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A spec for online age verification is due to be published on Monday, a decision backers hope will pacify opponents of the smut checks. The move comes as the pornography industry gets ready for a major overhaul of the way viewers can access web-based content, with everyone who wants to have a quick fiddle asked to verify they …

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    1. Charles 9

      Re: Enjoy your new found censorship

      So pick your poison: anarchy or the police state. Either way you're gonna get reamed without lube.

  1. unwarranted triumphalism

    Thanks goodness the government is finally doing something

    Because something must be done. And this is something. Therefore it must be done.

    The logic is inescapable.

  2. Duffaboy
    Happy

    Asking for a friend

    Will they still be able to google Stormy Daniels

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    To make this fair...

    If we (obviously not me, of course) have to provide our age, then 'executive stress relief' sites should be able to freely advertise on billboards, in newspapers, on TV and in kids' comics. Oh and on T-Shirts too. And get rid of those goddam Tiivago ads - 'the riiight hotel for the right praaaas' - f**k you to hell Trivago harridan! She should be banned. And don't get me started on chewing gum. And those people in little cars who drive too slowly. And bloody Imagine Dragons. Tools. Damn them.

  4. scrubber

    Protect the children

    If the government don't want the kids to see explicit material then they should stop producing legislation that fucks the public in the ass on a regular basis.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Protect the children

      Don't be silly.

      The government want to make sure that teenagers seeking erotic entertainment can only find it in the arms of their local MP.

      As a rule, the more puritannical somebody is, the more perverse they are. Google "gay homophobe" for a more mundane example.

  5. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    keen interest

    It's heart-warming to see so many posts on the subject of fundamental human right of anonymous access to porn. Beats (hands down!) other vital issues, such as, MS are scumbags / Google are evil / Apple are shit

  6. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Privacy?

    You will be tracked. Resistance is futile.

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