I agree but there are major problems with the state trying to enforce this.
First, it's not obvious what pornography is. Usually it's just equated to nudity, but that's extremely reductive. On the other hand, there are tons of pron on youtube, with no nudity, that are way more degenerate than hetero sex.
The second is that this grants justification for government interference. If they have a system requiring ID for websites, they won't waste a second in applying that to private communication services, commerce, and probably just accessing the internet period.
Pron is bad, but it's a cultural issue, not a legal issue, and the government is the last group of pedos I'd let govern it.
1 year ago5 points(+0/-0/+5Score on mirror)2 children
All for show. These age verification bills don't work because VPN's exist. They've already been defeated, if anyone noticed them at all. Most Brits already use VPNs because their Orwellian govt will arrest them for posting memes.
Second, I can't even call these well-meaning laws because they mandate the use of third-party verification providers. They're basically forcing websites to funnel our data to third-party companies for their own profit, possibly even blackmail material.
1 year ago3 points(+0/-0/+3Score on mirror)1 child
Indubiously. I've said here many times this is how they make their money: *Fees, Fines, Rents.*
They lobby govt to create unnecessary "bottlenecks" within industries that force us to contract with them. They're bridge trolls. These are also all paper businesses: lawyers, accountants, realtors, brokers, inspections, permits, etc. They don't actually make anything or provide any value, and there's no inventory to manage. It's all on paper. If I could teach everyone in the world one thing, it would be that. None of them have real jobs. Their "business" is stamping paper in exchange for fees, fines or rents.
1 year ago2 points(+0/-0/+2Score on mirror)2 children
This is objectively a good thing - it destroys free porn. The cheapest systems are 3 cents per user for verification, so $30/1k users. No profit margin at all. No free porn site has that kind of margin from ads.
1 year ago2 points(+0/-0/+2Score on mirror)1 child
Even just having this small obstacle to accessing pron will deter people.
There's a bridge in Toronto that was known for suicides. They put up a 5' fence, which was certainly not insurmountable, and it stopped something like 90% of the cases.
It's not even the matter of the obstacle - there will simply be substancially less free porn websites period. Free porn sites will get destroyed by age verification because the business model cannot support to costs involved in age verification.
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The police would literally arrest you if you tried to stop them
Tommy Robinson knows.