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Oi yer got ye wankn loicense
I hope this encourages children to learn an important life skill that will help them in numerous ways: Piracy.
It is life changing really. I don’t recall ever paying for digital content. I still go to the theatres for an exceptional movie but that’s it. It has made me learn more about computers, be a bit savvy in tech. I can’t count how many times that has helped me get through my job. It really is an important life skill
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.
You want children to watch porn?
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 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.
Oh the humanity. They might get deeply inaccurate ideas about the perks of pizza delivery.
One should be vastly more worried about people who when they think of children think of porn, or vice-versa.
Normal people might think of children and think of playground safety or maybe how SUVs should be banned because they’re so much more dangerous for children on streets than normal cars.
People whose top concern when it comes to “children” is “porn” are emotionally invested in a certain kind of association that normal people don’t usually have in their minds in such strong terms.
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.
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.
Headlines next year: “VPN subscriptions in the UK up 42069% for some reason”
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.
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.
Followed by headline: “Torries Criminalize VPN Use, Require Use of Torrie-Owned VPN”
The fuck is a Torrie?
An authoritarian wanker
I’m an advocate of VPN but this is not the situation to recommend them but to chastise regulators and lawmakers for even allowing this. This is eroding our freedom of speech. I can see politicians expanding this and censoring terrorist speech and speech of certain political ideologies. It is the erosion our civil liberties we need to worry about.
I agree that it’s a slippery slope, but what does this have to do with freedom of speech?
Smut is speech. Frankly, smut is the highest form of speech. You should not need to show your papers to speak or to listen
Is that a legal definition or your personal interpretation?
If it’s a legal definition then that’s the problem.
If you want to start talking to lawmakers about wanting to watch porn without having to show ID, you would be dismissed if you’re going to cite free speech being the right it is infringing upon. Privacy would be a better starting point, for example.
That’s your personal interpretation. I think you’re full of shite and so does Larry Flint.
Big shame people are unaware of a century’s worth of obscenity law… how in western democracy the high courts literally found that laws like these violated free speech protections over “local prurient interests” and hence struck down those laws.
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.
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.
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”
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.
Yes, they see them as property to be used.
But even in that stupid, dehumanizing framework it still ought to be one of the issues of “parents rights” they love so much. Your child’s privacy being violated is a violation of your property rights. YOU didn’t consent to that child’s privacy being compromised, and they are a thing that belongs to you and can only exist according to your beliefs and rules, so that was an attack on you.
So the real truth is that to conservatives, there is no coherent ethical framework they can turn to to reliably make judgements. It is the politics of being a cruel and obstinate asshole.
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
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.
