All porn sites must 'robustly' verify UK user ages by July
All porn sites must 'robustly' verify UK user ages by July
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All porn sites must 'robustly' verify UK user ages by July
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.
I agree, the country is delving deeper into authoritarianism by each second. The children and minors is just another exploitable class to them.
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".
Absolutely - this always happens with these "save the children" laws.
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.
The UK has a History of intrusive civil society surveillance which the Snowden revelations showed was even worse than in the US, and whilst the US actually walked back on some of it back then, the UK Government just retroactivelly made the whole thing legal.
Also, lets not forget how the UK has the highest density of CCTV cameras per inhabitant in the World (or maybe it's just London: it's been a while since I read about it).
Their track record on the subject heavilly indicates that this specific measure with the characteristics it has, is extremelly likely to have been purposefully crafted to extend civil society surveillance and information access control.
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?
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.
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.
Yes. Parent controls have been available for this stuff for ages. It's not a problem for the state to solve.
Nope. Just their kids.
Like always.
Oh it does.
Kids have access to phones and data. No matter how good my DNS is, means fuck all if my son can use his data (if he was old enough to have phone) and browse, under UK, he can't easily access the most common porn sites without verifying.
As open and pro porn internet social bubble might be. I'm not okay with my son gaining access to it easily and too early.
At times, I wish there were more adults and parents online to counter the sea of basically male teenagers pushing what they think isright. And I know I'll get a "I'm a parent of 3, porn is healthy for them!" Type of response... And that's irrelevant. We all are raising a human being and we all have different morals and ideas. There's zero chance I'll consciously allow a loophole before he turns 12.
Your personal morals should not be the basis of laws that invade the privacy of every last person in the country, including your sons. Don't you think that educating your son on sex, porn and reasonable usage (depending on age) would be an approach that would foster an atmosphere of trust and responsibility in the relationship between you and your child, making a law unnecessary? The way you seem to handle it just a) makes most kids curios and b) will make kids just hide their behaviour (and they will be seeing stuff, since most kids gain access in one way or another, and they share proudly for clout). Don't forget that the best liars come from very strict homes.