Adult content - Age Verification system - April 2018

FishFluff said:
Even our government isn't that stupid. They can't ban VPNs without effectively banning people working from home.
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There's a difference between a corporate, access-controlled VPN, and a free for all anonymisation services like AIRVPN, private internet access etc. etc.

Businesses aren't piggybacking of commercial anonymisers who happen to use VPN as a technology. Businesses are using their own VPN which is actually "private".
 
Minusorange said:
How are they going to police and enforce it ?

If a porn site is based in the States or Russia how is the UK going to force them to comply when it's out of their jurisdiction and also how will they prevent UK citizens from accessing if they can't enforce ?

And even if it does become enforceable surely it's just easily skipped over via a VPN ?

Not to mention what about more adult oriented social media sites like VK which is littered with porn and people posting porn to even twitter ?

I'm sure though the government will get their cut of the profits from this glorified porn tax which is likely the main motivation behind it, with the excuse being "protect the vulnerable" which funnily enough never offers any kind of protection

This restriction of things never works because curious minds want to know why it's restricted, how about providing better education on topics like porn & drugs to young minds instead of trying to hide it away from them for as long as possible making them want to have access to it to see what all the fuss is about in the first place.
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If you read the article it tells you how they will enforce it. I think it says something like the big porn sites get put on a grey list. They sign up to this age verification system. Implement it on their site and they they get added to the whitelist. Otherwise they get blacklisted. I imagine that means our ISP's will block access to the site.

Also they will charge offenders 5% of their annual revenue or something....

The issue I have is this data, i.e what sites you signed in to using your age verification ID (linked to your credit card) will get leaked/hacked/sold on at some point. 100%!

On the flip side tho with the proliferation of the internet the next generation have much easier access to much more hardcore porn than we did as kids. So in a sense they have a point.
 
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Businesses don't use VPNs to anonymise their traffic. The don't need it for that purpose. Businesses will log which employee logged onto their system, how long, what they were doing on the intranet etc. It's not the same as an anonymiser service using the VPN as a technology.

Businesses have VPNs set up because they really need a Virtual Network which can traverse standard Internet Protocol through a tunnel.
 
I wonder how much healthier children would be, if the same amount of money and effort, in preventing them from seeing some naked genitalia, was spent on stopping childhood metabolic disease and the mass consumption of junk food.
 
Screeeech said:
I wonder how much healthier children would be, if the same amount of money and effort, in preventing them from seeing some naked genitalia, was spent on stopping childhood metabolic disease and the mass consumption of junk food.
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I don’t know how much is spent on the anti porn business, but I doubt it would make a dent in the other problems you refer to, lovely though it would be to solve those issues.
 
asim18 said:
The problem from the government's side is that most pornstars don't pay their taxes.
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How on earth do you figure that? I’m also not sure how the government restricting access to pornography is related to pornstar’s taxes when a relatively small amount of porn originates in this country.
 
Agree that it's another step at trying to ban vpns.

Just bought mine this black Friday for grand cost of 2.42usd per month
 
opethdisciple said:
If you read the article it tells you how they will enforce it. I think it says something like the big porn sites get put on a grey list. They sign up to this age verification system. Implement it on their site and they they get added to the whitelist. Otherwise they get blacklisted. I imagine that means our ISP's will block access to the site.

Also they will charge offenders 5% of their annual revenue or something....
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How will they charge a company operating outside of the UK though ?

Hell you won't even need a VPN just google unblocked and first result will bypass it like it does for all everything else that gets blacklisted

Seems like a waste of money and time from government, time and money which could be better spent attempting to solve massively more important issues we have in society

Here's a novel idea though how about just letting parents be parents and take responsibility over what their kids are accessing on the internet ? All Nanny stating does is make people incapable of taking responsibility
 
Minusorange said:
Here's a novel idea though how about just letting parents be parents and take responsibility over what their kids are accessing on the internet ? All Nanny stating does is make people incapable of taking responsibility
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We already have optional content filtering, so parents can already manage this. To the extent that content filtering doesn’t stop people now, through use of proxy sites or VPNs or whatever, this new thing won’t either.
 
Vonhelmet said:
We already have optional content filtering, so parents can already manage this. To the extent that content filtering doesn’t stop people now, through use of proxy sites or VPNs or whatever, this new thing won’t either.
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It's utterly stupid that it makes no sense why it should get passed through law when it offers nothing new that current protection offers. If parents can already manage it then why does it need time wasted getting passed it offers nothing new apart from a stealth tax for those not as tech savvy who need a porn fix.

It's like the stupid vaping laws that got passed, I can't buy 100ml of Vaping liquid but I can buy 10 x 10ml bottles and still end up with 100ml and I'm still as likely to drink it as when it was in a 100ml bottle, yet it's fine for me to buy a litre of bleach or other corrosive substance which also offers the same exact risk for accidentally drinking. The only difference now is more packaging is needed, more plastic is needed the bottles so I'm now contributing to more pollution in the world.. good job law

The world is just stupid
 
Vonhelmet said:
How on earth do you figure that? I’m also not sure how the government restricting access to pornography is related to pornstar’s taxes when a relatively small amount of porn originates in this country.
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Exactly. If the porn doesn't originate in this country then the porn stars aren't paying UK tax are they?
 
Poor kids of today ... if it wasn't for online porn during my childhood I would still think you pee'd in a women to create babies and that cutting a small hole in a condom would save you from STI's but allow for pregnancy ...

It also taught me how to please a women! Country is gonna be full of 40 year old virgins soon enough!
 
asim18 said:
Exactly. If the porn doesn't originate in this country then the porn stars aren't paying UK tax are they?
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Mainstream Hollywood films don’t originate in this country, but no one is fretting about mainstream Hollywood actors not paying uk tax on their films being watched in the uk...
 
Hiijinx said:
Poor kids of today ... if it wasn't for online porn during my childhood I would still think you pee'd in a women to create babies and that cutting a small hole in a condom would save you from STI's but allow for pregnancy ...

It also taught me how to please a women! Country is gonna be full of 40 year old virgins soon enough!
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I cant feel sorry for the kids of today.

Downloading porn on dialup was beyond painful and you had to invest serious time in it to get what you wanted.:cool:

Multiple sites with password share sites, Porn hub was a just a dream.

The kids today have HD moving images, what I could have done at Uni with that sort of technology.
 
This is going to be highly damaging to the UK economy. All the business is going to go from the UK websites to foreign ones as no one is going to enter their card details just to get on the home page.
 
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