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DVTimes · 05-18-2016, 05:11 AM

The UK government will require pornographic sites to verify users are over 18 as part of a raft of measures announced in the Queen's Speech.

As part of its Digital Economy Bill, the government promises more protection for children online.

It also pledged more protection for consumers from spam email and nuisance calls, by ensuring direct consent is obtained for direct marketing.

And it reiterated its plans for driverless cars to be tested in the UK.

The Conservative Party pledged in its manifesto to increase protection for children online.
The forthcoming Digital Economy Bill will propose that all sites containing pornographic material must check that users are over 18.

The details of how this will work are not yet clear, and security expert Dr Gilad Rosner, who is a member of the Cabinet Office Privacy and Consumer Advocacy Group, said the government may struggle to implement the plan on free pornographic sites.

Age checks for porn sites in Queen's Speech - BBC News

MiamiBoyz · 05-18-2016, 05:21 AM

DVTimes · 05-18-2016, 05:30 AM

This is a good read: https://www.horizon.ac.uk/yes-the-go...-ever-dare-to/

Yes, the government has the ability to restrict our ability to see porn online. But would it ever dare to?

ruff · 05-18-2016, 05:45 AM

Getting harsh over there.

celandina · 05-18-2016, 06:12 AM

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Originally Posted by ruff

Getting harsh over there.

Sharia law soon to follow....

One of the oldest democracies going to hell...

clickity click · 05-18-2016, 06:43 AM

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Originally Posted by DVTimes

The UK government will require pornographic sites to verify users are over 18

Fucking spammer.

Barry-xlovecam · 05-18-2016, 07:20 AM

bla ... bla ... bla ...

We are incorporated outside of the UK and do no banking or processing in the UK other than the customer's issuing bank funding source. Our webservers are global with none in the UK.

Does the Queen's government plan to bock out our DNS in the UK?

If so I will send my UK customers to domains that the Queens government has no idea I control -- have a nice day.

_Richard_ · 05-18-2016, 08:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam

bla ... bla ... bla ...

We are incorporated outside of the UK and do no banking or processing in the UK other than the customer's issuing bank funding source. Our webservers are global with none in the UK.

Does the Queen's government plan to bock out our DNS in the UK?

If so I will send my UK customers to domains that the Queens government has no idea I control -- have a nice day.

UK has the main cable from europe to US, don't they? and lets say we wanna continue arguing about legality rather than playing ball.. what is stopping anyone from saying data going through a country has to respect the laws.. tax or otherwise. funny slippery slope, this

rogueteens · 05-18-2016, 08:23 AM

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Originally Posted by _Richard_

UK has the main cable from europe to US, don't they? and lets say we wanna continue arguing about legality rather than playing ball.. what is stopping anyone from saying data going through a country has to respect the laws.. tax or otherwise. funny slippery slope, this

we had this argument here over 2257, most people showed it now

Tubevideditor · 05-18-2016, 08:40 AM

The UK may be a small country but is one the biggest spenders in porn online outside the US.

If you sell dating, paysites or cams then I would seriously think about going forward and how you operate as business.
Do you want to risk being blocked and lose a good chunk of income or somehow comply and hope things work out ok?

Traffic brokers and ad sellers will also be hit hard as UK traffic is always sold as 'premium' and one of the most expensive to buy/sell.

Do the tube sites also want to risk the of being blocked and all those ad views going down?

This supposed new law has a much bigger knock-on effect worldwide than it initially seems.
This isn't some third world country potentially blocking sites and I'm guessing several other major countries will be watching closely to see how it unfolds.

It will be interesting to see how Twitter, Tumblr etc react to this with the amount of online porn they host though.

traffic · 05-18-2016, 09:32 AM

It can happen any day now in the US as well. Last year the FCC reclassified the internet as a title ll carrier, they did this in order to pass net neutrality. The telecom lobby is trying to reverse this in appellate court right now, unlikely they will succeed. Tom Wheeler the chairman of the FCC has stated that free porn on the internet is illegal and that adult content will be censored with age verification, as they are trying in the UK.

j3rkules · 05-18-2016, 10:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DVTimes

The UK government will require pornographic sites to verify users are over 18 as part of a raft of measures announced in the Queen's Speech.

As part of its Digital Economy Bill, the government promises more protection for children online.

It also pledged more protection for consumers from spam email and nuisance calls, by ensuring direct consent is obtained for direct marketing.

And it reiterated its plans for driverless cars to be tested in the UK.

The Conservative Party pledged in its manifesto to increase protection for children online.
The forthcoming Digital Economy Bill will propose that all sites containing pornographic material must check that users are over 18.

