UK to enforce porn site age checks from April 2018
https://www.engadget.com/2017/07/17/uk-porn-site-age-checks-april-2018/
For years the UK government has toyed with the idea of
introducing compulsory age checks for online pornography. In
May, all of that talk finally came to a head with the Digital
Economy Bill, which forces websites hosting adult content to
snuff out under-18s. (Or at least try to, because there's
always a way around such things.) Today, digital minister Matt
Hancock announced that the new rule will come into effect next
April. The exact implementation is still unclear, however.
Forms that require your credit card details, or a check
against the electoral roll have all been discussed, but we're
still none the wiser about how it will actually work.
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More ridiculous UK posturing. Porn is available for free pretty much
all over the Net, including vast amounts on general-interest sites
(uh, at least that's what I'm, uh, told). There's no way to build an
age verification system that will really work or won't be abused. The
UK plan is purely an effort to build a database of porn viewers to
blackmail them one way or another later (that's government blackmail,
let's not even get into what happens when their database is hacked and
leaked). The UK leaders behind this are political hacks and chumps of
the lowest order. And they probably are viewing more porn than anyone
else in the country. Probably the worst kind of child porn, too --
isn't that always the way with these sanctimonious jerks?
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