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[–] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 9 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

All such laws fail to appreciate one key point - if little Timmy wants titties, little Timmy is going to move heaven and earth to get them.

Credit card for id? Sorry mum, the call of the boobies was too great.

Scanned photo id? Sorry dad, just borrowing your license - you understand.

Facial age estimation? Time to buy a grandpa facerig and voice morph with my pocket money!

On the upside, the next generation is going to be very very very tech literate, for necessity is the mother of invention. Sadly, they're also likely to be into some dark shit as only non-conforming sites are easily accessible.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 3 points 10 hours ago

This is a really terrible idea and you touched on why, mainstream websites that aren't compliance with the law do things like make sure there's no children on their website and other such things but on regulated sites who the fuck knows what's going on and I don't even want to find out. It also can't restrict someone who's younger finding an adult will verify it and have a place, which could lead them to some dark places if they're looking for an adult who would Age verify for them on a porn website, or even just any social space online now

[–] thatradomguy@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

Going off the headline alone... wouldn't that imply that people aren't using VPNs to watch porn? If they were, the porn sites wouldn't be seeing a decline. Anyway, just a random nitpick.... carry on...

EDIT: Ok, I'm just realizing that the site may only be seeing the same VPN IP address for like 50 people at a time. Sorry, forgot my CCNA.

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

Please read the article. It answers all your questions.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 1 points 10 hours ago

They're probably also showing up as non-uk addresses because UK address and points would be just as horrible as coming out in Iran or somewhere like that

[–] oneser@lemmy.zip 127 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Next up: "Why VPNs are ruining our lives/children and how this next law will ban them. Don't worry, only bad people have something to hide!"

[–] plyth@feddit.org 7 points 1 day ago

As can be seen in Michigan.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wonder if that isn't exactly the goal behind all this shit.

[–] Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 19 hours ago

Yes. Anything to extract more data from us and sell it

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 52 points 1 day ago (5 children)

The UK isn't doing so well, when did it become so ultra authoritarian as to overtake Russia? Even number of arrests for social media comments online?

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 2 points 10 hours ago

Capitalists are doing a way of democracy and implementing outright fascism because nothing short of that will be able to maintain the extreme levels of wealth inequality that we have now and continue to accelerate

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 21 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

There are more cctv cameras per sq mile in the UK than China

It's absolutely a surveillance state

[–] WALLACE@feddit.uk 6 points 19 hours ago

China has twice as many cameras per person than the UK

[–] Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Doesn’t china have massive deserts that no one lives in? Doesn’t seem like a great comparison

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago

So you can do things and go places more often in china without being tracked

We are allowed to notice dystopian tendencies in western governments as well

[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

See this here u/Jhex, this is a comparison that makes sense because it is a criticism of the "surveillance state" by comparing numbers of CCTV cameras between a parliamentary democracy with free and fair elections and an authoritarian state which does not and highlights that whilst one has much more political freedoms they both have a large surveillance state apparatus and you'd expect one of them to have a smaller one.

[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Please explain how the UK is now more authoritarian than Russia; a country that rigs elections, disappears/assassinates political opposition, and invades neighbouring sovereign nations to ethnically cleanse them?

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (10 children)

so you want to wait until it beats Russia in all authoritarian metrics before acknowledging the problem?

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[–] TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works -3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, the UK invented invading and ethnic cleansing.

[–] WALLACE@feddit.uk 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Pretty sure that was being done for millennia before the UK was around. The UK itself suffered multiple invasions and genocides before the empire was a thing.

[–] TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 hours ago

mmm my favorite game of pass the genocide buck

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago

maybe because its being pushed by russia

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[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 36 points 1 day ago (21 children)

I mean, isn't that first part exactly what the legislation was about? They want to ban porn and make people angry and desperate for a revolution. They're removing the circuses to go along with the removing the bread thanks to SNAP and other funds being frozen. They absolutely must want a violent revolution.

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