The details of how this will work are not yet clear, and security expert Dr Gilad Rosner, who is a member of the Cabinet Office Privacy and Consumer Advocacy Group, said the government may struggle to implement the plan on free pornographic sites.

Age checks for porn sites in Queen's Speech - BBC News

The Conservative Party pledged in its manifesto to increase protection for children online.

Ludicrous...

traffic · 05-18-2016, 10:29 AM

In a move that took many Internet experts by surprise, the FCC has declared that free pornography on the Internet violates federal law prohibiting obscene programming. In a statement today from FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, he states that once the FCC took regulatory authority over the Internet as a Title II public utility, it was incumbent on the agency to standardize how it applies existing laws over all forms of transmission in order to protect the children and to avoid potential conflicts of interest.

?Now that the Internet is classified as a public utility, the same as public airwaves, we knew that we had to move to ensure that the same standards of decency we apply to public radio and television were also applied to the public Internet. The Internet is so ubiquitous that with today?s technology, it is trivial for children to view free pornography on their computers or mobile devices. It is not a stretch to say that the Internet reaches more youth today than radio or television ever has. To not prevent our children from obscene content would simply be irresponsible on our part. Additionally it could open the door for relaxing standards on the public airwaves. If we do not apply the same rules to content on the Internet, it is entirely possible that we would be forced to change the way we regulate the public airwaves and that would be completely unacceptable.?

The FCC chairman went on to say that they are not violating free speech because obscene material is not protected by the First Amendment. In addition, because people can pay for pornography on the Internet in much the same way that they can pay for it via cable or satellite TV, they are not infringing on people?s rights to view such content. He explained that the ?paywall? system that exists on cable TV ensures that minors can not legally view pornography since they would not have access to credit cards to pay for it. ?What works well for cable companies can also work well for Internet companies. We aren?t done investigating ways to apply the various models that exist in the cable TV industry to the Internet. For example, we may soon require companies like Netflix to charge extra for unrated shows like ?Orange is the New Black?. A ?pay-per-view? system would ensure that minors could not watch shows that may be potentially indecent, even if their parents have already paid for the content. We feel confident that adults will not mind paying to re-watch an episode knowing they are protecting the youth of the nation from potentially offensive content.?

Also surprising was the method the FCC took to declare free pornography illegal. ?We did not need to take a vote for this procedural action. Having already declared the Internet a public utility equivalent to the public airwaves, we already posses the authority to apply existing standards. In fact, if we did not take this action, we could be viewed as shirking our responsibility to the public. I am simply protecting the trust the public has placed in our agency and the federal government at large.?

Additionally Mr. Wheeler foreshadowed a definition of the controversial ?harmful devices? clause in the FCC ruling on Internet Title II authority. ?Given that the Internet is basically an unlicensed broadcast platform, we are considering how to apply part 15 of the FCC rules that state devices may not cause harmful interference and must accept any interference received. We are working with our partners at the NSA to understand how devices that employ strong encryption could potentially subvert these rules. We are reviewing their suggestions to require technology companies to give government agencies a way to decrypt data as a means to ensure that devices can not be used in harmful ways.?

When asked if the FCC would take further action on regulating content on the Internet, Wheeler stated that nothing within their authority was off the table. ?When we declared our intention to protect Net Neutrality for legal content, we meant it. But that means that we must act to make clear what content is legal or illegal. With the help from our partners at the RIAA and MPAA, pirated music and movies are on our shortlist. With the upcoming elections in 2016, we also need to make sure that content of a political nature is properly scrutinized for compliance.?

Also asked about how the FCC would enforce existing rules over the Internet, the FCC chairman stated that he has already reached out to many of the same people who worked on the Healthcare.gov health insurance marketplace web site. ?They did an amazing job creating that site and we feel confident they can do similar work designing a way to seek out and report obscene content online. We will have massive data centers built to store and catalog all records of reported obscene material. I give you my word that I will personally review all said material to ensure the proper working order of such a system. And to answer your next questions, we can simply increase existing USF fees and expand their application to Internet service providers to fund this system. Technically it?s neither a penalty nor a tax so we?re sure Internet users won?t mind.?

