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UK to introduce porn age-checks in July

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Maybe by the amount of traffic those pages have in comparison to the amount of traffic the porn has?

You're right though, it's ludicrous. This is a perfect example of a law made by people who don't understand technology. What better to expect from our Government, though? :rolleyes:
how do i install a vnp on my computer?
Also, something else I forgot to mention is that yeah sure, stopping young kids from getting porn is a good idea. But what are those kids gonna think when a page with big red letters says 'YOU MUST BE 18 OR OVER TO VIEW THIS WEBSITE. PLEASE ENTER YOUR DETAILS OR CODE OF PORNOGRAPHY PASS HERE.'? Probably, 'I wonder what this stuff is, I should try getting into it'. Children are curious creatures and will find ways around bans.
do you think that they will block myvidster as well?
If it's deemed to have less than 1/3 of it's content be porn, then no. Although if it's a relatively unknown site it should be safe regardless. I imagine it will only be the big players like Pornhub and it's associates, Xvideos, XNXX etc. that will get blocked at first.

(Don't ask me why I know about so many porn sites)
Original post by sqrt of 5
do you think that they will block myvidster as well?
Original post by Cryoraptor
When I was saying 'incompetence', the technical side of things is what I was alluding to. But considering the recent steps the government has taken in relation to the internet, it's not unfounded to say that it's trying to bring the internet under it's control.

Of course, wanting to protect young children from sexually explicit material is a good idea. But it's not the government's responsibility. It's up to parents to limit access to certain websites and install an adblocker to stop explicit ads from appearing. I don't need the government to raise my children for me.


Young children don't want to access porn.Its not like porn randomly drops onto your screen.You have to search for it.Anybody who actually searches for it seriously is probably old enough to see it.If they want to be taken seriously on this they should first sort out the discrepancy between age of consent and age of porn viewing.

They might also consider sorting out the ludicrous situation whereby taking a naked picture of yourself when under 18 is an offence.Taking a picture of yourself should not be considered as producing child porn.
I never said it was only a UK problem. Of course, governments everywhere are trying to control the internet and some already have.

You could argue about those things, but I don't think porn is really the same. All those things apart from the watershed involve the child actually doing something that could be harmful to them, and with the watershed, parents are partially responsible for that because it's up to them to get their kids to bed before 9PM. With porn, it's just watching the sexual act, and in this day and age, the majority of children are introduced to 'real' sex by porn. I think children sort of know when they're ready to view things like that anyway, because they start looking for it; I know I did. Children don't typically search for sexually explicit material unless they want to see it. If a child doesn't want to see that kind of stuff, they won't look for it or they look away if it comes on spontaneously. Of course there are things like explicit ads popping up but things like that are solved by adblockers. Ime explicit adds usually only come up on dodgy streaming sites and porn sites themselves.

And yes, I'm well aware that most parents aren't as tech-savvy as their children. That's one of the things that make it sound like a not too bad idea. The trouble comes from the conservatives' motives. They have a history of being against porn and back in 2015 I believe, they outlined certain kinds of porn that they wanted to ban entirely. It never came to fruition but clearly the idea was still there. Then back in 2017 we have all the hate speech ******** laws that started targeting people for either stupid throwaway comments or genuine opinions. Restricting porn is just the next step to control of the internet. It's an easy way to build their base of external website blockers. After that, all they have to do is add new websites they don't like- I mean pose a threat to the public to their blocker. Trust me, there will be more categories of websites they ban. Next will probably be things like 4chan and liveleak. After that, they'll try and make it look like twitter and facebook are full of far-right scumbags or whatever and get rid of them, or turn them into a leftservative zombie form of it's current self. After that, they'll start targeting websites that routinely disagree with them, making them look extremist. This will continue until the UK internet is completely government-run and a lot of foreign websites are completely blocked (they won't go as far as NK as that would cause civil war as well as cyber war).

That is of course if they are voted back in in 2022 and 2027. Considering how bad Corbyn and SNP are (Ian Blackford is my new political enemy), and how little power the Lib Dems have, they probably will. Our country is run by complete idiots.
Much agreed. I go on to mention this point in my next post.
Original post by AJ126
Young children don't want to access porn.Its not like porn randomly drops onto your screen.You have to search for it.Anybody who actually searches for it seriously is probably old enough to see it.If they want to be taken seriously on this they should first sort out the discrepancy between age of consent and age of porn viewing.

