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The EU, like Texas, Florida, etc wants age verification on porn websites. To “safeguard children” ofcourse.
They pinky promise that the surveillance machine they’re building will never be used for harm!
I play the game called “VPN to the US south and try to find pr0n”
It’s not very difficult. Only the big sites apparently have to comply with the ban. It’s still fucked up and authoritarian tho
This has resulted in many porn sites simply denying users from those locations.
Years ago the .xxx TLD was introduced for adult websites. If we’re going to regulate adult sites. Why not require them to use .xxx for their domains and let parental controls do the rest?
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We’re not taking about security. We’re taking about unsupervised children seeing boobies.
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You’re not wrong. But if I had to pick between blocking .xxx on my kid’s device or uploading a photo of my ID to various porn sites, I know which one I’m choosing.
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Access to .xxx domains can be mandated to require detection of parental controls, and needing proper age verification if they are not in use.
Or I am missing some design problem here?
This is a parents are too lazy to parent concern not a security concern.
In a January blog post, it said age verification should take place on users’ devices, such as through their operating system, rather than on individual, age-restricted sites.
The details of this are potentially problematic, as they could preclude the use of open source browsers and operating systems.
It would be great to standardize an HTTP header that says the user is underage, which could be sent by any OS/browser combination that has suitable parental controls.
Technical solutions don’t do shit and only inconvenience or compromise regular users. Where are the parents in all this?
It is increasingly unrealistic to entirely prevent children from having unsupervised access to internet-connected devices from a young age, but attempts to make it impossible for anyone under 18 to access porn are equally unrealistic, and often far worse than the problem they purport to solve.
With good parenting, the possibility of accessing porn won’t harm most kids. It’s not just about keeping them away from it, but about teaching healthy and realistic attitudes toward sex.
I do not think politicians know what children see on Roblox
A recent EU workgroup on this spend 50 minutes discussing the implications on the “metaverse”.
These people really have no idea how technology works. They just know the marketing of the big few social media companies.
Someone should tell them about IPFS.
Won’t somebody think of the children!!! If we ban Pornhub then all the children will be saved forever!
The Fediverse exists. AFAIK, there is a Lemmy porn instance.
What happens on the Fediverse, stays on the Fediverse.
Do kids go to websites to see porn? Or they are bombard with pornography in social medias?
Considering the disgusting ads I see on youtube all the time, I do think there needs to be more regulation around it to be honest
I certainly did as a kid in the late 90s and early 2000s. I found dirty magazines before I had access to the Internet, and after I visited both pornsites and outright gore like rotten.com. None of it harmed me in any way.
If anything, the various shock sites we were tricked into seeing, like goatse, tub girl, lemon party and 2 girls 1 cup were worse, but even those weren’t too bad, and I appreciate understanding the cultural references to them.
The real question is whether seeing some porn is actually a problem. I’d argue not, provided there’s also sex ed teaching you that porn does not model healthy sex or relationships.
True… Just observe the YouTube ads…
Why does it seem to me that Britain is becoming a testing ground for bad laws that then turn into EU directives that then member countries must implement?
Good. The effects of porn culture is a serious problem and free sites like pornhub are extra exploitative of the workers who create the content.
I agree with you here, but we both know they have ulterior motives for this
I care less about intention than impact tbh and pornography is banned or restricted in almost every country outside of the west for a reason. This is just the west catching up imo.
I’m glad the EU is attempting to gate keep this filth but its never going to work. The kids will bypass this of course, they aren’t stupid. The EU would also have to ban all kinds of VPNs, AI generation and file sharing to achieve this goal.
Regulation doesn’t always have to produce absolute prevention, even strong deterrence can be impactful.
We’ve seen how excessive porn consumption impacts the development (particularly of boys) so increased regulation is a thoughtful move.
Regulation doesn’t always have to produce absolute prevention
Making laws with the intent that they will be broken, has the additional benefit that almost everyone is a criminal, ready to be re-educated.
I’ve already lived this way in the DDR. I do not recommend to others.
Making laws with the intent they will be broken is different from having an understanding they will be broken.
People break speed limits every day. There is no intent they will be broken but an understanding that it will happen. Overall though, people obey them and roads are safer as a result.
Overall though, people obey them and roads are safer as a result.
Ooh boy, you clearly have never driven in Italy.
Making laws with the intent they will be broken is different from having an understanding they will be broken.
The consequences are the same, even if intent differs: those breaking the rules, in this case not giving personal information to a 3rd party, in the other example speeding, are criminals.
If someone hits you because they love your, or they hit you because they hate you, either case you’ve been hit.
