Disaster UK Blocking All Porn/NSFW URL'S In April 2018. - For Profit Age Verification Companies Rejoice.

http://www.wired.co.uk/article/porn-block-ban-in-the-uk-age-verifcation-law

"The changes for online pornography are being introduced under the Digital Economy Act. For the first time, he added, the government would have the power to block websites, en-masse, without court orders. “This is a first in a democracy,” he continued. “Although this appears to be just about protecting children from porn, it isn't. It will block any site that doesn't comply with strict UK content rules.”

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MindGeek is one of the companies developing a "solution" for age verification on pornography websites. On its website it delivers a "world-class portfolio of entertainment experiences and IT solutions". It does not mention it owns some of the world's biggest porn sites, including Pornhub.

For age verification, MindGeek has developed AgeID. The company says it expects to sign-up 25 million people in the UK its system. According to Sky News, people will be able to login to AgeID with an email address and password, then use a third party system to check their age. AgeID will log which pornography websites are visited and store them.

There are concerns such a system could create giant databases of people accessing pornography. Pornhub, which is the world's most-visited pornographic website, had 64 million visitors per day in 2017, and the UK is its second biggest traffic driver. Such a database would be an obvious target for hackers, hoping to hold pornography sites to ransom.

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After a large amount of indecision, at the start of February 2018 it was confirmed the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) would become the regulator for age verification. The body is currently responsible for setting the age restrictions (PG, 12A, 18, etcetera) on films broadcast in the UK. It can make recommendations to cut content, or deny a certificate and reject the media’s right to circulate in the UK.

Tl;dr - The UK passed a resolution back in 2017 that they would block anything considered pornographic via world wide, en-masse content filtering unless users first verify their age. This block is set to go in effect April 1st 2018. A little over a month from now.

They've still no idea how to manage it and only just a week ago the government decided the same organization that classifies films and tv shows for age ratings should be the governing body of whats "pornography"

Sites like Reddit, Twitter and other popular social media platforms may also be blocked as they contain pornography.

Credit Card verification seems to be the angle everyone is leaning towards and Age Verification services are scrambling to get a piece of the pie.

Of course... it's all in the name of protecting children.

 
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Slimy Time dijo:
Welcome to the product of several generations of the nanny state and relying on the government to sort anything out.
Also, they have the usual government cover for passing this law, it's to "protect the children". What, you don't want to protect children? Are you some kind of sick pervert? They will use either that or "to get at the terrorists/racists".

Genuinely doesn't seem to matter which side of the mainstream spectrum people are on, be it left or right, they fucking love government getting all up in their ass. So many people I have talked to cannot comprehend the idea of the government being told to "leave us the fuck alone".

Edit: Here is an old article which may explain/give reason why Brits are so complacent regarding this: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/09/opinion/why-do-brits-accept-surveillance.html


TBH, the idea of politicians "serving the will of the people" only recently started popping up as important in the face of Brexit and the disastrous attempt to implement that.
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These are a people that have been living under centralized autocracy since even before the Roman times, you expect that to change for them in anyway some time soon? They welcome the boot on their necks because they've been living with it there for centuries on end and it's going to stay there for several centuries more. The Enlightenment Era for the UK and there rest of Europe in general was a flash in the pan fluke that will never be recreated again
 
I can't wait until the UK is hit by a wave of porn bootleggers. Enjoy 5-10 years just for spreading porn online.
 
Interestingly enough, the site which explains the BBFC (for it is they who will have the job of managing the porn loicense) and how the age verification system works simply says that details will be put up there once they are developed. So it seems that they haven't even worked out how they're going to even begin to do it.

I wonder how they would stop someone buying a loicense using, say, a comedic sobriquet like "Mike Oxbig" and then simply putting the number up for general consumption so anyone can log on with it.

Incidentally, there used to be a porn actress / Page 3 lass / whatever in the late 80s and early 90s called Teresa May. (Link obviously is NSFW.)
 
Cosmos dijo:
I can’t imagine living in such a nanny state where I would have to buy a “government approved porn pass” just to look at porn. Why are British people so complacent about shit like this? Why do they just sit there and take it when their government keeps imposing more restrictions on them?
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Probably 'cause 90% of the time they're too incompetent to actually restrict anything and everything goes on as normal.
 
