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this post was submitted on 16 Jan 2025
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Thinking about this recently. Kids tend to find ways to abuse the technology for "naughty" purposes whatever the era. I remember the first kid I knew with residential internet back in the early 90s, the very first thing he wanted to show off about it was that you could get on some ancient bulletin board system and if you waited like 7 minutes you could eventually see a whole picture of a topless woman.
Trying to age gate all internet smut sounds like a losing battle. I think an unintended consequence might be young people hassling their peers for nudes at a higher rate. Either that or they will find alternative modes of distribution that adults didn't even think about.
Maybe instead of trying to deanonymize internet usage for literally everybody, there is an actual social solution such as, oh, I dunno, parenting?
you're not wrong, but as the parent of a 7 year old, i find it impossible to keep them from things i didn't want them to absorb, because even one child at school can undo all the safeguards I've implemented at home. putting it all down to "parenting" is not the solution either.
I actually agree with you, in that I've been where you are and it is extremely difficult. There has been more pushback recently against the idea that very young kids are magically entitled to unfettered device access. The incentives are misaligned because big tech just wants more and more pairs of eyes. They don't really care about the underlying harms. However they have built better parental controls recently. I have to credit Apple (extremely reluctantly) because their controls and reporting seem to be better.
However you are right, there will always be some other kid at school with a completely unlocked device because his parents are idiots and pay zero attention.
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.
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.
Remember when the Snowden revelations came out?
Not only it showed that the UK was even more intrusive in their surveillance of their own citiziens than the US, but after those revelations, whilst the US walked back on some of the surveillance, the Government of the UK simply retroactivelly legalized all of it, the editor at The Guardian who published the Snowden revelations got kicked out and the entire British Press went quiet about it since then.
The chances of this being genuinelly about protecting children rather than about facilitating the identification of British internet users by the GCHQ, are pretty much zero.
Personally I lived in the UK back when the Snowden revelations came out, so switched to being behind an always on VPN and since then never lost that habit. (And yeah, it's of course not a foolproof mechanism, but it sure makes it way harder to be caught in the broad trawling done by the surveillance apparatus, plus it's also pretty useful for "sailing the high seas")
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?
Every site is going to turn into a porn site, isn't it?
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).
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"
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.
This is why we need decentralized, open source porn websites.
So, head on over to LemmyNSFW.com and upload a pic of your junk.
Visit pornhub in any state or country where its banned or censored via the Tor Network, Onion URL at http://pornhubthbh7ap3u.onion/.
I'm shy, I'll just dm you instead.
so....why the sudden pressure to track porn usage to IDs?
ohhh....the homosexuals.
this is good news. it means they don't already have a database of all the lgbtq+ communities.
I wonder if there's any crime committed if you sign up your local conservative politician for gay porn or monthly dildos. maybe even abortion drugs while you're at it.
Looks like I picked the right time to get a girlfriend
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"
I expect this to go just as well as for the US states that implemented similar laws. So basically anyone in the UK is blocked access and will just have to use a VPN for porn. Any kind of recording of IDs is obviously a huge security risk for everyone involved, and it doesn't really make sense for porn sites to open themselves for that.
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