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Originally Posted by Sirius
Again define what is an Adult site, who decides which site would be adult and which would not, who ever that is has a lot of sites to look at and determine if it is adult or not. If it is the site owner who would check they have designated the site correctly
Would you for instance class the BBC news website as adult, would you class Cable forum as adult or child safe.
What about sites that are hosted in country's that do not conform to the rules that are laid down. Do you then ask the ISP's to block those sites however remember that can be circumnavigated by using a simple free VPN and many of those are based in country's that do not have to follow the Online Safety Bill rules.
This is the latest on the toothless OFCOM
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c624330lg1ko
Here is another question
I honestly think this will lead to yet more data gathering via age checking. However even the age checking is easily circumnavigated by anyone with a little knowledge. |
If this idea came to fruituon, which sites are designated as being age restricted would have to be mutually decided upon either country by country or worldwide.
Social media sites and pornography will be easy to define, but I agree that others aren't as clear cut. This site is self defined as a family friendly site but, like you say, should the BBC News website be restricted? On the one hand it may feature images and descriptions of the horrors of war, but should we be restricting news to young people, simply because it's unpleasant?
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Originally Posted by nffc
It will be interesting to see how that works.
Kids are already banned from buying alcohol but some still drink it, for example.
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Indeed, whatever measures they decide upon, there will always be some who manage to circumvent it. They could ban children from using/buying VPN'S, but some are free and they may be using their parents. Also, what about free WiFi that spills onto the streets? Would hotels etc wish to limit what their adult guests can access? If not, children could simply stand outside with their phones (assuming it wasn't password protected.)