Online Safety Act

[xoggoth]

I think someone should start a thread in technical on how we can watch porn without revealing our identity.

[ladymuck]

Poor chap

https://metro.co.uk/2025/08/01/brita...face-23807955/

[willendure]

Poor chap

https://metro.co.uk/2025/08/01/brita...face-23807955/

He can probably sue for discrimination and make a packet. Maybe not so poor after all?

[Uncle Albert]

So 4Chan are going to refuse to pay any fines. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq68j5g2nr1o

I can see plenty of others doing the same.

[willendure]

So 4Chan are going to refuse to pay any fines. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq68j5g2nr1o

I can see plenty of others doing the same.

So we probably end up with ISPs forced to block them by IP address. The "great wall" of Britain has begun.

[ladymuck]

Traffic to 4chan won't be affected. It's probably already accessed mostly via VPN anyway.

[DoctorStrangelove]

So 4Chan are going to refuse to pay any fines. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq68j5g2nr1o

I can see plenty of others doing the same.

Of course. Only the Septics are allowed extraterritoriality.

[m0n1k3r]

Excuse my ignorance, but what is the government’s definition of pornography? From what I can gather it includes plain nudity. If that is the case, the government should be banning all harmful content such a war games and alike and not nudity which is natural.

It's in section 236 in the legislation:

“pornographic content” means content of such a nature that it is reasonable to assume that it was produced solely or principally for the purpose of sexual arousal

It could in theory mean any content.

[Protagoras]

Ah, as with much recent legislation, drafted so poorly that it can cover a lot of ground and requires courts to establish boundaries.

Encouraging VPN use surely makes the role of policing national security more difficult since there's more traffic that's harder to monitor.

[ladymuck]

It's in section 236 in the legislation:

“pornographic content” means content of such a nature that it is reasonable to assume that it was produced solely or principally for the purpose of sexual arousal

It could in theory mean any content.

I hope that MP with the tractor fetish uses a VPN.