I mean, the government could tackle homelessness, or end child hunger, many appropriate subjects. But instead they want to regulate jerk-off material. Sad.
They are way more concerned with genitals than they should be.
Our genitals at that.
This might be a big nitpick, but “Child Protection Groups”, vs “Privacy Warriors”, sounds sleazy.
As positive connotations as possible on one side, vaguely negative on the other.
Didn’t you know? The right to privacy somehow only protects adults and not children.
To conservatives, children don’t have rights. You protect them like you would protect property, by putting it under lock and key.
Discounting VPNs for a moment…
What if one person made an account with ID and then the entirety of the country just happened to know the login?
Usr: admin Pass: admin
Basically the idea of https://bugmenot.com
Pretty positive this is going to end up being a DNS level block that will be as simple as setting a dns server outside of the UK to bypass.
Because anything else would create an unbelievable amount of administrative overhead.
Also imagine the spike in identity theft this is going to cause.
China: “Hold my Tsing Tao”
Headlines next year: “VPN subscriptions in the UK up 42069% for some reason”
I truly appreciate the number you used. Chef’s kiss
Followed by headline: “Torries Criminalize VPN Use, Require Use of Torrie-Owned VPN”
The fuck is a Torrie?
British Conservatives.
The plural of Tory with an extra R.
Conserva-tory
An authoritarian wanker
As a quote in the article states, porn is the canary in the coal mine - with some MPs apparently advocating for blocking VPNs to prevent work arounds.
How are they going to block VPNs?
Block ports associated with popular protocols is one method.
In terms of blocking VPNs reliably? Not much you can do afaik, you can even do VPN over websockets.
There’s nothing stopping you from operating a vpn on 443.
Tell me the MPs don’t understand VPN technology without telling me the MPs don’t understand VPN technology.
Why listen to experts who can explain all this technology when I get it from Facebook!
probably also haters of wfh.
its always nice that they want your official id associated with your porn. i just want to see what happens when that database gets hacked.
Steve Shives?
you got me.
I hope this encourages children to learn an important life skill that will help them in numerous ways: Piracy.
You want children to watch porn?
Oh the humanity. They might get deeply inaccurate ideas about the perks of pizza delivery.
Kids will do that either way when they get to that age.
I was beating my meat like a boxer with a speedbag to the Playboy magazines I found when I was 11. And that was well before the internet was available. Kids are gonna find something to whack/flick it to, get over it.
Remember those mail-order catalogues? Specifically the women’s underwear section. Horny teenagers are going to find something. And they have a vivid imagination.
lmao at boxer at a speedbag its so apt but still so fucking funny.
I was looking at porn by 11ish, so sure. Imagine making people wait until 18 or 21.
Do you also have issue with them watching action movies with people dying?
People being decapitated = okay for kids!
Woman’s nipple = NOOOOOOOO!!!
I watched Apocalypto for a school paper at age 15 (from a list of options given to me), and honestly I think some softcore porn would have been better. Some rated R stuff is fine for a kid to watch, Apocalypto definitely wasn’t.
Also that same year I researched and did presentations on Chinese history (was a prehistorical to maybe a couple hundred years ago timeline) and at least in my research I covered things like the foot tying thing (to make feet smaller) and that didn’t prepare me for the scene in Marco Polo (I think on Netflix) where that happened (and I didn’t finish the episode or continue the series because it’s just too fucked up).
Porn can be fucked up, some porn is definitely NSFL, but there are a lot of things that are so much worse than the average porn site.
I wish they actually tried to “protect the children” but the politicians are very clearly not.
I think he just meant that children are the most likely to uhhh, find a way.
I watched porn as a teen. Look, maybe in America you’re all puritans or whatever, but I started looking at magazines when I was 13 and then later found online porn (and hell I was LATE to the game according to my classmates). This is a reality y’all have to come to terms with. Teens watch porn.
Do you think this will stop them?
