Honestly, this is pretty scary. I'm guessing this comes with the new Investigatory Powers Act they released last year but it's also something that's potentially pretty dangerous. If this was to go through - which inevitably seems like it will - and you're forced to provide verification (credit card details or whatever) this same information could easily be used against you. I mean I certainly wouldn't see it as being uncommon if this was to happen, whether it's by the government or by potential breaches of the site - which would then only result in information of users being leaked. It really does seem like an invasion of privacy, one that I don't think was at all necessary.
'Companies breaking the rules set out in the Digital Economy Act face being blocked by their internet provider.' The fact that even now they can control what sites we can/cannot access (I know this has already been happening, yet it's still pretty amazing how nobody bats an eye at any of this, or the minimal amount of people who are made aware...)
I don't know, this is all kind of hard to comprehend. It feels like the first step to an Orwellian society.
Honestly, this is pretty scary. I'm guessing this comes with the new Investigatory Powers Act they released last year but it's also something that's potentially pretty dangerous. If this was to go through - which inevitably seems like it will - and you're forced to provide verification (credit card details or whatever) this same information could easily be used against you. I mean I certainly wouldn't see it as being uncommon if this was to happen, whether it's by the government or by potential breaches of the site - which would then only result in information of users being leaked. It really does seem like an invasion of privacy, one that I don't think was at all necessary.
I don't know, this is all kind of hard to comprehend. It feels like the first step to an Orwellian society.
Phew I'm nearly 18
Pretty sure this won't happen. Weren't the government suppose to bad porn last year?
Not sure but the way the article is written makes it seem as if it's final, this could really be happening.
I'm sure there is no way that they can fully ban it. Websites can pop up all the time, you can even see porn on youtube which is ridiculous. The internet is like a virus and there is no way to stop it. Let alone the people who will download 10tb of porn just to share with everyone lol
as a porn addict and on a100 day streak and on a 2.5 years year journey on no fap fapastronaut i can say thank **** for that. wish i never ever saw any of it. hope kids avoid it too
It is one of those odd things that is rather emotive. I understand the need for age verification because we are now in a world where teenagers get their sex education from porn. As a result, girls grow up thinking that the default state is that all men want to *** all over them, that in sex women must always be subservient and that they must have surgery to tidy up their genitalia. But it seems to me that the solution to this would be to provide proper sex and relationship education that acknowledges that sex is fun but also talks about loving relationships of all hues and colours. All this legislation will actually do is force people to use VPNs.
"All this means that while we can enjoy the freedom of the web, the UK will have the most robust internet child protection measures of any country in the world."
In other words, the freedom of the web is only for adults. And they wonder why swarms of young people vote Labour?