Whether or not children view adult material isn’t something the governments should bother themselves with, but parents. Meaning, be an actual parent. These laws are nothing but a smokescreen for censorship and control, nothing more and nothing else. The Internet needs and must be uncensored, free, and full of absolutely everything. These decrepit boomeresque approaches to it are to be shamed and ignored.
This type of legislation is coming up more and more frequently all over the world and it shouldn’t come as a surprise.
Porn falls into the same broad discussion that applies to online addictions as a whole, with the added aspect of why the online sex industry isn’t held to the same standards as IRL venues other than “more people use them”. And that will only get more ambiguous with increasingly interactive tech.
We’ve already seen with Pornhub a couple years ago that big financial services are skittish enough even without existing legislation to walk away from the money. I give it a few years before all the big sites reroute through third party identity verification to access.
Guess it’s time to send pornhub a picture of my id lol
Wankers.
Woah, thanks. I was forgetting my afternoon wank
From the text
> Other nations, such as Australia and the UK, have run into difficulties in identifying a robust technical age verification solution that also complies with privacy standards.
Well, they have actually lined “the solution”: Digital ID. This will be the first use case. Creating demand for something that nobody really wants.
And there I thought pornhub was on the UNESCO World Heritage Sites list.
My bad. I was wrong.
Despite what all of us think of these strict measures I think it is incredibly rich that Pornhub is alleging that they only had about 33 million visitors monthly from Europe. They are taking the piss so hard that the EU comission just instantly called their bullshit.
Yea it starts with porn sites than it becomes China censorship of internet.
Is this similar to the legislation that the UK has tried, and are trying again to introduced and as a result was rightfully derided here as a bunch of clueless right wing proto fascist monsters from the black lagoon of hell ( might be exaggerating slightly)?
PH should lobby for PEGI-Http-Headers ..
Pornhub is shit anyway, there are much better alternatives. At least that’s what my friend told me.
Bye democracy! 😔👋👋
Nice our politicians have priorities, not like anything else is going on!
Finally, that 1984 that I always dreamed of.
Juat ban porn already
May as well get a VPN at this point fook these governments
People thought this law was about “illegal content”. Now they know it was about mass-surveillance and restricting legal content. How long before it comes to reddit?
Soon we’ll go back to the good old days of downloading shady files from even shadier sites.
Better title: “*EU regulation will generate more revenue for VPN providers*”.
They claim such content is dangerous. Because social media and even targeted advertisement are also considered very dangerous then just flat-out ban phones and the whole internet for 16- (Isn’t 18 a bit too extreme?).
Yet for any age group it is a fact that websites and third parties who wiggle themselves in between can’t be trusted with, and I quote GDPR Article 4 section 1:
>*‘personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person;*
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Whether or not children view adult material isn’t something the governments should bother themselves with, but parents. Meaning, be an actual parent. These laws are nothing but a smokescreen for censorship and control, nothing more and nothing else. The Internet needs and must be uncensored, free, and full of absolutely everything. These decrepit boomeresque approaches to it are to be shamed and ignored.
This type of legislation is coming up more and more frequently all over the world and it shouldn’t come as a surprise.
Porn falls into the same broad discussion that applies to online addictions as a whole, with the added aspect of why the online sex industry isn’t held to the same standards as IRL venues other than “more people use them”. And that will only get more ambiguous with increasingly interactive tech.
We’ve already seen with Pornhub a couple years ago that big financial services are skittish enough even without existing legislation to walk away from the money. I give it a few years before all the big sites reroute through third party identity verification to access.
Guess it’s time to send pornhub a picture of my id lol
Wankers.
Woah, thanks. I was forgetting my afternoon wank
From the text
> Other nations, such as Australia and the UK, have run into difficulties in identifying a robust technical age verification solution that also complies with privacy standards.
Well, they have actually lined “the solution”: Digital ID. This will be the first use case. Creating demand for something that nobody really wants.
And there I thought pornhub was on the UNESCO World Heritage Sites list.
My bad. I was wrong.
Despite what all of us think of these strict measures I think it is incredibly rich that Pornhub is alleging that they only had about 33 million visitors monthly from Europe. They are taking the piss so hard that the EU comission just instantly called their bullshit.
Yea it starts with porn sites than it becomes China censorship of internet.
Is this similar to the legislation that the UK has tried, and are trying again to introduced and as a result was rightfully derided here as a bunch of clueless right wing proto fascist monsters from the black lagoon of hell ( might be exaggerating slightly)?
PH should lobby for PEGI-Http-Headers ..
Pornhub is shit anyway, there are much better alternatives. At least that’s what my friend told me.
Bye democracy! 😔👋👋
Nice our politicians have priorities, not like anything else is going on!
Finally, that 1984 that I always dreamed of.
Juat ban porn already
May as well get a VPN at this point fook these governments
People thought this law was about “illegal content”. Now they know it was about mass-surveillance and restricting legal content. How long before it comes to reddit?
Soon we’ll go back to the good old days of downloading shady files from even shadier sites.
Better title: “*EU regulation will generate more revenue for VPN providers*”.
They claim such content is dangerous. Because social media and even targeted advertisement are also considered very dangerous then just flat-out ban phones and the whole internet for 16- (Isn’t 18 a bit too extreme?).
Yet for any age group it is a fact that websites and third parties who wiggle themselves in between can’t be trusted with, and I quote GDPR Article 4 section 1:
>*‘personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person;*