Teens talk to each other at school and online. Any attempt to block them will be bypassed faster than I can type this comment. They can and do share porn on Discord and other platforms. Some also stream it inside video games and watch together. Some games have video players in-game most commonly in VR games. No VPN required. Oh and of course they could just hand each other thumb drives with password protected 7-zip files. I suspect governments are going to be playing a futile game of whack-a-mole for some time.
"Stop children using VPNs to watch porn", UK politicians told
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#12Surely VPN photo ID checks would increase water usage!?!?
Jokes aside, teenagers can be smart at evading censorship. Should a democratic society play a cat and mouse game with a more motivated and more nimble adversary, who will often be smarter too?
Are they not aware that it's something they would have to force on everyone's device? GDPR cookie banners are a good example of poorly executed government meddling, the Online Safety Bill could yet be even more annoying, and we're still learning about the lies and ineptitude seen by the Post Office scandal. Why entertain playing a cat and mouse game like that? I don't think we want to see how invasive government computer meddling can be. People coming up with these ideas need to think really carefully about what the actual results could be once they have gone through committee and started bothering their constituents.
Perhaps more importantly, they should remember 16 year olds are going to be able to vote soon.
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#13Surely VPN photo ID checks would increase water usage!?!? Jokes aside, teenagers can be smart at evading censorship. Should a democratic society play a cat and mouse game with a more motivated and more nimble adversary, who will often be smarter too? Are they not aware that it's something they would have to force on everyone's device? GDPR cookie banners are a good example of poorly executed government meddling, the…
It's not about teens' access to the porn obviously, but it's always a convenient flag to rally under (because anyone opposing it gets immediately labeled as nonce).
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#14This is actually a great time to launch a product for 13-18 year olds who'll be looking for something else to do on their phones during the 6 hours they used to spend watching porn. I'm thinking of an AI tool that automatically dresses people in porn videos, turning them into 12+ content. The Pro+ plan could even replace the moaning with actual dialogue. That way they can keep watching their favourite movies without…
Spider-Man and Elsa meet up but NOBODY gets pregnant!!
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#15At some point I expect the UK government to come and say “stop kids having unapproved opinions” and introduce some more liberticide laws.
Ao sad to see how the uk has fallen from a beacon of freedom to… whatever it is nowadays.
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#16This being the UK... Perhaps better to establish The Office of Permission, then ban everything except requesting a permission form the new office... And thus create a whole permission economy, putting the `Great` back in Great Britain... /s
It doesn't affect us, so why complain? We can always just get a visa to watch porn.