Uk porn ban to come into effect in july

[D3athsting]

Leave eu and return to victorian age? Cool

[Ryme]

It's for under 18 people only.

Do you think people under 18 need protecting? Do you think the ban will have a positive affect?

Either the ministers behind the bill are idiots or this is just a shoe in for additional privacy violations.

Inclusive or.

[Aphrel]

vpn companies rejoice.

[nocturnus]

I hope the government will be hardon anyone breaking this law and they face stiff penalties .

my job here is done... :P

Well, I'm sure they'll have a bone to pick with whomever thrusted this law into existence.

[Independent voter]

I don't mind laws that protect people in their formative years. Once they hit 18, they can browse all the porn, drink all the beer and smoke all the weed they want.

[Laerrus]

It will only take a few minutes and any guy or girl desperate enough will be viewing porn even with this silly law. If parents want to control what their kids see online, stop allowing them private and unsupervised access to the Internet. Don't allow them to have their computers or phones in their own bedrooms. Put the device in a high traffic family room.

[LeGin Tufnel]

Well, I'm sure they'll have a bone to pick with whomever thrusted this law into existence.

Stop tossing wild accusations around. I do wish you lot would stop banging on about it. See, man - it's just a non issue.

[Torched]

I'll just leave this here.

[Freshouttajail]

Naked bodies are being banned. That's the issue I have. It is as simple as that.

Why do you subjectively say "it is as simple as that" when it objectively is not that simple? Like how much effort do you put everyday into being wrong?

[Trassk]

Protecting underage from things to mature for them is fine.

The problem is the kinds of ultra conservative parents and busy bodies who make it their business to want to not just age block adult content, they want it removed entirely from society, and will use their kids to achieve their own selfish goals.

These are the same kinds of people who decades ago would call heavy metal rock a work of the devil. And all that does is give kids the mind to defy their own patents all the more.

Smarter people do things like teach children, allow then to discover things. I think by the time they start to become sexually active, like 15±, that letting them discover stuff for themselves and being a support for them if they have questions is the only rational thing to do. If you restrict them, they will just fight back all the more.

[Jonnusthegreat]

Why do you subjectively say "it is as simple as that" when it objectively is not that simple? Like how much effort do you put everyday into being wrong?

Less effort than you do to tell other people their opinions can't be simple or correct?

[Freshouttajail]

Less effort than you do to tell other people their opinions can't be simple or correct?

Opinions can be correct and incorrect. Yours happen to be incorrect.

[kail]

Easily.

Do it at source from the companies (ISPs and such), if they haven't blocked or restricted access to them, you hit them with a daily fine until they comply.

Or do people think there will be some form of Porn Police driving around in a car with tits for the sirens, and busting into peoples houses catching kids wanking on their PC without a permit?

It's going to be more on the sites themselves, not the ISPs. ISP blocking will apparently be the last resort which will again be circumvented by simple VPNs. There is also the measure of how much will be blocked and what constitutes as porn. Are all naked scenes in shows and movies banned? What about cartoons? Social media sharing?

It's the UK government taking the imitative and putting effort to enforce age verification. Is it worth the time and money? Is it worth the possible breach of privacy?

It will only take a few minutes and any guy or girl desperate enough will be viewing porn even with this silly law. If parents want to control what their kids see online, stop allowing them private and unsupervised access to the Internet. Don't allow them to have their computers or phones in their own bedrooms. Put the device in a high traffic family room.

Don't be silly, it's the governments job to do the parenting .

[TwistedSkull]

Why do you hate privacy?

Because he loves big government.

[Beerbill Society]

Thank God I wasn't a teenager in UK, you can't even jack off... That's utterly ridiculous

[Thelxi]

The UK is on a roll lol.

[Najnaj]

Is anyone stupid enough to think this will have ANY effect on the porn habits of teenage boys? Some church lady flexing a bit to no avail while a horny 16 year old will find a way around it...with ease.

[IIamaKing]

How will they enforce this on sites like reddit? Its not a porn site but there is plenty of porn there.

[Jonnusthegreat]

Opinions can be correct and incorrect. Yours happen to be incorrect.

Thanks for the laugh.

[LeGin Tufnel]

OR just get a VPN.

I don't really think VPNs have anything to do with it. Your average 16 year old might be able to arrange this, but your average 12 year old wouldn't.

The whole issue is to do with parental responsibility.

If your are not computer savvy enough to know how to stop your 12 year old from accessing porn, then you really are a bit thick. Doesn't need puritanical legislation cloaked in the guise of something softer.

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Rest assured: Your 12 years old is literally balls deep into the kinky depths already, and anything you deem scary is at most curious to him. Let him, but also talk about this. In a non-judgy, but supportive manner. Please.

I'll take this on the chin... but, no, you're completely wrong....