Online Safety Act

[NotAllThere]

cojak Looks like VPN providers will need to do age verification.

Paddy Definition of Porn - I know it when I see it. To paraphrase some judge somewhere.

I have suggested elsewhere that the petitiion against this law provides a nice list of all perverts and delinquents.

[WTFH]

Paddy Definition of Porn - I know it when I see it. To paraphrase some judge somewhere.

I have suggested elsewhere that the petitiion against this law provides a nice list of all perverts and delinquents.

Thing is, the guys who are protesting about it because of porn, are skipping the bits about it also applying to websites that children would have access to that promote suicide, self harm and terrorism.

Should we prevent children from being exposed to sites trying to indoctrinate them into terrorism? Lord Toby Young (whose party brought the bill in the first place), Nigel Farage, and many others of their ilk think we should not prevent it. They will backtrack and say something different should be done, safe in the knowledge that they will never be asked to draft up the legislation to deliver the "something different", but can come up with some simple slogan to deflect from doing anything.

[Snooky]

This will have a negative impact on mens' prostate health. A **** a day keeps the doctor away.

Especially if it's in the waiting room

[tazdevil]

The law isn't working, I did a quick check and there's loads of still images of sexy origin in plain sight along with foreign based xxx sites that probably don't know this legislation exists and don't care anyway. Are they going to put the whole internet behind age verification?

[sadkingbilly]

The law isn't working, I did a quick check

aye, - right!
a quick check.
sure.

[willendure]

He did a quickie!

[willendure]

The law isn't working, I did a quick check and there's loads of still images of sexy origin in plain sight along with foreign based xxx sites that probably don't know this legislation exists and don't care anyway. Are they going to put the whole internet behind age verification?

I guess these sites eventually end up on an IP blacklist? Although some of them are IP blacklisted due to copyright takedowns and quite used to hopping over to a new address.

I think you are right though - kids probably know better than parents how to set up a VPN anyway. But maybe it will do something to help with under aged images, suicide, self harm etc. TikTok isn't it that is notorious for serving up self harm images, even when the user does not specifically look for them? At least if there is a law, there is a recourse for the authorities do force them to stop doing that, because they have been asking nicely for a long time and not getting anywhere.

[Paddy]

I guess these sites eventually end up on an IP blacklist? Although some of them are IP blacklisted due to copyright takedowns and quite used to hopping over to a new address.

I think you are right though - kids probably know better than parents how to set up a VPN anyway. But maybe it will do something to help with under aged images, suicide, self harm etc. TikTok isn't it that is notorious for serving up self harm images, even when the user does not specifically look for them? At least if there is a law, there is a recourse for the authorities do force them to stop doing that, because they have been asking nicely for a long time and not getting anywhere.

There are now loads of sites generating fake IDs, driving licence pictures etc all for free; the online safety act is broken.

[ladymuck]

It is a ridiculous law when even Wikipedia could be on the hook for demanding age verification. They had a hearing on 22/23 July but I can't find what the outcome was.

[NotAllThere]

It is a ridiculous law when even Wikipedia could be on the hook for demanding age verification. They had a hearing on 22/23 July but I can't find what the outcome was.

They do have porn that's out of copyright. So I'm told of course...