People complaining about privacy, whilst using social media, free browsers, windows and no VPN.
Trust me your data is already out there being spread as soon as you booted windows, downloaded chrome or edge and logged into Facebook.
Edit: sorry it didn’t come across well.
I am not condoning the governments plan, in fact I think it’s fucking stupid.
But I do find it ironic people are worried about their data and then give everything freely to these ‘legit’ sites. They must be a phishers wet dream
I thought they had already binned this ludicrous idea?
The talk of 13-year-olds being exposed to pornography had me thinking back to the day when I first learned of its existence, long before anyone but serious nerds had ever heard of the Internet. It was at age 10. Some kid brought a copy of Hustler magazine to school and showed it to anyone who wanted to look. Like many of the other kids I failed to see why it was supposed to be so interesting. On reaching the age where one might seek it out it is of course easy to find. That’s been true for 50-some years at least and it’s difficult to imagine a world where it isn’t.
Maybe there’s no ethical pornography under capitalism, but as an excuse for building a system designed precisely for getting everyone to submit to having their official ID scanned before being allowed to participate in social media, I don’t think it’s a very good one.
Only, what? Several years after this was raised?
Fuck me, the BBC are a bit late to the party here…
And by that I mean, the shouts about this being ridiculous have become so loud, from so many sources, that the person who ‘arranged’ a loan to BoJo decided it was too big to ignore any more.
Or, are they convieniently forgetting all those mandated web blockers that blocked access to basic sexual health information because they were ‘sexual’ in nature?
Y’know, like ‘what is a period’
Kids are way more tech savvy than adults in regards to the Internet generally. All that will happen is if a kid really wants to access it they’ll find it through a dodgy site, the same as pirating movies. Hell, you find it when you aren’t even looking for it.
Raise? These were raised years ago when they first came up with this frankly insultingly bad scheme
Absolutely pointless there are ways around anything these days all it will means is that kids will get very tec savvy?
As if young people these days don’t know how to use a VPN or tor browser.
They would be the first recommendations complete with guide if one was to search for how to get round a blocked site.
Didn’t they try this in Utah and it just drove people to less secure and more dangerous sites?
Dear BBC, it doesn’t raise privacy concerns at this time. It raised it when this ludicrous idea came in years ago, and we’ve had these concerns for a long time now. This ain’t something that just fell out of the fucking sky after it had already been debated.
It’s a terrible piece of legislation
>The proposed amendments will mean user-to-user platforms, such as social media sites, that allow pornographic content will have to use age-checking technologies that are “highly effective” in identifying whether a user is a child or not – for example, estimating someone’s age from a selfie.
Guess what? Kids will just use VPNs for regions where these restrictions are not implemented.
This does nothing. It is a pointless breach of privacy.
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They’re STILL trying to do this?
I despise porn but this is ridiculous.
People complaining about privacy, whilst using social media, free browsers, windows and no VPN.
Trust me your data is already out there being spread as soon as you booted windows, downloaded chrome or edge and logged into Facebook.
Edit: sorry it didn’t come across well.
I am not condoning the governments plan, in fact I think it’s fucking stupid.
But I do find it ironic people are worried about their data and then give everything freely to these ‘legit’ sites. They must be a phishers wet dream
I thought they had already binned this ludicrous idea?
The talk of 13-year-olds being exposed to pornography had me thinking back to the day when I first learned of its existence, long before anyone but serious nerds had ever heard of the Internet. It was at age 10. Some kid brought a copy of Hustler magazine to school and showed it to anyone who wanted to look. Like many of the other kids I failed to see why it was supposed to be so interesting. On reaching the age where one might seek it out it is of course easy to find. That’s been true for 50-some years at least and it’s difficult to imagine a world where it isn’t.
Maybe there’s no ethical pornography under capitalism, but as an excuse for building a system designed precisely for getting everyone to submit to having their official ID scanned before being allowed to participate in social media, I don’t think it’s a very good one.
Only, what? Several years after this was raised?
Fuck me, the BBC are a bit late to the party here…
And by that I mean, the shouts about this being ridiculous have become so loud, from so many sources, that the person who ‘arranged’ a loan to BoJo decided it was too big to ignore any more.
Or, are they convieniently forgetting all those mandated web blockers that blocked access to basic sexual health information because they were ‘sexual’ in nature?
Y’know, like ‘what is a period’
Kids are way more tech savvy than adults in regards to the Internet generally. All that will happen is if a kid really wants to access it they’ll find it through a dodgy site, the same as pirating movies. Hell, you find it when you aren’t even looking for it.
Raise? These were raised years ago when they first came up with this frankly insultingly bad scheme
Absolutely pointless there are ways around anything these days all it will means is that kids will get very tec savvy?
As if young people these days don’t know how to use a VPN or tor browser.
They would be the first recommendations complete with guide if one was to search for how to get round a blocked site.
Didn’t they try this in Utah and it just drove people to less secure and more dangerous sites?
Dear BBC, it doesn’t raise privacy concerns at this time. It raised it when this ludicrous idea came in years ago, and we’ve had these concerns for a long time now. This ain’t something that just fell out of the fucking sky after it had already been debated.
It’s a terrible piece of legislation
>The proposed amendments will mean user-to-user platforms, such as social media sites, that allow pornographic content will have to use age-checking technologies that are “highly effective” in identifying whether a user is a child or not – for example, estimating someone’s age from a selfie.
Guess what? Kids will just use VPNs for regions where these restrictions are not implemented.
This does nothing. It is a pointless breach of privacy.