New UK Law Requires Credit Card to access Porn

[Aeula]

Users will have to provide credit card details to get on the site in a bid to protect children from porn content.

When do the new UK porn laws come into effect?

Porn website visitors will have to prove they are over 18 to access adult content, the Government has announced.

Users will have to provide credit card details to get on the site in a bid to protect children from porn content.

Websites flouting the new rules, set to be part of the Digital Economy Act, could find a regulator has told their internet service providers to block access to them.

The aim is for all online porn to have age verification by April 2018.

But child safety campaigners warned the age checks don’t go far enough.

An NSPCC spokesman said: “Robust age verification and regulation for online pornography are important first steps in keeping children safe online. But these steps do not go far enough.

“The NSPCC is calling for social networks to be required by law to give under-18s safe accounts with extra protections built in, so that children are kept as safe online as they are in the real world.”

How will the ID age check for online pornography sites work?

Ministers laid out plans to make porn providers install age verification software on their adult sites similar to gambling sites.

Under new powers, regulators will be able to block porn websites if they fail to show that they are denying access to under-18s.

They will be required to demand credit card details or proof of age and face fines of up to £250,000 or being blocked by UK internet service providers.

Digital economy minister Matt Hancock said it would mean the UK having the “most robust internet child protection measures of any country in the world”.

The regulator – expected to be the British Board of Film Classification – will be required to ensure that methods are “robust” and go beyond simply ticking a box or typing in a date of birth to say that the user is over-18.

It is thought that initially credit card data will be used, but other methods will be adopted as technology develops, possibly including links to the electoral register.
Adult sites based anywhere in the world will be required to show that they are verifying users’ age.

It will be overseen by a new regulatory body, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport said.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/404203...e-pornography/

More proof why old women like May shouldn't have a say when it comes to technology, stupid old fucking bat.

On a side note, anyone know if VPN's will be able to get around this stupid law?

[Acidbaron]

"They will be required to demand credit card details or proof of age and face fines of up to £250,000 or being blocked by UK internet service providers."

Good bye free internet porn, a good VPN isn't free either and if there is one free that is good if a large number of people flock to it it won't be good anymore.


Good thing you no longer have the evil EU masters telling UK citizens what they may or may not do, also find this rather interesting "It will be overseen by a new regulatory body, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport said." What's next on big brothers list for that department to monitor?

[Aeula]

"They will be required to demand credit card details or proof of age and face fines of up to £250,000 or being blocked by UK internet service providers."

Good bye free internet porn, a good VPN isn't free either and if there is one free that is good if a large number of people flock to it it won't be good anymore.


Good thing you no longer have the evil EU masters telling UK citizens what they may or may not do, also find this rather interesting "It will be overseen by a new regulatory body, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport said." What's next on big brothers list for that department to monitor?

Already have a VPN. The worry is if May will try and force the websites to apply this to all countries.

[Sunseeker]

The fact that May has talked about regulating porn since day 1 was lost on you somehow?

[Aeula]

The fact that May has talked about regulating porn since day 1 was lost on you somehow?

Not at all. I've been well aware this was going to happen for a while.

The way she's regulating it is just more stupid and heavy handed than I'd first feared.

[Cybran]

But the British police will continue to hide pedophile rings.

[Blade Wolf]

So how long until the PM stands for Porn Minister insead?

[Kujako]

Already have a VPN. The worry is if May will try and force the websites to apply this to all countries.

Wouldn't she firsts have to try and force other countries to put those little dots over everyones private parts?

[Tinykong]

I'll never forget how scared I was when ALSScan required a credit card to view their "free" image list back in the day, and I used my mother's MasterCard to get access. I spent 3-4 weeks terrified that she would see a charge from the website, and discover my malfeasance.

[announced]

This is really something politicians should talk about, but not actually do. How many porn sites would you be willing to give your credit card details over to hoping they wont charge you a dime? my answer sits at 0.

[Adam Jensen]

So to stop people from looking at boobs we have to force even more exposure of a critical number like a CC#.

And what about people who don't have CC's? They can't view the porn? And how does this stop kids from stealing their parents CC and viewing the porn anyways?

What's the big deal about porn anyways? If you don't like it, don't view it.

[Aeula]

Right now it's Porn, how long until anything requiring you to input your age demands a credit card?

All this will do is put people's bank accounts at risk and encourage kids to steal their parents credit card to get into these sites.

[Adam Jensen]

The fact that May has talked about regulating porn since day 1 was lost on you somehow?

The fact that her rules are so draconian they'd effectively block Github from being accessed in GB makes this little thing not surprising at all. I mean, good luck with your tech industry Brits, when you lose a major platform for open source software, for your protection.

England prevails.

[xChurch]

Good thing the UK government doesn't have anything more pressing to worry about.

[Drutt]

Nice to see Blighty doing productive things with the Sovereignty it wanted back so much.

[Wyrt]

Proving once again that the right is only interested in small government when it suits them personally and don't give a fuck otherwise.

[Aeula]

This article goes into more detail: http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/...assport-UK-Law

They also could demand passport or department for work and pensions information to access these sites.

The law has already been sent off for royal assent, so it's pretty much going to be law.

[Mormolyce]

Good bye free internet porn

Pretty much only affects people who buy porn actually. Who... exist? Apparently?

I mean I'm not saying these measures are a good idea but they will be useless.

[Acidbaron]

Pretty much only affects people who buy porn actually. Who... exist? Apparently?

I mean I'm not saying these measures are a good idea but they will be useless.

Nope, read it again.

Ministers laid out plans to make porn providers install age verification software on their adult sites similar to gambling sites.

Under new powers, regulators will be able to block porn websites if they fail to show that they are denying access to under-18s.

All sites free or not will require an age verification system in place.

[paralleluniverse]

It appears that David Cameron's war on porn continues under Theresa May.

Like typical right-wingers, Tories have a prudish obsession with stopping porn. It's almost similar to how the most anti-gay bigots are secretly gay.

The austerity/deficit fetishists and racist Brexiteers get what they voted for.