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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
Several porn sites now being investigated to see if they meet the required level of robust age checks.
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Which takes about 10 seconds, load the site, do you get an age check. Done.
Of course, ofcom will turn it into weeks of work
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Originally Posted by nffc
It's not the porn sites which is the worrying thing, arguably they should be making sure only appropriate aged adults see their content anyway.
It's more the fact this covers more than porn sites even in its current form, any site where users interact with other users is in scope (including forums, and that's why sites like x, reddit, discord, bluesky have all gone into age verification) and that ultimately they could just block content to UK users (not just children) if the government deems that it needs expanding.
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Here is the problem.
If this was purely just for porn sites, I doubt so many people would care, but its been expanded way beyond this, and is just incredibly stupid now.
Many sites will not go into all the complication of age checks, and just do what some porn sites have already done, i.e. just block the UK completely.
Those that do age checks will lose many UK visitors as no matter how the goverment protests they are safe, people dont trust age check systems.
I am one of them, will not hand any personal details over to any of them, I'll just use a VPN where necessary (and no, I dont mean porn sites).
Its one of the most dumb and poorly thought out laws ever, it wont stop what they think it will, but will kill the UKs (direct) access to many parts of the net.
China, North Korea & Russia would be proud of such a system.