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How should small social network sites, forums or any sites that post user-generatrd content etc who can't afford to do age verification respond to this law? Block all requests from UK IPs? We are building a niche social network and don't want to be in the cross-hairs. Is anyone in a similar position? How's your company dealing with this? Edit: apart from cost, storing user IDs etc goes against our goal of building a…
Is this just people who REALLY need their porn, or a backlash like when people buy lots of guns because they think they will get banned?
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how would that work? Besides blocking the websites to download some VPN. Or if someone already has a VPN installed.
I see you’ve never been anywhere that blocks VPNs. First they will make it seem like only criminals would use VPNs, then they’ll target some actually shady VPN services to use as a scapegoat, then they’ll apply punitive measures to them specifically; then they will use the fact that they have already used punitive measures as a reason to use them blanketly. Technically: it’s pretty trivial to block almost all VPNs at…
Basically every new law, piece of news or media I see coming from the UK paints a picture of a beat-down, cynical & scared society that's complacent to or in support of increasing surveillance and control by the government. Like maybe Adolescence or basically any mention of the NHS. The crimes they cite like child grooming or terrorism/hate being incited sound pretty terrible too, but I wonder why the UK specifically…
In a word, division. The UK is so divided that people are too busy pointing the finger at each other to realise the root cause of the deterioration of our quality of life is entirely generations of mismanagement of the public purse. Instead of questioning how MPs are entitled to a pay rise while your average person gets made redundant, people are questioning why people fleeing persecution should ‘be paid for with my…
How should small social network sites, forums or any sites that post user-generatrd content etc who can't afford to do age verification respond to this law? Block all requests from UK IPs? We are building a niche social network and don't want to be in the cross-hairs. Is anyone in a similar position? How's your company dealing with this? Edit: apart from cost, storing user IDs etc goes against our goal of building a…
Focus on building and don't worry about being in regulatory crosshairs until you're actually in their crosshairs. The less you know about this stuff the better.
(also applies to GDPR, and even though GDPR has wider applicability, devs should focus on the low-hanging fruit first instead of going around in what-ifs and exceptions)
Is this just people who REALLY need their porn, or a backlash like when people buy lots of guns because they think they will get banned?
I genuinely think that some 20% of the population are incurable moral busybodies, and the main function of liberal democracy is to protect the rest of society from these people. In this case liberal democracy has failed to protect us from some truly terrible legislation. Its impact goes far beyond adult content, it's an open attack on freedom of expression in this country that will lead to the proliferation of scams…
If it was actually true that 80% of the population opposed this law, MPs would be falling over themselves to run against it and it would be gone immediately after the next election cycle.
I think it's a dumb law, but I also don't think the UK's democracy is that broken. It's pretty clear a majority of UK voters support or are at least ok with this law.
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You are approaching this from a uniquely U.S. perspective. The U.K. is pretty middle of the road as far as “surveillance” and while this may offend the freedom-at-all-costs sensibilities, it’s a fairly milquetoast change. Visiting the Heineken website in the U.S. requires that you assert you are over the age of 21. Texas has instituted I.D. verification for pornography. Regardless of how you feel about this law, it i…
>The U.K. is pretty middle of the road as far as “surveillance” Just, no. 5-eyes is the most heinous human-rights-destroying apparatus under the sun, and it wouldn't be happening if it weren't for the British desire to undermine cultures they have deemed inferior.
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Authoritarian CCTV cameras in Shenzhen Vs democratic CCTV cameras in London
Heavily monitored London, freedom America. https://techxplore.com/news/2021-06-prevalence-cctv-cameras-... Oh wait, Paris, NYC, SF, Tokyo have more cameras per sq. Km. Narrative.
You listed extremely dense cities. Of course they have more cameras per square.
This isn’t a narrative violation, it’s basic math.