Debating conservatives who support this is fucking exhausting...I had one mong tell me that "If parent's can't discipline their children someone has to do it for them". The state is the be all end all for them, It HAS to do something, as opposed to leaving people alone. Literally no difference between some of them and the socialists regarding privacy and restrictions, it's just a matter of what they decide to ban.

Both major parties deserve to be nuked from orbit.
 
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Everything went wrong with England when the Normans invaded them. It took a strong people, killed their nobles, then deprived them of any freedoms until they were turned into a lower caste who were infantilized into needing their Norman overlords to do provide everything for them.
 
Lol I’d rather live in a place where I have to pay for my own healthcare and get into shootouts every day just to go to work than some gay island surveillance state where the government logs your internet porn habits, the one-time haul you in for mean tweets, and kebab rape gangs/prominent BBC personalities raping kids for decades gets covered up.

Fuck those crumpetniggers I hope they get nuked. :julay:
 
When I was a kid and I read Nineteen Eighty-Four, I took it at face value, that the world really was Oceania, Eastasia and Eurasia, fighting a war on the "Malabar Front" (basically over useless, bombed out desert) etc.

Then not a few years ago I read the theory that no, the rest of the world was more or less as it was, and it was Britain and Britain alone that had retreated into this hermit-state existence, shutting off the outside world, lying to its citizens about how things were elsewhere. It's kind of a very thin possibility, but I suppose since we can only see the world through Winston's eyes, it is a possibility.

So shit like this happens in real life, and I start to think the bastards just might actually pull it off, for real.
 
Alright folks, this is just too good to pass up.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/8569154/porn-uk-ban-block-when-unlock/

NEW laws are about to come into effect banning UK citizens accessing online porn without proving their age.

But when does the block kick in, why the government changing the rules, and can you switch it off?

What is the UK porn ban?

Porn sites will soon be required to get proof of ID from UK residents before showing any X-rated clips - in order to protect children. That includes free sites like PornHub and YouPorn - which attracts nearly two billion visits a month between them worldwide. They'll join a number of other sites in using the AgeID system, which requires users to verify their age via an official form of ID. From July this year, when the new system is being launched, randy internet users will be shown a non-pornographic "landing page", according to AgeID spokesman James Clark. "When a user first visits a site protected by AgeID, a landing page will appear with a prompt for the user to verify their age before they can access the site,"' he told the Metro. "Each website will create their own non-pornographic landing page for this purpose." When someone first clicks on a site, they'll be asked to register with AgeID and verify their age using a Mobile SMS, credit card, passport or driving license. Users will then be able to use their AgeID username or password to access all porn sites that use AgeID - though some may use different age verification systems. Clark said: "It's a one-time verification with a simple single sign-on for future access. If a user verifies on one AgeID protected site, they will not need to perform this verification again on any other site carrying AgeID." Sites face fines up to 250,000 Pounds or blanket bans from internet service providers if they do not comply with the rules. Regulators will also be able to block porn websites if they fail to show that they are denying access to under-18s.

When does the ban start?

The porn ban isn't far off - it starts from July 15, 2019, the government has said. That means that from this date, those trying to access a porn site from a British IP address will be asked to provide "proof" that they are aged 18. For example, using driving licenses, or age verification cards bought from retailers. The automatic block is being introduced under the Digital Economy Act 2017.

Can you unlock the new block?

As well as registering with AgeID, Brits will also be able to acces porn sites using a voucher you can buy from high street shops. Thousands of shops will offer the special ID cards, which users can link to an app known as Portes. Through Portes, they can then login to sites without having to hand over their email address.
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TL;DR: The Brits are requiring their residents to show their IDs in order to watch porn.
 
If it works, well you will have alot more youth violence and rape, if it doesnt works, well it doesnt works.
 
Kids are already stealing their parent's credit cards to buy shit in games, do the brits think they won't use their ID to get around this? Or is the next step facial recognition via webcam?
 
Sargon's wife's son dijo:
Supposed to be 18 to look at point porn so what's the problem here.
I mean I don't think children should be looking at some of the weird ass pornography that's on the internet but that's just my humble opinion.
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Loss of anonymity.

Lots of 18+ people wouldn't go to these sites if it meant that had to give the site their actual official ID information.
 
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