UK govt wants all porn sites to prove you're adults

[Multifarity]

I'm embarrassed to be British, and not for the first time.
Cameron, if you think you're the new Jesus or whatever, could you maybe try to express that by curing leapers or turning water into wine.
(An easy way to do that would be to get a glass of really pale chardonnay, tell everyone it's water, wave your hand over it and then hand it over. They'll drink it and be all like: 'Yeah! that is wine now, you're a genius'... I'm pretty sure that's how Jesus did it.)

Seriously, this is the worst country in the world for internet freedoms... I mean the worst democracy in the world... Except Iceland... And maybe France...
It's pretty bad... And soon we'll all have forgotten that the government letting you go on sites they haven't pre-approved is 'normal.'

Did they have Chardonnay in Israel back then?

Riesling would also work.

[Divair2]

What would you propose as an alternative Divar? I'm dubious about how effective this move would be and to be honest most of the parents need to put in the right protection if they want to stop their teens viewing porn

Offer to educate parents in how to implement parental controls on family computers. But that's probably too much for the gov't. They can't even update operating systems properly, so they instead spend hundreds of millions of pounds to pay Microsoft to keep support going beyond its expiration.

[Destiny Island]

The heck do kids need a laptop at an age that it isn't safe to view porn?

Now 2014 is calling you on its Iphone.

Okay that one was my fault. Brainfarted.

[Marcurix]

It will of course still be enforced without opposition because they are simply increasing the requirements for a pre-existing rule.

No, it wont be enforced because it can't be enforced because website based anywhere but UK is going to say "yea, no" while people who want to access them will use one of billion proxies.

I never said people wouldn't get around it.

[Indira]

What would you propose as an alternative Divar? I'm dubious about how effective this move would be and to be honest most of the parents need to put in the right protection if they want to stop their teens viewing porn

Offer to educate parents in how to implement parental controls on family computers. But that's probably too much for the gov't. They can't even update operating systems properly, so they instead spend hundreds of millions of pounds to pay Microsoft to keep support going beyond its expiration.

Now THIS is what I'm talking about. Actually INTELLIGENT responses. Unlike this shit which will just be a pain in the neck and wildly ineffective.

[Degenerate Heart of HetRio]

I have no problems with this whatsoever. Its a minor inconvenience.

I wouldn't be able to do anything fun in the internet if this fad catches on.

Some people actually are taken care of and hate going out, doing so only in cases of extreme necessity. This is not rare at all, and we're more common among the internet population for obvious reasons.

[Ozzy]

No, it wont be enforced because it can't be enforced because website based anywhere but UK is going to say "yea, no" while people who want to access them will use one of billion proxies.

I never said people wouldn't get around it.

Doesn't that sort of remove the point of having age authentication?

[Divair2]

I never said people wouldn't get around it.

Doesn't that sort of remove the point of having age authentication?

Yes.

[Marcurix]

I never said people wouldn't get around it.

Doesn't that sort of remove the point of having age authentication?

If it stops someone, it has done its job.

That's how it's seen anyway.

[The UK in Exile]

Offer to educate parents in how to implement parental controls on family computers. But that's probably too much for the gov't. They can't even update operating systems properly, so they instead spend hundreds of millions of pounds to pay Microsoft to keep support going beyond its expiration.

Now THIS is what I'm talking about. Actually INTELLIGENT responses. Unlike this shit which will just be a pain in the neck and wildly ineffective.

The last thread of this nature was about making parental controls on computers easier to implement. I believe the responses were entirely the same. half thought it was a perfectly reasonable measure and the other half thought it was a harbinger of the fourth reich.

[Degenerate Heart of HetRio]

I honestly think this is sensible.

Then again, I'm an adult.

And not a hikikomori that is almost legally nonexistent.

[Multifarity]

Doesn't that sort of remove the point of having age authentication?

If it stops someone, it has done its job.

That's how it's seen anyway.

And so, a forty year old woman gets a bit curious about porn, but finds that she needs to switch her ISP filters off and then provide information about herself to the site just to watch it, it's that dangerous! And as a result realizes that her friends at church were right to say it was disgusting and sinful and wrong, and decides not to.

Success!

[Ice Cold Pepsi]

Parental Control is the responsibility of the parents, not the government.

[Marcurix]

If it stops someone, it has done its job.

That's how it's seen anyway.

And so, a forty year old woman gets a bit curious about porn, but finds that she needs to switch her ISP filters off and then provide information about herself to the site just to watch it, it's that dangerous! And as a result realizes that her friends at church were right to say it was disgusting and sinful and wrong, and decides not to.

Success!

Sure, something like that though with less religious tones.

Make it a hassle and a lot of people won't do it. Add the potential for embarrassment and it makes it that much more convincing.

[Ostroeuropa]

And so, a forty year old woman gets a bit curious about porn, but finds that she needs to switch her ISP filters off and then provide information about herself to the site just to watch it, it's that dangerous! And as a result realizes that her friends at church were right to say it was disgusting and sinful and wrong, and decides not to.

Success!

Sure, something like that though with less religious tones.

Make it a hassle and a lot of people won't do it. Add the potential for embarrassment and it makes it that much more convincing.

Sexual repression is always good for society.

[Voltrovia]

"What's that?"
"It's a policy."
"What's it doing?"
"Sliding down a slippery slope"

[Davinhia]

sounds hot

[Nasall]

you know, i'm surprised this hasn't happened sooner, you think after the thousands of documentaries explaining why porn is bad, someone in the government would go "why don't we just make users prove there 18 and older". another question is did they explain what kind of style there going to make people prove their 18, because if its like "enter your month, date, and year you were born" then theirs nothing for the masses to cry about

[Degenerate Heart of HetRio]

sounds hot

Now it's not only promiscuity that is amazingly risky to your very existence, porn can be too!

All hail the credit card Russian roulette!

[Hladgos]

Fail of a government. Quit infringing on the internet.

[The Grey Wolf]

Yes, in this world filled with wars, murder, rape, and crime in general...

Our biggest problem is children looking at titties.

[The Scientific States]

Dammit David.

It should be a parents responsibility to make sure that their kids aren't watching porn, if they don't want their kids watching porn, not the government's responsibility.

[Destiny Island]

This is rather stupid.

[Nasall]

Yes, in this world filled with wars, murder, rape, and crime in general...

Our biggest problem is children looking at titties.

YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THINK OF THE CHILDREN *cries*

[Scholmeria]

How can you proove to the site that you are an adult?