It’s honestly stupid. They just go to less moderated sites, or if you’re lucky, learn how to use a VPN and bypass all this nonsense anyway.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Porn perusers will soon have to prove their age by uploading an identity document like a passport, registering a credit card, presenting their face to AI-powered scanning technology, or using a handful of other methods outlined in draft guidance from the regime’s regulator, Ofcom.
Although initially missing from the U.K.’s next attempt at internet regulation, pressure from children’s charities, age verification providers and vocal parliamentarians persuaded the government to revamp the defunct regime through the Online Safety Act.
Many videos depict graphic and degrading abuse of women, sickening acts of rape and incest, and many underage participants,” Tory MP Miriam Cates, a strong advocate for the legislation, told the House of Commons in September.
Research indicates younger kids who stumble across porn accidentally can find it shocking and disturbing — although the majority of young people surveyed in a 2020 British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) report said this didn’t impact them in the long term.
But the issue is complicated: the BBFC report found that older teens said they watched porn for educational purposes, due to a lack of information about sex in schools, or for gratification, while half of the LGBTQ+ respondents said it had helped them understand and explore their sexual identity.
“The squeamishness associated with pornography has made it nearly impossible to have a mature discussion about the technical feasibility, trade-offs, and effectiveness of age verification mandates,” says Matthew Lesh, director of public policy and communications at the free-market think tank.
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Although initially missing from the U.K.’s next attempt at internet regulation, pressure from children’s charities, age verification providers and vocal parliamentarians persuaded the government to revamp the defunct regime through the Online Safety Act.
Ah, good ol’ “think of the children,” once again doing the heavy lifting for the morality police and state surveillance.
pressure from […] age verification providers
I think this is the tell that it’s much stupider than any of that. It’s just another corrupt Tory handout to their mates.
I’m in the US so I’ve always needed a passport to watch porn (or anything else) in Britain.
Porn perusers will soon have to prove their age by uploading an identity document like a passport, registering a credit card, […]
Ah, mandatory account creation with linked credit card being the most widely available and likely easiest option?
No wonder the porn sites aren’t fighting this too hard!
(…or are they?)
My guess is that some companies will greatly benefit from this regulation because they can somewhat monopolize the market. I also wouldn’t be surprised if those were the ones who lobbied for this.
Ofcom wants porn consumers to “think of the children”.
Oi yer got ye wankn loicense
Not this shit again
In case anybody needs a reminder, the UK Government’s response to the Snowden Revelations that showed even more widespread surveillance of civil society in the UK than in the US was, unlike in the latter country, to pass laws that retroactivelly made the whole thing legal.
So the latest the UK can call an election and get Labor in charge is January 2025, the same month this goes into effect. Wonder if they will rush a repeal or get blamed for it starting?
Easy. Everything bad that happens before January 2025 is Gordon Brown’s fault, and everything after it’s Kier Starmer’s. You know it’s true because it says so in the Daily Mail.
Whilst I appreciate the satire of the Tories’ one and only politican strategy, as the Snowden Revelations showed back then, New Labour wasn’t any better in their “keeping a watchful eye on the plebes” ways.
Looking down on the rest as riff-raff that needs to be kept in place is a feature of both Tories and New Labour.
The Snooper’s Charter (which made all the things Snowden revealed actually legal) and the thing where it became illegal to film facesitting in the UK both happened under the Cameron administration after being pushed for when Theresa May was home secretary. New Labour didn’t pass anything comparable.
It might well be the case that GCHQ started their mass surveillance of UK citizens under orders from Blair, but given that five independent inquiries have found that the security services lied to the cabinet about WMDs in Iraq, it’s pretty plausible that they did it of their own volition despite it being illegal.
I think the theory that New Labour knew perfectly well what was going on and are no different from the Tories in this makes a lot more sense, especially since the veritable explosion in the use of surveillance cameras dates back to their time as do cases of abusive police surveillance such as the Met infiltration of Ecologist groups (know because at least one of the women in one such group ended up pregnant from one such undercover cop).
Or are you saying that the New Labour leadership were such complete total incompetent numpties that they could not see any of this for their whole decade in power?!
