IT'S BACK: Porn sites will be legally required to verify users' age

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Porn websites in the UK will be legally required to verify the age of their users under new internet safety laws. The legislation, which is part of the draft Online Safety Bill, aims to give children better protection from explicit material.

The measures, to ensure users are 18 or over, could see people asked to prove they own a credit card or confirm their age via a third-party service. Sites that fail to act could be fined up to 10% of their global turnover.

The Online Safety Bill is expected to be introduced to parliament over the next few months and is designed to protect users from harmful content. Children’s safety groups have long been calling for age verification on porn sites, over fears it is too easy for minors to access publically available material online.

Similar measures were proposed previously but dropped in 2019.

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How many times has this been proposed by now??

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About three I believe?

Proposed, Proposed again->Dropped, Now…

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Didn’t they drop it after it was revealed how much of a security risk this type of validation technology would be?

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I believe so, but considering how badly the government has been fucking over people the last few months (trying to ban protesting, etc.) I think they’ve dropped the pretense of caring about the safety of the people.

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Apparently Reddit and Twitter are included in this clusterfuck of an idea too now.

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They’ve been trying to do this shit since the 90’s when the Pam and Tommy Lee video was all the rage. Bush and Gonzalez reinforced 2257 to crack down on site like rotten.com, again a waste of time. Why on earth when I trust my credit card to a porn company? Just hit a torrent site (with a vpn) but if it really happens, and get a burner from privacy.com, problem solved.

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Looking forwards to the wave of extortions when the first inevitable data leak exposes the personal data of a bunch of porn users. I hope that at least a few people responsible for these kind of ideas are among them.

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