The authorities just do not seem to understand computers, the internet or even porn sites and gambling. Many Americans are gambling online yet they are not allowed to, many UK citizens are getting blocked porn, yet again they are not allowed to. I use a VPN which I pay for and can therefore circumvent any silly state run cartel or the opposite. They would be far better off education the families on how to operate say openDNS. Last year I found that the IT section of my Grandaughters school did not know that children had circumvented all their blocking software. I had to explain it to them. My French grandaughters school has nothing!
UK.gov admits porn age checks could harm small ISPs and encourage risky online behaviour
Enforcing age verification checks for online porn sites could be detrimental to smaller ISPs and significantly increase online fraud, the government has admitted. The measures, which are due to come into force in May, will require UK residents to prove they are 18 or over in order to get access to porn sites. The plans have …
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Friday 5th January 2018 22:38 GMT J.G.Harston
Oh no! Boobs! and willies! And eek! what's he doing? That's the British Museum shut down.
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Saturday 6th January 2018 12:54 GMT Rol
Why stop there?
As a way of enforcing the fast spreading 20mph speed limit on many roads, the council could force drivers to buy a red flag carrying robot which can run no faster than 20mph in front of the car.
Sounds no less bonkers than having to hand over your credit card details to a porn site in Nigeria.
My ISP knows full well I'm over 18 and have no children, so why isn't that sufficient to stop my internet getting fitted with training wheels, a bib and a Nanny McPhee bottom wiping service?
If I was a full-blown conspiracy theorist, I'd be inclined to think the whole thing was designed to support ISP's in charging more for a more intrusive service, whilst also supporting a more effective means of charging for porn in a world that has gotten accustomed to viewing it for free.
And if my many years under the yoke of Tory governments has revealed anything, it is their finding of ways of forcing the public into paying into Tory donor/owned businesses, has been at the heart of every policy they have ever concocted.
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Saturday 6th January 2018 13:33 GMT Rol
Unsolicited Goods and Services Act 1971
"Sir! Sir! I've just found this brown envelope on the chair. It must belong to that man from the Make Money Make Porn lobbying group"
"Are you sure Smythe?"
"Well he has been sat there for the past hour bemoaning how the porn industry needs to reign in all the freebies everyone seems content to slurp up"
"Yes, I see how that might appear, but to be safe I best take hold of it and see if he comes back"
"I could chase after him sir"
"No! No need, if he notices it's missing he can arrange to have it collected"
"But.."
"Enough now Smythe. The unsolicited goods act is quite clear on the matter and Mr Lipstick Round The Nipple has three months in which to affirm his rights to the item and retake possession. After which it becomes my property"
"Yes sir. Of course sir. Is there anything else you need assistance with?"
"Mm. Yes as a matter of fact I do. You remember Mary Whitehouse and her campaign against, well, nature."
"Yes I do"
"Well I need you to find her modern equivalent, because I have some mean minded legislation to push through parliament"
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Monday 8th January 2018 10:13 GMT Anonymous Coward
Free pron?
Reading that PDF is sort of strange. It seems to say that this only applies to commercial websites.
Does that mean it's OK for children to view free pron? But to view pay-for-pron they have to have their age verified, or steal their parents card number which they probably already did?
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Monday 8th January 2018 16:21 GMT Anonymous Coward
"Meanwhile, the estimated cost to large ISPs of blocking sites – on the assumption that this would be for between 1 and 50 sites a year on a DNS level – is in the range of £100,000 to £500,000, "
If ISPs don't want to implement - then I can understand the high figure - however - most ISP's use firewalls and IDS/IDP hardware within their data centres that can filter on categories (porn being one of those) or implemented cheaply through a proxy at the data centre,
It'll not stop VPN's or other types of behaviour t get around.
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Monday 8th January 2018 17:21 GMT Handle123456
It's the parents' job to raise children and protect them from harm, not government's!
If a child is old and clever enough to circumvent the protection, it's old and clever enough to see a naked tit.
The British ought to work on other problems, but I guess seeing a naked boob might cripple a child for life, while being repeatedly raped by an "oppressed minority" gang is perfectly fine.
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Tuesday 9th January 2018 18:31 GMT Charles 9
But it can still be a warning sign of parental neglect, which CAN result in delinquency. Instead of focusing on the porn, look at the bigger issue of parental abdication. If you want to reduce delinquency, you're going to need to make parents own up and take responsibility. Got any ideas against such things as broken and abusive families and parents who simply don't give a soaring screw?
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Biting the hand that feeds IT
