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Originally Posted by mrmarlowe
I've just checked the Wank it Now sites:
https://wankitnow.com/
https://upskirtjerk.com/
https://downblousejerk.com/
and now you can't even see any of their sites! Not description of what the site is about. Just a box popping up saying you have to verify your age to view the site. How stupid is that! They are basically just blocking people in the UK. They will lose lots of potential members. Who is going to bother to go through a process of verifying their age just to view the site. They should have a safe for work tour and a detailed explanation of what the site is about. Then if someone wants to join they should be prevented with the age verification box... I've seen a lot of sites do this: basically just blocking anyone from the UK without telling them anything about the site at all!
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What you're suggesting, even if I agree with your stance, is still more risky than requiring people in the UK to undergo age verification to see anything remotely explicit. There is nothing in any law that I've seen that says what is considered explicit content, where the line is drawn, or how site operators can distinguish between SFW or NSFW. That may be a risk you're willing to take, but clearly they aren't.
Blaming the site operator is the wrong course of action. They are not being stupid or losing out on money--no, they are, in theory, preventing huge losses due to lawsuits or sanctions. I don't know them, but that was clearly their risk assessment.
Ultimately, the UK population has decided that this is what they're okay with. Their politicians and government decided this was necessary. If the population disagrees with this, then they need to uniformly push their representatives to change course. That may mean voting in different representation.
It's no different in southern states in the United States. This is what people voted for. We need to stop blaming site operators for trying to stay afloat and risk averse, and start blaming the authorities in charge and the populations for voting those authorities into place.