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Online Pornography Age Checks To Be Mandatory in UK From 15 July (theguardian.com)
The UK's age verification system for online pornography will become mandatory on 15 July, the government has confirmed. From a report: From that date, commercial providers of online pornography will be required to carry out "robust" age verification checks on users, in order to keep children from accessing adult content. Websites that refuse to implement the checks face being blocked by UK internet service providers or having their access to payment services withdrawn.The digital minister, Margot James, welcomed the introduction of the rules, saying: "Adult content is currently far too easy for children to access online."
She added, "The introduction of mandatory age verification is a world first, and we've taken the time to balance privacy concerns with the need to protect children from inappropriate content. We want the UK to be the safest place in the world to be online, and these new laws will help us achieve this." Will Gardner, the chief executive of Childnet, said: "We hope that the introduction of this age verification will help in protecting children, making it harder for young people to accidentally come across online pornography, as well as bringing in the same protections that we use offline to protect children from age-restricted goods or services."
She added, "The introduction of mandatory age verification is a world first, and we've taken the time to balance privacy concerns with the need to protect children from inappropriate content. We want the UK to be the safest place in the world to be online, and these new laws will help us achieve this." Will Gardner, the chief executive of Childnet, said: "We hope that the introduction of this age verification will help in protecting children, making it harder for young people to accidentally come across online pornography, as well as bringing in the same protections that we use offline to protect children from age-restricted goods or services."
How are they going to implement this? With credit card verification?
all the members of parliament? other government officials? law enforcement? clergy?
they do realize that this essentially becomes pornography user tracking? and it WILL come back to bite someone with a significant position within the government, perhaps someone who is at least partially responsible for this new legal requirement in the first place, right in the ass (and not in a good way)
Time to go all in. Just region lock ... everything.
People from RegionX, can only see content from RegionX.
Forever cementing the most powerful companies and organisations, in each RegionX.
No share space. No common Internet. Small, walled, guard-towered, soulless gardens.
For Safety. And think of the Children.
This is the future ... balkanization of ... Everything.
Does anyone believe that this is the end of Regulation?
All traffic tracked.
All users identified.
READING Content and downloading "bad words" criminalised.
All copyright of "authorised" (sanctioned) media protected harshly.
No free speech.
No allowance to create or use your own comment solution (Dissenter).
Wonderful? Well, they are not finished.
"Internet Tax". "Internet Privilege Suspension". "Lifelong Block".
Oh! What a brave new world!
(R)ule in Hell or (S)erve in Heaven [R]?
My answer to any proponent of "hate speech" legislation or "free" healthcare is to go to Europe where there are fewer freedoms and more free things which you are obgligated to pay for in the socialist caste prisons of many of those European states. Feudalism was never entirely extinguished there.
1) You pay more per capita into the health care system compared to Europeans with taxes alone. Then you pay privately on top of that.
2) You probably mean something else than feudalism because the main characteristic of feudalism is that you have an upper class that acquires more wealth from land ownership and a lower class that have no other option than to rent. That is exactly the way the US is going right now.
Stick to the "hate speech" answer and leave the other things out of it.
Except, most European nations doesn't have English as a primary language and "hate speech" doesn't translate very well. More often the laws are along the lines of "you aren't allowed to instigate murder against groups of people". (AKA anti-terrorist laws.)
Hate speech as such is more of an anglophile notion.