Internet Porn Site Regulation

This is clearly the widely anticipated nonsense. I am in the EU at the moment. Can get onto here and Babestation without a problem. Chaturbate seems to need a face scan each time - no problem for someone in their 70s. Pornhub appears to have thrown its toys out of the pram.

Meanwhile the typical 16 year old lad will have the IT skills to find a way in!

The petition on the official government website to repeal/cancel The Online Safety Act has apparently already reached 250,000 signatures!

The fact is, adult verification won't work, ever, not in any real sense at least. The youngest kids shouldn't be using the internet, the older ones should live in households where parents should not only be watching what they view, but should have already existing filters in place (ISP adult filters should be opt out and on as default, and parents not protecting their little Timmy's should be held accountable). The older kids (teens), well they are savvy enough now to know what they need to do to view porn, that will never not be a thing, thinking this safety act will stop that is delusional. Let's remember that this really isn't about protecting kids, they still haven't got rid of easily accessible illegal content, this is about control. Lazy parents and the protect the kids brigade have made us less safe online. Due to them, governments are doing their best to ruin the internet.
It's not scaremongering to say that this is just the start, if people don't fight now, they'll force VPN's to store and share data, they'll have so much stuff stored about us that data breaches will ruin peoples lives more than they already do, whether it be identity theft, or fraud, or even blackmail, those things will increase and be harder to combat.

The fact that sites have to put AV in place is not their fault, but I see it hitting places it shouldn't and I think it risks going way too far. It's a mistake.

Ofcom's own figures say they know MILLIONS of UK citizens watch porn on a regular basis. A big portion of the country iow. Nevertheless, the authorities are not bothered about inconviencing these people or risking their doxing/blackmail. They make prerence to weightimer concerns.

What actually trumps all for tptb here - though they would never admit it? Their sense of re-exerting a power of control that was slipping through their fingers with the internet.

The establishment of a gateway to control content on social media is the biggest deal. Information is power as the saying goes. Now, ANYTHING the authorities wish to proscribe as beyond the pail can be blocked post haste. The power is thus back in the same old hands once again. They don't let go easily, as you might've gathered.

Will it also encompass forums like this one?

Yes, if a site has adult content or links to adult content, they are expected to do something. These things take time though.

(Yesterday 16:11 )skully Wrote:  The fact is, adult verification won't work, ever, not in any real sense at least. The youngest kids shouldn't be using the internet, the older ones should live in households where parents should not only be watching what they view, but should have already existing filters in place (ISP adult filters should be opt out and on as default, and parents not protecting their little Timmy's should be held accountable). The older kids (teens), well they are savvy enough now to know what they need to do to view porn, that will never not be a thing, thinking this safety act will stop that is delusional. Let's remember that this really isn't about protecting kids, they still haven't got rid of easily accessible illegal content, this is about control. Lazy parents and the protect the kids brigade have made us less safe online. Due to them, governments are doing their best to ruin the internet.
It's not scaremongering to say that this is just the start, if people don't fight now, they'll force VPN's to store and share data, they'll have so much stuff stored about us that data breaches will ruin peoples lives more than they already do, whether it be identity theft, or fraud, or even blackmail, those things will increase and be harder to combat.

The fact that sites have to put AV in place is not their fault, but I see it hitting places it shouldn't and I think it risks going way too far. It's a mistake.

Very well said. AV won't work as under 18's who this is mainly supposed to protect, are very tech savvy & will find ways round it in seconds along with people who don't want to do the av checks. Really makes my blood boil that AV has been pushed by Conservative & Labour government's as a silver bullet to protect under 18's & other vulnerable people, when it so obviously wont

it's already hitting places it shouldn't as Wikipedia are taking the government to court over the online safety act as Wikipedia could effectively be banned in the uk.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62j2gr8866o