The UK tries, once again, to age-gate pornography

The majority of those are coming across it accidentally

Source: teenagers caught in the act by their parents

I swear dumbarses like this live in a bubble. Who in their right mind would give their identity documents or bank cards to a porn site? If the UK government enacts this silly legislation it just means UK residents will use non-UK sites.

Some people really need a reality check.

There’s also the risk that any age verification implemented will end up being bypassed by anyone with access to a VPN

I'd bet there's already a significant amount of people doing this in places besides the UK.

Government can't get enough of seeing what people are doing, including what they're wanking off too - no privacy for the masses.

Pornographic content that consists only of text is not covered by today’s guidelines.

Ao3 users can't stop winning.

There’s also the risk that any age verification implemented will end up being bypassed by anyone with access to a VPN. When I ask, Whitehead admits that there’s no “silver bullet” when it comes to online safety. However, she says the measures are still worthwhile if they can help stop children from accidentally encountering adult content.

It sounds like they have absolutely no idea how to implement this law in anything approaching an effective manner. I suspected lend up getting scrap like everything else.

Let's just waste some more money to appease some bigots who have illegal seed behind close doors, right? Coz normally that's exactly what happens..

This is the best summary I could come up with:

UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has laid out how porn sites could verify users’ ages under the newly passed Online Safety Act.

The regulator is consulting on these guidelines starting today and hopes to finalize its official guidance in roughly a year’s time.

The measures have the potential to be contentious and come a little over four years after the UK government scrapped its last attempt to mandate age verification for pornography.

“The majority of those are coming across it accidentally and stumbling across it on the web.” Ofcom’s press release cites research that suggests nearly eight in 10 children have seen “violent pornography depicting coercive, degrading or pain-inducing sex acts” before turning 18.

Once the duties come into force, pornography sites will be able to choose from Ofcom’s approaches or implement their own age verification measures so long as they’re deemed to hit the “highly effective” bar demanded by the Online Safety Act.

“Age verification technologies for pornography risk sensitive personal data being breached, collected, shared, or sold.

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Why don't they just announce that they've done it?

It's only bigoted "religious" nosey busy body hand ringing type idiots that care, and presumably they won't ever try and access pornography themselves anyway so how are they going to find out? Right?

Unless of course they do, but that would then require them to admit that they attempted to access it.

Problem solved.

Will be as successful as last time

I'm torn on what to think about the uks stance on technology. Like one one hand they've been forcing apple to be normal. But on the other hand they love trying to restrict porn in the most ridiculous ways.

The current UK government are basically Posh Fascists (Notice the anti-demonstration legislation, sending people asking the UK for asylum to Rwanda and sending surveillance planes to help Israel with what the UN has deemed a Genocide in Gaza) so this is hardly surprising.

The Conservative wing of the Tory party has been well and trully buried by the UKIPers that invaded the party back in the Brexit Campaign days.

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We should abolish online porn entirely.

A reduction in incels will reduce the number of white supremacists.