They might also consider sorting out the ludicrous situation whereby taking a naked picture of yourself when under 18 is an offence.Taking a picture of yourself should not be considered as producing child porn.
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Time to move to France. Oh **** brexit...
France is not much better with all the political unrest
Original post by idk01
Time to move to France. Oh **** brexit...
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Yeah but they're all addicted to sex so there's no way they'd restrict porn
Original post by Cryoraptor
France is not much better with all the political unrest
Original post by Cryoraptor
They have a history of being against porn and back in 2015 I believe, they outlined certain kinds of porn that they wanted to ban entirely. It never came to fruition but clearly the idea was still there.

Think that went through, it's now illegal to film stuff like facesitting and watersports in this country.
Original post by Themysticalegg
My life is ruined, discuss! (Joking)
Definitely will be using a VPN. :biggrin: Not a fan of age checks nor do I want my private information leaked.

Source:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-47960775

haha, about time (werent they supposed to introduce this a year or 2 ago?). This is great news and should act as a deterent for those addicted to the stuff / kids watching it. Also proxies arent always safe (i'd rather use a good old fashioned LAN for sensitive stuff info transmission than VPN via wifi). 1 of my mates did also mention that some pornsites dont work if you use a VPN, so that kinda defeats the purpose of using one to view porn does it not?
Original post by miniminx3310
what a stupid scheme xD
honestly more horny teens, oh lord !!

u18s will just find it easy to bypass it via proxy webs/ use twitter etcc
further, how are they meant to honestly verify it... *face palm*

I dont get how u cant watch porn until ur 18, but can be doing it at 16 as well....

I think they need to be concentrating on filtering out the weird stuff on the web rather than restricting all of it- thats if the gov really wants to make an impact anyhow


arent most teens horny anyways? in anycase, I have seen people in their 80s on viagra /cialis (although curiously, I have only seen 1 person on alprostadil).

Im actually surprised twitter doesnt introduce something like this as its pretty easy to see stuff on public profiles. but I do agree with your points otherwise.
Don't think a few traditional protestors that have some unruly elements, is nearly as bad as UKs instability. Literally playing with the economic fortunes of the whole nation on TV weekly.

Bet the UK parliament would trade a yellow vest movement....instead of ever having that damn referendum to begin with lol.
Original post by Cryoraptor
France is not much better with all the political unrest
Original post by quasa
haha, about time (werent they supposed to introduce this a year or 2 ago?). This is great news and should act as a deterent for those addicted to the stuff / kids watching it. Also proxies arent always safe (i'd rather use a good old fashioned LAN for sensitive stuff info transmission than VPN via wifi). 1 of my mates did also mention that some pornsites dont work if you use a VPN, so that kinda defeats the purpose of using one to view porn does it not?


arent most teens horny anyways? in anycase, I have seen people in their 80s on viagra /cialis (although curiously, I have only seen 1 person on alprostadil).

Im actually surprised twitter doesnt introduce something like this as its pretty easy to see stuff on public profiles. but I do agree with your points otherwise.

Proxies probably aren't always safe and um pornsites do work on VPN :colondollar: (May of turned it on the 1st of April thinking the UK introduced the new system)
My favourite Russian social media site will be unaffected so I don't care.
Original post by Decahedron
My favourite Russian social media site will be unaffected so I don't care.

I love VK.
Same here lol, was pleasantly surprised to see it was all a load of hot air once again
Original post by Themysticalegg
Proxies probably aren't always safe and um pornsites do work on VPN :colondollar: (May of turned it on the 1st of April thinking the UK introduced the new system)
Pointless really. Government getting involved for its own sake. It's so easy to bypass region specific things like this it isn't even funny, it just forces the computer illiterate to fork over private info a company shouldn't need.
Original post by Themysticalegg
My life is ruined, discuss! (Joking)
Definitely will be using a VPN. :biggrin: Not a fan of age checks nor do I want my private information leaked.

Source:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-47960775


You don't need to because it will be delayed, again.

Has been delayed twice already. It was supposed to be introduced last year.

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