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naomi24 | 11:38 Thu 16th Jan 2025 | News
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//All websites on which pornographic material can be found, including social media platforms, must introduce "robust" age-checking techniques such as demanding photo ID or running credit card checks for UK users by July.//

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwye3qw7gv7o

 

The intention is for the best but will the reality prove rather more tricky?

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I can't see how they are going to enforce that with foriegn bases sites.

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Or even with UK-based sites.  

There is no way to robustly verify age without causing the viewer risk.  No intelligent individual is going to freely give their financial, or passport, or whatever private details, to some website they visit unless they are making a purchase. The industry will just get moved from UK sites to foreign sites.

 

It's just more idiocy from government, as per usual.  An attempt at censorship disguised as 'thinking of the children' (presumably because many parents don't).

Having now read the article I see the point has already been made. However one wonders about 'facial age estimation'. Will a photo of some random adult fool the system ?

If there were any morals and values of the past it looks like they've long gone. While there has always been a measure of porn about for years it was never exposed to young children like it is now, the younger the child seeing it the more damage it does to their head.

Whats the answer? I've no idea now its been allowed to go this far.

I was using a facebook Angling site not to long back, but stopped using it because of the filth thats being posted, they can't seem to stop it happening, or dont want to, in fact FB seems to be bogged down with it of late. If it shocks me than god knows what its doing to young minds.

 

Impossible to Police.  One VPN and your out of the UK.

Labour dont have a clue, neither did the TINO's.

//No intelligent individual is going to freely give their financial, or passport, or whatever private details//

Absolutley not especially to a porn site, they would become a target for hacking and then blackmail.  Anyone remember Ilicit Encounters? 

//it was never exposed to young children like it is now,//

Well no, there was no internet.  But kids were exposed or perhaps you have forgotten the Porn often found in hedges etc?  It was widely available when I was a schoolboy, wore myself out with it 😁

 

If its impossible to police, then labour or anyone else is not to blame, other than the site owners. OK

No, its not OK.

Labour (and the others as I pointed out) think they can do it.  That ios what ois wrong.

OK.

No one is going to give their personal details and bank info to a porn site, well not unless they are completely radio rental. It's good thing to want to do but almost impossible to implement. Most kids are tech savvy and they'll bypass it in seconds anyway. VPN/TOR etc.

Widely available it was not. And for sure not the low level filth thats available now. Bog standard mags at the news agent and some adults getting there hands on a video, but nevertheless only straight sex.

"If its impossible to police, then labour or anyone else is not to blame, other than the site owners. OK"

Nobody is suggesting that it is Labour's fault that porn exists or that it is impossible to police.

The criticism arises (as it does with many of the measures the current government proposes) because the intended measures have not a hope in hell of producing the desired outtcome. It is true of so many things they propose and shows there seems to be nobody capable of properly thinking through the consequences of their proposals. 

//but nevertheless only straight sex//

You have led a very shelered life then.  Probably answers how your thought patterns work on a number of fronts.

 

 Labour are attempting to TRY and do something. Obviously not much else in todays news you can whinge about regarding the labour government. Bless

I rest my case.

terrible idea. lots of porn is shared on sites that aren't "porn sites" anyway-lots of porn actors use X or bluesky or facebook to distribute their content. 

Another labour bashing thread. Bless, bye bye off for another days walkies. Have fun.

"No one is going to give their personal details and bank info to a porn site, well not unless they are completely radio rental"

people can make good incomes on onlyfans. i think it's more that they aren't going to give it to pornhub or chaturbate

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//All websites on which pornographic material can be found...//

 

Does that mean dedicated sites or any site where the public may contribute ... AB for example?

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