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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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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.
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Honestly I never understood this. I grew up with the internet so I've always had access to porn from a young age (If anything it was even easier back than). And pretty much everyone that's 35 years or younger did as well and I'd say generally we all turned out fine. At least not any worse off than any other generation. And honestly the only negative side effect it had on me was having unrealistic expectations the first time I actually had sex.
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Okay chief. How bout you verify the ID'S of UK politicians who visit Asia for kids?
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Yay, more invasion of privacy and censorship
My problem with all this nonsense is that it doesn't actually solve the problem, while causing many more. You'd need to fundamentally rethink the basic design of the technology if you were to actually prevent children from accessing sexual material with it. That's something they don't want to do, however, presumably because they're addicted to the power it offers them to spy on everyone, and exploit the population for profit.
We're in this mess right now because the one absolute truth preempting every other decision made by those who wield power is that the solution must first increase their power. Literally everything else is an afterthought.
Well you see... Despite what people say, the reasons behind these rules has very little to do with children. So they don't actually care if it solves the "problem".
My problem with all this nonsense is that it doesn’t actually solve the problem, while causing many more. You’d need to fundamentally rethink the basic design of the technology if you were to actually prevent children from accessing sexual material with it.
Absolutely - this always happens with these "save the children" laws.
That’s something they don’t want to do, however, presumably because they’re addicted to the power it offers them to spy on everyone, and exploit the population for profit.
Jesus Christ... You ever hear the phrase "never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by ignorance?" Politicians do this sort of "make the people feel like we're doing something" shit all the time. They rarely consider the ramifications beside appeasing parents.
You ever hear the phrase “never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by ignorance?”
Generalities like that can be useful when applied appropriately, but counter-productive when applied blindly. That positions of power are held primarily by those who are motivated primarily by power ought to be the most straight forward assertion possible.
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How would you solve it then? I'm not saying Ofcom are right, but should it be left wholly on parents to police the whole internet?
It could be. Putting adult filters on your routers and devices isn't difficult.
Whereas if this is implemented, I think it pushes the public towards the dark net...and if your intent is protecting minors, that's absolutely not the result you want.
At least on pornhub these days I have a reasonable assurance I'm not stumbling into something I shouldn't. In the dark corners of the internet, that illusion of protection is gone.
Parental Controls have never been easier to enact. All my.kids have tablets with 4 layers of adguards, autolocks, timers, and app restrictions. It took maybe an hour to set all of them up. Are your kids worth an hour of your time? I think so. Especially if it means we dont restrict freedoms for shitty solutions.
They don’t have to police the whole internet, just their kids. Frankly children that age shouldn’t be on social media especially unsupervised.
Parents should be using device level controls to monitor their kids internet habits. All of this should be built into the device and browser, and parents need to take basic accountability.
If the alternative is not solving the problem while making other stuff worse, yeah.
Yes. Parent controls have been available for this stuff for ages. It's not a problem for the state to solve.
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I agree, the country is delving deeper into authoritarianism by each second. The children and minors is just another exploitable class to them.
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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.
Does this mean Brits need to through their bank to get a wank?