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Tubevideditor Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Sep 2013 Posts: 337	The UK may be a small country but is one the biggest spenders in porn online outside the US. If you sell dating, paysites or cams then I would seriously think about going forward and how you operate as business. Do you want to risk being blocked and lose a good chunk of income or somehow comply and hope things work out ok? Traffic brokers and ad sellers will also be hit hard as UK traffic is always sold as 'premium' and one of the most expensive to buy/sell. Do the tube sites also want to risk the of being blocked and all those ad views going down? This supposed new law has a much bigger knock-on effect worldwide than it initially seems. This isn't some third world country potentially blocking sites and I'm guessing several other major countries will be watching closely to see how it unfolds. It will be interesting to see how Twitter, Tumblr etc react to this with the amount of online porn they host though.

05-18-2016, 09:32 AM	#11
traffic Registered User Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 18	It can happen any day now in the US as well. Last year the FCC reclassified the internet as a title ll carrier, they did this in order to pass net neutrality. The telecom lobby is trying to reverse this in appellate court right now, unlikely they will succeed. Tom Wheeler the chairman of the FCC has stated that free porn on the internet is illegal and that adult content will be censored with age verification, as they are trying in the UK.

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traffic Registered User Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 18	In a move that took many Internet experts by surprise, the FCC has declared that free pornography on the Internet violates federal law prohibiting obscene programming. In a statement today from FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, he states that once the FCC took regulatory authority over the Internet as a Title II public utility, it was incumbent on the agency to standardize how it applies existing laws over all forms of transmission in order to protect the children and to avoid potential conflicts of interest. ?Now that the Internet is classified as a public utility, the same as public airwaves, we knew that we had to move to ensure that the same standards of decency we apply to public radio and television were also applied to the public Internet. The Internet is so ubiquitous that with today?s technology, it is trivial for children to view free pornography on their computers or mobile devices. It is not a stretch to say that the Internet reaches more youth today than radio or television ever has. To not prevent our children from obscene content would simply be irresponsible on our part. Additionally it could open the door for relaxing standards on the public airwaves. If we do not apply the same rules to content on the Internet, it is entirely possible that we would be forced to change the way we regulate the public airwaves and that would be completely unacceptable.? The FCC chairman went on to say that they are not violating free speech because obscene material is not protected by the First Amendment. In addition, because people can pay for pornography on the Internet in much the same way that they can pay for it via cable or satellite TV, they are not infringing on people?s rights to view such content. He explained that the ?paywall? system that exists on cable TV ensures that minors can not legally view pornography since they would not have access to credit cards to pay for it. ?What works well for cable companies can also work well for Internet companies. We aren?t done investigating ways to apply the various models that exist in the cable TV industry to the Internet. For example, we may soon require companies like Netflix to charge extra for unrated shows like ?Orange is the New Black?. A ?pay-per-view? system would ensure that minors could not watch shows that may be potentially indecent, even if their parents have already paid for the content. We feel confident that adults will not mind paying to re-watch an episode knowing they are protecting the youth of the nation from potentially offensive content.? Also surprising was the method the FCC took to declare free pornography illegal. ?We did not need to take a vote for this procedural action. Having already declared the Internet a public utility equivalent to the public airwaves, we already posses the authority to apply existing standards. In fact, if we did not take this action, we could be viewed as shirking our responsibility to the public. I am simply protecting the trust the public has placed in our agency and the federal government at large.? Additionally Mr. Wheeler foreshadowed a definition of the controversial ?harmful devices? clause in the FCC ruling on Internet Title II authority. ?Given that the Internet is basically an unlicensed broadcast platform, we are considering how to apply part 15 of the FCC rules that state devices may not cause harmful interference and must accept any interference received. We are working with our partners at the NSA to understand how devices that employ strong encryption could potentially subvert these rules. We are reviewing their suggestions to require technology companies to give government agencies a way to decrypt data as a means to ensure that devices can not be used in harmful ways.? When asked if the FCC would take further action on regulating content on the Internet, Wheeler stated that nothing within their authority was off the table. ?When we declared our intention to protect Net Neutrality for legal content, we meant it. But that means that we must act to make clear what content is legal or illegal. With the help from our partners at the RIAA and MPAA, pirated music and movies are on our shortlist. With the upcoming elections in 2016, we also need to make sure that content of a political nature is properly scrutinized for compliance.? Also asked about how the FCC would enforce existing rules over the Internet, the FCC chairman stated that he has already reached out to many of the same people who worked on the Healthcare.gov health insurance marketplace web site. ?They did an amazing job creating that site and we feel confident they can do similar work designing a way to seek out and report obscene content online. We will have massive data centers built to store and catalog all records of reported obscene material. I give you my word that I will personally review all said material to ensure the proper working order of such a system. And to answer your next questions, we can simply increase existing USF fees and expand their application to Internet service providers to fund this system. Technically it?s neither a penalty nor a tax so we?re sure Internet users won?t mind.?