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Pornhub to restrict access for UK users from February (www.bbc.co.uk)

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[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Sorry I misspoke, when I said it wouldn't work I was thinking of the negative knock-on effects that make this approach unworkable, not that it was entirely ineffective. What I'm trying to get at is that there were more effective options that the government for achieving it's stated goals, only allowing legal adults to access pornography, that didn't require you to send a picture of your ID or face to every website that happens to have nudes on it. But other, more privacy-friendly approaches wouldn't make adults hesitant to access porn websites and I think this quality of the current approach was a desirable effect.

Obviously it’s not the case that everything popular with the public is popular with politicians for the same reason, but if something is popular with the public you need quite a good reason to believe that politicians are in favour of it for some other motivation, and with all of that, we just don’t have that good reason.

I think politicians hating the concept of porn and liking the idea of having your real identity linked to your social media accounts are actually pretty good explanations for the government knowingly going with an inferior approach to all this.

Again, I think we're at an impasse, you're giving the former government a level charitably I can't. That's not to say prospective is unreasonable, I think it's perfectly reasonable, I just don't believe it.

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 3 points 4 hours ago

Fair enough, thanks for the chat