The UK will block online porn from April

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We've been calling at a nanny state for a good 20yrs now it's nothing new.

We've also been apparently entering a Owellian 1984 for 20 years too

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How would you know what it's ToS says, then? I mean, not that you didn't, but you thought you did.

I don't thus why I said I thought. It was an assumption. Besides I briefly read the ToS 5 years ago

[Kyriexo]

It's a pretty dumb move.

Aside from the inability to actually block all porn sites that exist, most porn is completely healthy and normal to look at. It's even more hilarious when you consider how often politicians are caught up in sex scandals including being caught looking at porn during working hours. Which, conveniently, gets blamed on interns.

Aaahhhh, the great forum sources, years upon years of research done on porn and this guy had the answer all along: "healthy and normal to look at"

Please hang yourself.

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Viewing porn doesn't hurt anyone. I'm all for shooting and killing thieves and vandals, because they are hurting others. I'm against drinking and driving because you can crash into an innocent person. This is a stupid enforcement on a practice that hurts nobody.

Yet again, years of research done on this and a random fellow on the internet had the answer all along.

Inform yourself about this, realize what BS you just wrote.

infracted - major flaming

[Missed]

In all honestly, is there any other force in nature more powerful than the drive of pubescent teens (boys especially I assume) to seek out porn? I remember how I was at 12 or 13. They WILL find ways of getting around these age restrictions - I mean I got around not even having internet access on my PC back in 2000.
And what good do British politicians think this law will do anyways? Improve general public decency? Higher church attendance? All this will do is make the people who consume online porn miserable (so virtually most of the country) and do nothing for those who don't. I know one thing for sure: If I had kids, them visiting porn sites would be the least of my worries.

This seems to be just another handle to pry into peoples private lives more.

We used to have a secret place with all our porn magazines or whatever. There is absolutely ZERO comparison to be made between then and now in regards to accessing pornographic material. So, if you're saying "it's OK it's always going to be the same", the answer is a mighty NO.

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We've also been apparently entering a Owellian 1984 for 20 years too

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I don't thus why I said I thought. It was an assumption. Besides I briefly read the ToS 5 years ago

Doing there best to make orwellian. But if there not carful they will get a clock work orange instead. Especially if the take away the porn

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Doing there best to make orwellian. But if there not carful they will get a clock work orange instead. Especially if the take away the porn

Least it will be interesting... Personally I doubt this restriction will work

[Spiffums]

pretty much this, op's creating hype over a non-issue. If your adult, you just ring your service provider and they verify your over 18 and allowed to view adult content, problem solved and you just do what you can do now.

This has already been in place for a while, examples as public service providers like shops, can't view porn in starbucks, haven't been able to for years, so nothing actually changes.

Are service providers in the habit of entering into a contract with minors?

[Orlong]

VPNs exist.

Very easy to prevent VPNs from being used on your computer. Just block the PPTP and L2TP ports at the router/Firewall level, then to keep them from connecting to the neighbors router, remove the WiFi card so they must be wired into yours

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Least it will be interesting... Personally I doubt this restriction will work

It is fundementaly pointless and another sign of just how out of touch those stuffy old people who sit in our government are from technology.

I knew how to use a proxy by about 12 and that was in 02. So i dread to think how clued in kids are now. So it won't stop what it's intended to and only make every one else's life more inconvenient and a little more risky by removing anonymity around a private thing.

I'm honestly so so so damn tired of the half thought out shit that comes out of the people who are supposed to be our best and brightest. Is it just me? I'm I not right to expect more intelligence both from our government and it's opposition?

I did wonder if this is what happens when all the smart people leave and all your left with to fill political party's is brown noesers, sheep and demagogues who don't really understand the ideology or history of what they put there banners behind

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It is fundementaly pointless and another sign of just how out of touch those stuffy old people who sit in our government are from technology.

I knew how to use a proxy by about 12 and that was in 02. So i dread to think how clued in kids are now. So it won't stop what it's intended to and only make every one else's life more inconvenient and a little more risky by removing anonymity around a private thing.

I'm honestly so so so damn tired of the half thought out shit that comes out of the people who are supposed to be our best and brightest. Is it just me? I'm I not right to expect more intelligence both from our government and it's opposition?

I did wonder if this is what happens when all the smart people leave and all your left with to fill political party's is brown noesers, sheep and demagogues who don't really understand the ideology or history of what they put there banners behind

/shrug

I didn't vote for them

[Orlong]

We used to have a secret place with all our porn magazines or whatever. There is absolutely ZERO comparison to be made between then and now in regards to accessing pornographic material. So, if you're saying "it's OK it's always going to be the same", the answer is a mighty NO.

That's true too. Back then you might see a topless woman or a hairy bush in magazines (which were also a lot harder to get your hands on unless your Dad had a stash), and easy access to lengthy videos of some nasty hoe getting double fisted, or simulated rape movies. Totally different accessibility and content types

[Beazy]

Blocking porn in the UK? Now would be a good time to invest in UK Proxy providers.

[MrPaladinGuy]

Sex workers are about to make a lot more money.

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This is why I bring up the UK when I call the US a "Free Country"

We may have shit healthcare and infrastructure, but we'll always have our porn.

Yeah but so will we, so win win

[Krigaren]

Kids under 18 can't buy porn videos from a porn shop. They can't go to peep shows. They can't buy porn mags at the corner convenience store (if mags are even a thing anymore). So why should they have ready access to porn online?

All this does is introduce an electronic version of a system that was in place for a long, long, long time in meatspace. Not seeing a problem.

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/shrug

I didn't vote for them

I dident know who to vote for so I voted green because I like tree's. It really is a poor state of affairs when I disagreed with all the party's so much saving trees was the only factor that got my vote :/

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My brothers one of these idiots who thinks its better to let government police stuff like this then taking actual responsibility for what he kids views and putting his own blocks on what they watch. He thinks censorship is better because 'won't somebody please think of the children'

You think most parents can set up effective blocking techniques and police their own network?

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Yeah, sure.

We'll see in a year when another bill trying to shut off access to porn hits parliament. It's not as if this was the first one, and it won't be the last. You are naive if you think otherwise.

You have to be paranoid to think the government will outlaw porn in the UK especially considering how liberal we are with sex

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This is a Christian Country! Thou shallt not sin here!

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Those systems don't need you to identify to government before every wank.

Oh shit that reminded me of the ceiling cat meme.

[Missed]

My brothers one of these idiots who thinks its better to let government police stuff like this then taking actual responsibility for what he kids views and putting his own blocks on what they watch. He thinks censorship is better because 'won't somebody please think of the children'

Oh so now he's the idiot.

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Also not seeing why it's the governments fucking business.

What do you mean. Can minors go and buy porn material anywhere in the real world in your country?

[Krigaren]

Also not seeing why it's the governments fucking business.

Why is it the government's business to regulate age of consent? Age to drink alcohol? To drive? To vote? To smoke?

Just because you personally feel attacked because "da gubment!" is involved doesn't automatically make it a bad idea, nor does it suddenly equate to your privacy or freedom being invaded. If you're over 18, the only thing that affects you is having to prove your age, same as anything else that's normally restricted to adults.