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Which would be great if they had any realistic chance of actually winning an election.

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You have to remember, OB is a big fan of no-hope losers - Johnson, Truss, Reform… ;)

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Time will tell , doubtful I will be on around to see it. Wales won't put them in . Plaid , I fear will get that.

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They are currently the most popular party by far. Obviously things can change, but do you seriously think people are going to come back in droves to the Conservative or Labour Parties?

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Your constant jibes are making me think you have a crush on me, Hugh. Do you give your partner as much attention? I’m really flattered. :erm:

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Ofcom fines website £1.35m for not having age checks for adult content:

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safe...ing-age-checks

Also, the UK government yesterday announced a ban on 'incest simulation' in porn.

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No more taboo :shocked:

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I don’t know where that came from, but could you put it back wherever it manifested from, lock it in an airtight box, strap the box down with 1/2" chains attached to a concrete base, and then take off and nuke the entire site from orbit - it’s the only way to be sure.

You need serious help - have you spoken to your partner about these fantasies you have?

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Where is this company based though? The best I have managed to find is that apparently some of its website registrations had been moved to the Seychelles.

If true, then the chances of them ever paying a single penny of that fine are slim to none.

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Very true have to look as if they are doing something. Yet another waste of money.

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Complete waste of time, they will not pay the fine as Ofcom cannot enforce it on a company outside of the UK. Think of all the tax payers money wasted on investigating this and then have no return for all that effort. Ofcom are very quick to say who they have issued fines to, however they will not say who have actually paid them verses who has not.

More detailed info here

https://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/...e-verification


The reality is that even if the government blocked the IP's for these sites anyone who still wants to visit them will just circumnavigate the issue via a VPN

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If you check on ofcoms site, they handily list the actual websites (and ofcom isnt age protected :rolleyes:).

Some of the sites that were run by 8579 LLC have now been transferred to other companies.
Aside from just blocking the UK, these sites can just move companies, leaving the one "fined" as defunct.

Just another example of how utterly clueless the people who dreamed this up are. :dozey:
None of these sites are likely to be "accidently" viewed (by anyone), you have to go looking for them.

Imagine the ofcom job description ;
"You will be required to spend all day searching the internet for porn sites, and viewing them, to determine if they have age checks". :D

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It's like the reincarnation of Mary Whitehouse :erm:

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Online Safety Act the joke that just keeps on giving.

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It was brought to the attention of police that there were pictures of a 12 year old girl from the agd of 5 upwards being sexually abused circulating on the internet.

In order to try and trace her to stop the abuse, the police asked facebook to look for pictures of her on Facebook as parents often upload pictures of their children.

At first they claimed that it couldn't technically be done, the police said yes it can. They then refused on the grounds that it would breach privacy. In the end the police made them do it and the little girl was found & the offender dealt with (her mother had no idea that this had been happening.)

Now that various countries are trying to protect the vulnerable from inappropriate on line behaviour, companies are claiming that their protection is extremely important to them and taking measures to show this (eg Instagram can now alert parents to inappropriate searches.)

I think this shows that, left to their own devices, social media sites don't give a toss and would do anything to be uncooperative.

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The little girl is called Lucy and you can hear what happened here:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct8yw4