Porn sites will need age verification from 2017, Government announces
The Open Right's Group, which campains for privacy and free speech online has said: "While preventing children from seeing pornography is a worthy aim, age verification is fraught with difficulties if infringements of privacy and free expression are to be avoided"
To enforce the measures, the Government suggested a new, separate watchdog be created. The body would be able to alert credit card companies, even if the websites themselves didn?t cooperate.
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I posted this as I find the responses more interesting:
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This bill smacks of a complete lack of understanding of how the internet and its relationship with the law works. How, for instance, do you govern these free adult material sharing sites? I would guess that 99% of them - if not 100% - are hosted and operated outside of the UK, and are not specifically directed at the UK market.
Anyone who wants to see how a similar law works in practice only needs to see Germany's ridiculous "Youth Protection Act" and the chaos that it wreaks on online services.
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Yes, I'm sure all of the sites based outside of the UK will rush to obey this pointless law.
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The thing is, I never see the public think its a good idea.