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UK Implementing ID Checks for Porn

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    UK Implementing ID Checks for Porn

    https://www.mirror.co.uk/tech/uk-por...force-14091429
    https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/0...urvey_unaware/
    The controversial measures were introduced in the Digital Economy Act, which gained Royal Assent in 2017, and are due to come into force around Easter this year. It will require porn sites offering smut to UK users to have some kind of age-verification (AV) system in place.
    Meanwhile, the rules don't cover social media, which is one of multiple ways kids could still stumble across porn.

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    Wow, this sounds completely foolproof and no one could ever use someone else's ID and get access to porn...just the way no one under 18 or 21 or whatever has ever bought alcohol...

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    Or just use VPN.


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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRgNOyCnbqg

    Somehow reminded me of this
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    Of course they push the implementation responsibilities/costs on to the sites (that aren't even from the UK). If I was running those sites I would just throw up a list of VPN links to UK users.


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    Quote Originally Posted by methosb:
    Of course they push the implementation responsibilities/costs on to the sites (that aren't even from the UK). If I was running those sites I would just throw up a list of VPN link to UK users.
    Why would you send them to another site (even for referral revenues)? They can make money by forming a new company that does age verification for a price and revenues are shared.