Summary
Under the UK’s Online Safety Act, all websites hosting pornography, including social media platforms, must implement “robust” age verification methods, such as photo ID or credit card checks, for UK users by July.
Regulator Ofcom claims this is to prevent children from accessing explicit content, as research shows many are exposed as young as nine.
Critics, including privacy groups and porn sites, warn the measures could drive users to less-regulated parts of the internet, raising safety and privacy concerns.
How long do they calculate until personal porn information is leaked?
Id give a rough estimate of > 3 years until some DB gets rocked due to infostealers or some shit.
Would this be an appropriate cultural moment to pimp FUTO ID or something similar for (I think?) legitimate human online verification?
This is why we need decentralized, open source porn websites.
So, head on over to LemmyNSFW.com and upload a pic of your junk.
I’m shy, I’ll just dm you instead.
Visit pornhub in any state or country where its banned or censored via the Tor Network, Onion URL at http://pornhubthbh7ap3u.onion/.
I thought this was a USAmerican headline, but it’s the UK 🤣 There will be another spike in VPN purchases, won’t there? (Probably Proton VPN if people haven’t read about their pro-MAGA stance).
UK may be taking a slightly different path, but we’ll both end up in the same shithole at the end. Incredible.
Back when the Snowden revelations came out the UK was worse than the US when it came to civil society surveillance and unlike the US, the Government there just retroactivelly legalized all that their NSA-equivalent (the GCHQ) did with no restrictions.
Oh, and the UK Press has a censorship mechanism called D-Notices.
In this domain the UK is already worse than the US, probably because the idea that the populus should know their place and be led by “their betters” is pretty old in Britain and, at least for the elites, the thinking about the relation between power and the people never significativelly evolved away from the original thinking in Absolute Monarchies, since the political and power structures there are still anchored on a Monarchy.
Germany had these kinds of laws since before the internet, that is, “are you 18?” questions simply weren’t judged adequate to fulfil the pre-existing requirements.
Net result is that there’s no German porn sites, and the big search engines filter their results. Which doesn’t mean that you can’t get porn everywhere, it just means that kids are learning a particular subset of the English lexicon quite early once they seek it out which is perfectly fine under German law as with anything youth protection it’s not supposed to stop determined kids, once they’re determined they’re individually old enough, it’s supposed to limit casual exposure.
The distinction Germany makes is “targeted at a German market/audience”. So if your domain isn’t on .de, if your payment options aren’t Germany-specific, ideally if you don’t even have a German UI translation, none of that stuff applies to you. Authorities will just ignore you.
Unless the UK is going down the Saudi route of blocking foreign sites, the exact same thing will happen. There’s always going to be some jurisdiction with lax youth protection laws where porn sites can set up their legal headquarters.
The UK trots out legislation like this every few years.
So far, it’s not gone through.
However, to paraphrase a parasomething, “You have to defeat the proposal every time, we just have to make it law once”
What is it with western countries thinking they can bureaucracy their way through any issue.
This won’t stop anything. Won’t even slow it down. Just teach people how to navigate the net better.
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Okay chief. How bout you verify the ID’S of UK politicians who visit Asia for kids?
I guess it’s harder on them as well since Epstein got killed, the royal nonce is also less dignified nowadays.
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Its estimated that this will stop underage people accessing porn for at least 30 seconds while they download tor browser
Right? You can’t stop the porn and these barriers is only to create an artificial market.
But whatever. The more people become anonymous on the internet, the better.
Need to invest on VPNs
Remember to apply this to 4chan, UK.
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uses vpn, lies about age and manages to access porn site, despite claims otherwise
Mission failed successfully
Majority of people are like that Hank Hill meme about jpegs, they don’t know what the hell a VPN is.
I’m sure nobody will instantly search “how to bypass porn check UK”
Looks like I picked the right time to get a girlfriend
Luckily kids don’t know about VPN’s otherwise this entire sharade would be completely usele…
Edit: I think this isn’t enough though. Politicians should be forced to have a public porn history so you can vote by their porn preference. I wouldn’t trust a politician who isn’t into some weird kink stuff. Vanilla people are boring and shouldn’t run a country.
I kinda of wonder if this is a way to try putting the sites out of business. In the US they just don’t bother working in the various states with laws like this.
In the case of Texas and places like that, age verification laws are about being able to call anything they want (like LGBT+ content) “pornographic.” Texas doesn’t care if it works.
Interestingly, Pornhub actually stayed in my state, Louisiana, because — according to their Supreme Court lawyers, yesterday — we have digital IDs and it was apparently trivial to do the checks via some sort of API. Texans would have to upload a photo of their driver’s license or something and there’s major privacy issues.
Also, Louisiana’s law didn’t work. Pornhub, which wants to be mainstream, does ID checks but sketchier sites in other countries don’t. It probably just caused more teens to get malware or be exposed to truly objectionable content (like CSAM).
Good info, thanks
No, they just want to control the internet because they are afraid of it. To be honest, it’s not without reason after the Arab Spring and then the current disinformation wars.
This is not the way to do it though.
We’re really globally going to return to the pre-WWII status quo, aren’t we?
The past 50+ years were an anomaly in humanity’s development, but we all collectively fell for the idea that it was, and would remain, the norm.
How wrong we were.
