UK plans age verification for porn websites from 2018

Ha, basically this also an attack on any level of anonymity as well. Who the hell wants their identity tied to the stuff they access online?

This will cause more harm than what it intends to protect "the children" from. It'll force kids to go to the darker places of the web where the light can't be as focused on the bad actors.
 
Fubsy said:
Ha, basically this also an attack on any level of anonymity as well. Who the hell wants their identity tied to the stuff they access online?

This will cause more harm than what it intends to protect "the children" from. It'll force kids to go to the darker places of the web where the light can't be as focused on the bad actors.
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My view is that this is more about removing anonymity than it is about protecting children. Control is always brought in slowly, targeting something most people would agree with (such as protecting children). Once the precedent is set then the law is stretched to include other areas too, such as Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, et. It's presented as simply an extension of an existing law and almost waved through with no discussion.
 
china successfully blocks specific foreign IP addresses, and controls vpn for that matter

well problem has been running/unaddressed since debut of internet - I need 2fa to log into amazon/oc, so why not for porn sites - locking auth into a age certified phone sounds more secure.
 
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How would this even apply to websites not hosted in the U.K.? I would have thought they would be out of scope of U.K. law?
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Plenty of US websites already voluntarily block UK/EU traffic as they don't want to adhere to GDPR. I'd imagine this will be the same. Sites will opt to block UK traffic to remove any risk of litigation.
 
All the government needed to do was to have UK ISP's create an 'adult' filter that would cover all the sites and turn it on as default.

Then in order to turn it off they could have the account holder call.
 
BowdonUK said:
All the government needed to do was to have UK ISP's create an 'adult' filter that would cover all the sites and turn it on as default.

Then in order to turn it off they could have the account holder call.
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Didnt one or two of the ISP already implement something like this, as part of a family package.
 
BowdonUK said:
All the government needed to do was to have UK ISP's create an 'adult' filter that would cover all the sites and turn it on as default.

Then in order to turn it off they could have the account holder call.
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I’m fairly sure most if not all ISPs already do this, I’ve certainly been asked when I have changed providers in the past.

I think this is one of those well intentioned things that sounds good on paper but will have precisely zero impact on stopping ‘children’ from watching porn. You don’t just stumble across that kind of content by accident these days, people find it because they are looking for it.

The other glaring issue is that a simple Google search will tell you how to bypass the restrictions with a browser extension or VPN etc.

Haven’t they pretty much given up on trying to block piracy related content because trying to block it basically has zero impact.
 
I thought they ditched this idea as unworkable, as they cant do anything about sites hosted outside the UK (and most probably are). Its also trivial to bypass any URL filtering they put in, just dont use your ISP's DNS service or use a VPN/TOR.
 
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Nasher said:
I thought they ditched this idea as unworkable, as they cant do anything about sites hosted outside the UK (and most probably are). Its also trivial to bypass any URL filtering they put in, just dont use your ISP's DNS service or use a VPN/TOR.
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they want to bury the other news by announcing this.
 
Any foreign-hosted website that gets threatened with a fine of 10% of their annual worldwide turnover from OFCOM in the UK will just laugh their asses off while just flat-out blocking all UK traffic from then on.

Waste of time. Proper solution is to start sex education earlier and tell kids that porn isn't reality and acting like that in real life is probably going to get you slapped, dumped, or slapped and then dumped.
 
BowdonUK said:
All the government needed to do was to have UK ISP's create an 'adult' filter that would cover all the sites and turn it on as default.

Then in order to turn it off they could have the account holder call.
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This doesnt work as Sky has a filter that doesnt work correctly as it blocks some perfectly fine sites (I had a issue where I eventually found out that I could not play gta5 before 9pm lol) yet all mainstream social media platforms are whitelisted and the content posted on it so its completely pointless.

I'm going to take a guess that other filters are the same also.

Social media is just as much if not more damaging to peoples health and wellbeing as adult content.
 
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As I said in the other thread this is more about dogma, agenda and using emotive issues for ulterior motives (including distracting people from other news) than about whatever it purports to be or what actually is the best approach. Sadly it will probably be pushed through with little opposition.
 
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