Three Ofcom regulators with clipboards spent the weekend making their way around the exhibition floor of an international adult industry conference in Prague, trying to encourage the 1,700 delegates to comply with the UK’s new Online Safety Act.
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“Please comply with our draconian measures to make the internet a safe place for children even tho they’re not even supposed to be on it! Please!”
No. Go fuck yourself. Don’t make people have to put their government ID on a porn site, you puritan piece of shit. Tell parents to be better parents instead of yelling at adults online for not making their ADULT SPACE welcoming to children.
I’ll do one better: Prohibit anyone who’s under 18 from being in the internet. Make every app 18+ and ban anyone who reveals they’re a minor. I’m tired of having to sanitize everything because of 14 year olds with no supervision.
Another Ofcom employee rejected the argument that soaring VPN downloads meant the legislation had failed, arguing that the legislation was primarily aimed at preventing children from accidentally stumbling over pornographic material (rather than preventing those who were deliberating seeking out pornography from finding it).
That is an interesting justification, that I might have actually believed if they had stated that plainly from the beginning, with evidence that it was so necessary.
But I think the reality is that it makes accessing the platform harder for everyone, including adults, and they don’t like that, so naturally people are going to be upset.
Then there’s the question of, if preventing “accidental” access is the point, why should the government be trying to police our children in the first place? That’s the job of the parents. And how do they even know that children are “accidentally” accessing porn sites and that it’s such a big problem that they feel the need to step in? Why is requiring a “click here if you are over 18” button not good enough? You said accidental access, not intentional access.
I think it’s no secret that erosion of rights seems to be the bigger effect, whether that’s a stated goal or not, and people aren’t happy about it.
