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

Spoiler: Text Snippets

"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.

 

[Midlife Sperglord]

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.

It could be a government sanctioned method to honeypot, doxx and cull the British babyfurs.

 

[NerdShamer]

It could be a government sanctioned method to honeypot, doxx and cull the British babyfurs.

Or at the very least, crack down on transphobia since troons are protected over there.

 

[Irrelevant]

I don't really expect many sites beyond Pornhub to actually implement it. They claim any site that doesn't obey will be blocked but we've already seen that most ISPs don't/can't inspect all traffic and will only do it at the DNS level if that's enough to trick politicians.

I'm more worried about kids man in the middleing themselves with cheap VPNs.

 

[Carcinogenesis]

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.

This kind of mentality is the fucking worst. Tell me, would you be comfortable letting EVERYONE know what porn you watch, where you watch it and when you watch it? You can't even argue that it can't be possible for that data to either be leaked or deliberately released. Once you register, you'll be automatically verified on every porn website you use, meaning that you can't escape it. The whole protecting-the-children argument is also bullshit since anyone can use an AgeID verified device to watch porn, a kid can use their parents device to watch said porn since it's already an AgeID verified device. So tell me, sir, what are you going to masturbate to? Big brother certainly knows since he is quite literally watching you.

 

[AnotherPleb]

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.

Do you really want any government knowing what you fap to?

 

[NerdShamer]

This kind of mentality is the fucking worst. Tell me, would you be comfortable letting EVERYONE know what porn you watch, where you watch it and when you watch it? You can't even argue that it can't be possible for that data to either be leaked or deliberately released. Once you register, you'll be automatically verified on every porn website you use, meaning that you can't escape it. The whole protecting-the-children argument is also bullshit since anyone can use an AgeID verified device to watch porn, a kid can use their parents device to watch said porn since it's already an AgeID verified device. So tell me, sir, what are you going to masturbate to? Big brother certainly knows since he is quite literally watching you.

I would say "buy mags & DVDs" since that's what left, but let's face it: People are watching those places

 

[Irrelevant]

Back in 2018 they were saying this: https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.p...-ineffective-internet-porn-ban-set-start.html

The Impact Assessment for all this also estimated that it will cost an average of around £4.5 million to fully setup the regulator and that “large” ISPs could each expect to incur costs of between £100,000 to £500,000 to update their systems and block non-compliant websites (assumes a block of up to 50 sites per year at “DNS level“). Obviously big ISPs can deal with such a cost but smaller providers will struggle (network-level filtering is neither cheap nor easy to develop).

Up to 50 sites a year at only the DNS level. Yeah this will work.

When the "porn filter" from a few years ago is turned on most UK ISPs do block port 53 so it's not as easy for kids as just changing the DNS server but the bill payer can turn it off and switch to any server. The "porn filter" actually blocks tons of shit by default such as fashion and shopping sites which feminists deemed to be promoting "unrealistic standards" so even mums often turn it off which is why we're back to getting another layer.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

It could be a government sanctioned method to honeypot, doxx and cull the British babyfurs.

Joking aside, they don't actually care about what deviant shit you're into nor do they believe it makes you any bit violent, what they care about is having blackmail so they can blackball any emerging subversive or adversarial political figures. If they don't comply, character assassination everywhere. They tried doing it to Edward Snowden by claiming he was a tranny. The people who believe in it earnestly are just useful idiots to an ulterior motive.

 

[PN 801]

Age Verification isn't something that is out of ordinary in countries like South Korea. They've had SIN verification since forever...

But we are talking about UK. I highly doubt these SIN will be kept safe and secure....just another way for hackers to exploit these porn sites...

 

[Carcinogenesis]

I would say "buy mags & DVDs" since that's what left, but let's face it: People are watching those places

The beauty of internet porn is that you don't quite leave the stuff lying around as long as you aren't downloading anything. It would be embarrassing if you invite your family for the Holidays and they accidentally stumble across your porn mags/DVDs.

 

[MediocreMilt]

Or is the next step facial recognition via webcam?

DSP Tries It: Porn Loicense Verification

Spoiler: NSFW

 

[ICametoLurk]

Stop Watching Porn.

 

[Splendid]

It's kind of a very thin possibility

North Koreans live like this.
Not so impossible after all.

 

[Your Weird Fetish]

Not that I think most parents are doing their job, just that even if were, all it takes is a few bad parents to ruin the whole thing. the exposure to pornography is leading to some really terrible social ills like kids molesting each other (because they imitate whatever they watch, its hard wired in to normal humans). That to me seems to be a point where government intervention might be sensible. I hope it works.

You're literally an old lady from 1992.

 

[Unog]

So are they going to ban VPNs and Tor too? This is just a trap for idiots, really, and a good way to tell who around you is an idiot by whether or not they support this stupid shit.

Muslims mass-raping their kids and replacing them demographically - nothing happens.

Porn ban - Probably gonna lead to riots in a week.

Bread and circuses is a real concept that works frighteningly well.

 

[Your Weird Fetish]

Muslims mass-raping their kids and replacing them demographically - nothing happens.

Porn ban - Probably gonna lead to riots in a week.

Brits are weak, they'll shit themselves and do nothing. Even Chris at least could get the cops called on him when he was pissed enough.

 

[Magnus did Nothing Wrong]

I doubt this will even get a big reaction. Anyone with a brain can get round the filter and while I'm sure a lot of normies will be very pissed they won't say anything. That would mean admitting that they watch porn and that's probably the equivalent to admitting you fuck kids in britbong land considering how repressed they are.

 

[absent father]

Does this count for hentai as well? Like drawn shit? How the fuck can you even police art/animation, if it's posted on like twitter/newgrounds

 

[Irrelevant]

Replying here since I assume the other thread was supposed to be closed after most posts were migrated.

You can't MitM an HTTPs connection, and you shouldn't browse porn on non HTTPs sites.

It's not like all these VPN services have you install their own software which is an opportunity to slip in a new root certificate...

And it's not just about porn or even HTTP(S). A VPN will be able to track all traffic from your computer and you're probably leaking data you didn't even think about.

Personally I'd never trust a VPN I didn't setup myself.

 

[cecograph]

Replying here since I assume the other thread was supposed to be closed after most posts were migrated.


It's not like all these VPN services have you install their own software which is an opportunity to slip in a new root certificate...

Yeah, but if you're the sort of person who downloads random software from the internet that has those sorts of permissions, you're probably massively compromised anyway.

I agree with you, though. I use Private Internet Access, but I won't ever download anything from them other than their ovpn configuration file, which I will inspect manually.