be forced to cooperate so that you can't sue a pass on more than one site simultaneously to stop sharing? They have absolutely zero idea on how to run this.

If it's anonymous then what's to stop people buying them and selling hem on? If it's not anonymous then the first thing I'll be doing is submitting a freedom of information act to find out which MP's bought a pass.
 
It'll be like the tv licence all over again, constant threats of court action if you even happen to use the internet. Those who occasionally fiddle with the pink oboe will pay up out of habit or fear of the wife finding out and those refusing to pay up and taking 'freeman of the land' style poses will get hassled non stop.

They'll need to set up a new website where people can declare they do not watch pron therefore do not require the smut licence, and subject themselves to routine alone time inspections just to make sure they aren't touching themselves without paying the relevant fee.
 
CREATIVE!11 said:
UK Govt really do just seem like a bunch of old disconnected rich people. They don't seem to understand the internet at all..... it's crazy.
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What makes it worse is that the internet (world wide web) has been mainstream in the UK since 1998. The Rich Boys' Club have had 20 years to adapt, but no, instead, they still write cheques, pay their tax evading schemes bills at the branch and they still use Fahrenheit instead of Celsius.

My old boss was very old fashioned, quite racist at times too. She used her printer all the time, in that she had to print EVERYTHING. E.g. if I email her to do something, sure she'll do it no probs. But then instead of hitting the reply button with "done, kind regards" which is just a few clicks, she'll print my message, then walk over to my office (we didn't work in the same office), pop it on my desk and hand write "done" on it. Mad :mad:

In other news, my granny (aged 89, Lib-Dem) has been fairly paper-less for years using internet banking / eBooks, online tutorials etc, and she does a good effort with troubleshooting on her laptop / tablet before phoning one of us up. Plus, she's very much connected via Facebook, WhatsApp, Dropbox etc.
 
Caracus2k said:
Perhaps they could bundle a scratch card with the pass on it under the foil bit with an old style jazz mag and put it back on the top shelf for a bit of nostalgia to remind anyone over about 40 how such material was predominately available in their younger years?
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They'd have to put it in a hedge for that, since that was where porn mags were predominantly available in my younger years. I don't know why, but it was common enough for us to search hedges for them. Top shelf was unavailable because we weren't old enough back then.

The government has no clue how to implement this law, which isn't surprising given that they have no clue about anything to do with the internet. They don't have much of a clue about anything, but they're especially clueless about the internet. These are the people who said that hashtags could stop child porn online, to give on example of many. That was from the Home Secretary, i.e. as high as it gets for domestic policy. They have no clue at all. My mum has a better understanding of the internet and she knows nothing at all about it and doesn't want to. Her knowledge is nil. They have attained negative knowledge because what they think they know is wrong.

If it was coming from anyone who was even vaguely competent I would be convinced that this law was a false front for more authoritarianism. It is obviously worse than useless for its stated purpose, so the logical conclusion is that it serves another purpose and increasing authoritarianism is the purpose it serves best. However, I think it's possible that they're so clueless and thus so incompetent that they might really think that this law could serve its stated purpose.

This law might stop some adults finding porn online, but it won't stop any adolescents doing so. They'll know the workarounds (and there are workarounds) because they've grown up with the net and understand how to use it.
 
I expect "how to bypass porn age filter" will be the number 1 Google search if this is ever implimented
 
weringo said:
I'm already peed enough at the requirement to ask your ISP to remove the adult filter. My landlady pays for the internet and I haven't had the stomach to ask her to call up Sky so I can watch porn. Fortunately some 12 year old kid has made a video on Youtube showing how to get around the Sky filter :D
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Best option is to use a VPN, for £25 a year Private Internet Access is great for my torrenting and porn needs, I mean I've made sure Plusnet don't filter it but having a VPN feels like a must have with the amount of censoring online.
 
Screeeech said:
The whole thing that looks to me like a drastic overreaction, that's going to be an ineffective waste of money, waste of time and overall waste of effort, thought up by people who just aren't good enough, have no track record in good decision making or providing value to society, or value for money.

Before long they'll be expecting us to enter that HMRC government gateway login thing, into pornhub just so we can have a five-knuckle-shuffle before bed, and of course it'll get hacked and everyone's name and address will appear in a txt file on Reddit, or won't work at all, or you can just VPN around it, or whatever...
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Seems to be the way with an increasing number of this government's policies lately - an attempt to be seen as doing something, that actually achieves very little towards the end it is supposedly implemented for meanwhile being either hugely inconvenient or worse damaging to a large number of law abiding people - but who cares about them.

Same with the new proposed firearms/knife laws - it will do very little to attack the problem supposedly enacted against as 99.99% of that is illegally procured weapons and/or similar along those lines meanwhile hitting perfectly law abiding companies hard especially the smaller ones who will lose a massive amount of trade because of it.
 
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