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The UK will block online porn from April. Here's what we know
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Re: The UK will block online porn from April. Here's what we know
#22There is a bit of confusion, because this law was effectively dropped in 2019 but then resurrected and passed in 2023. Enforcement is due to start in 2025, with Ofcom currently exploring feedback from industry and users. People will be supposed to authenticate with official ID (passport, driving license, etc) when connecting to porn sites from the UK. Obviously the VPN market is already on the case - the question rea…
Ironic considering the UK does not have any requirement to have an ID. Passports and Driving Licences (sic) are not mandatory. The effort to create ID cards was abandoned ~20 years ago. Will people really be expected to get a non-driving Driving Licence to access porn? It seems governments everywhere are abdicating their primary responsibility as a single point of personal identification, then outsourcing solutions t…
Some other countries, such as Ireland, have photo ID cards that only exist to prove that you are a certain age. (almost exclusively 18, to purchase alcohol) They have no other requirements to get, beyond proof of identity.
IIRC, it's so limited because of a similar backlash against creating a national ID scheme.
Re: The UK will block online porn from April. Here's what we know
#23Yeah that’s never happening. Not without some great firewall of Britain equivalent. Sites on the ass end of nowhere won’t care what British law says
Re: The UK will block online porn from April. Here's what we know
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
> to smaller, rogue sites where everything goes Or social networks becoming even more common for hosting/access. Reddit has a board for every category you'd want. Twitter is also full of content. I can't see any one of them requesting approval per-url.
That's covered by the Online Safety Act 2023, which effectively places responsibility on social media for the content they carry. It's very likely that we'll soon see calls to ban the whole of Reddit, for example. Predictions in this field are somewhat difficult because the UK government is likely to change at some point in the next 8 months - but the Act had bipartisan support, so it's possible that these policies w…
I know someone will try to address this. But I believe it's futile. I can't see a future where Reddit uses country specific access rules per board and monitors all posts to ensure all boards comply.
Re: The UK will block online porn from April. Here's what we know
#25Will they require people to provide IDs on Twitter and Reddit?
Tennessee will starting Jan 1 Anyone wants to build out an id checking system to satisfy these silly things, I might be interested in building / promoting / running one that actually has privacy things in place.
Someone will build it, and someone else will crack it, and someone else will be very very sorry.
Re: The UK will block online porn from April. Here's what we know
#26Yeah that’s never happening. Not without some great firewall of Britain equivalent. Sites on the ass end of nowhere won’t care what British law says
The great firewall of Britain already exists, just at the DNS level. See my other comment above with the Wikipedia link.
Re: The UK will block online porn from April. Here's what we know
#27There is a bit of confusion, because this law was effectively dropped in 2019 but then resurrected and passed in 2023. Enforcement is due to start in 2025, with Ofcom currently exploring feedback from industry and users. People will be supposed to authenticate with official ID (passport, driving license, etc) when connecting to porn sites from the UK. Obviously the VPN market is already on the case - the question rea…
Presumably a whole generation will have to learn how to torrent.
That could dent Netflix revenues.
Re: The UK will block online porn from April. Here's what we know
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Tennessee will starting Jan 1 Anyone wants to build out an id checking system to satisfy these silly things, I might be interested in building / promoting / running one that actually has privacy things in place.
Someone will build it, and someone else will crack it, and someone else will be very very sorry.
Exactly why I want something akin to proton meets signal with a dose of blockchain and hashing, and creative ways to finance without the need to slay people's privacy for the ad dollars, and auto-deleting everything regularly.
I vaguely recall a thread on HN way back that said someone has a copyright or something on online-ID-chcking and need to license (a portion?) of the process? not sure the details or dates.. but this can be profitable and privacy, and fluid to help with other id check systems.
Even though I strongly hope the supreme court throws these kinds of laws and rules, looks like Euro or parts of it may keep these, and there are other use cases so it wouldn't be a total waste.
Re: The UK will block online porn from April. Here's what we know
#29Yeah that’s never happening. Not without some great firewall of Britain equivalent. Sites on the ass end of nowhere won’t care what British law says
The great firewall of Britain already exists, just at the DNS level. See my other comment above with the Wikipedia link.
As a side note "see my other comment" is a UX disaster on hn platform. Which one? Where? Now I need to hunt for something to figure out what you're trying to communicate? No....
Re: The UK will block online porn from April. Here's what we know
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
The great firewall of Britain already exists, just at the DNS level. See my other comment above with the Wikipedia link.
As a side note "see my other comment" is a UX disaster on hn platform. Which one? Where? Now I need to hunt for something to figure out what you're trying to communicate? No....
I've just been a bit lazy. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40355346