The fine includes £450,000 for lack of age checks to prevent children from seeing pornography.
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The fine includes £450,000 for lack of age checks to prevent children from seeing pornography.
Archived version: https://archive.ph/kSmTG
23 Comments
Heinous@feddit.online · 32 pts · 152d
lvxferre@mander.xyz · 22 pts · 152d
Omgboom@lemmy.zip · 15 pts · 152d
Surprised it wasn't a pepe
Sunshine@piefed.ca · 12 pts · 152d
Nice to see civil disobedience of such a stupid law.
I’m tired of hearing all this talk that “every single company will follow age verification.”
Blindly following orders is what leads us off a cliff.
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de · 7 pts · 152d
I hope the UK one day becomes a less anti-freedom country because I would really find it interesting to travel there, but things like this are killing my desire to do so.
John Perry Barlow got it right 30 years ago: https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence
Sunshine@piefed.ca · 3 pts · 152d
The UK has banned books. Full of nanny state vibes.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 152d
Paywall.
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 152d
Sites deploy these based on an uptick in views and where your IP is based. Set your VPN to Iceland, it's not locked at time of writing. Try another location if it is.
hornedfiend@piefed.social · 2 pts · 152d
https://archive.ph/kSmTG
9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 152d
I noticed 4chan is not doing age verification checks, even though they host pornographic content.
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 152d
Kids always learn how to get around those checks. Even back in my day when there were very few sites that had checks, I quickly found my way around them, and for a millennial I'm considered barely computer litterate. I'm certainly no hacker by any means. I won't even pirate shit, cause I don't trust myself not to fuck something up. Like the whole ID thing? Id just grab dads ID if it doesn't require a credit card.
fonix232@fedia.io · 9 pts · 152d
If you're a millenial then practically every single porn site you would've visited "back in your day" would've had, at most, an "are you 18 or older?" popup as age verification...
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 152d
Well that's accurate lol
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 152d
I was more talking about sites that required pay.
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 152d
Still the case today for the sites I visit.
Iconoclast@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 152d
My parents' porn VHS collection didn't ask for my age and neither did my grand-dad's titty magazines hidden in the tractor shed. Internet wasn't even a thing for most people then yet I had already seen plenty of porn before I turned 10.
It clearly did affect me and I don't deny that but I doubt it would've made much of a difference had I have to wait untill I was 18 for the flood gates to open. Nobody would've seen me for months if that was the case.
IronBird@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 152d
so does steam, who the fuck cares.
9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 152d
Steam does age verification though
IronBird@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 152d
...insert a random date that isnt stored, zero actual verification
it's effectively the same as doing nothing
9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 152d
Do you live in a region that requires it by law? Because steam enforces it there, not just a dropdown box.
yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 152d
Yes, and Steam decided to just block all pornographic content instead of complying.
Check steamdb.info's "restricted_countries" field for any such game
org@lemmy.org · 4 pts · 152d
Gullible@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 152d
Give me like 15 seconds and I could find cartel execution via pitbull on that ratfuck of a website. Being exposed to porn is just not on the list of things that matter
zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 152d
This sounds very much like
lyralycan@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 152d
4chan is scum.. But the real criminals* authorised that fine, while not fining the soon-to-be trillionaires.
Yes I know a crime is defined by the law and whatever they decide to enforce, I'm using it to refer to those who exacerbate the already dismal lives of the majority by way of the global economy and poverty, by not taxing the rich and using it constructively.