Reply to: Online Safety Act

[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?

[ladymuck]

Poor chap

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

[xoggoth]

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

[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...

[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.

[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.

[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.

[willendure]

He did a quickie!

[sadkingbilly]

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

aye, - right!
a quick check.
sure.

[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?

[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

[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.

[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.

[xoggoth]

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

[fulcon]

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 not just porn.

Rockstar are introducing age checks for GTA Online, starting with the UK.

https://www.radiotimes.com/technolog...ct-newsupdate/

Spotify is also introducing age checks:

https://www.techradar.com/audio/spot...turn-to-piracy

Slippery slopes and all that.