Comment on Pornhub to restrict access for UK users from February

loops@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• NickwithaC@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I think pornography WILL be seen by anyone who looks for it. If you want kids not to be fucked up by it you’re going to have to get over yourself and have that conversation you’re scared of having with them.

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• fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t think anyone disagrees with that, but the current “upload a video of your face, a copy of your passport and your full name and address to a criminal company based in Cypress” combined with “if you don’t implement it you must block the UK” is one of the most stupid, dangerous and incompetent things I’ve seen for weeks.

  It’s not just porn being blocked. It’s Discord servers, Twitter, image hosters, other hosting websites, media websites, images on websites, international companies’ websites, tech support, equipment manufacturers, fucking paint suppliers.

  It’s a sack of badly thought-out shit by bell-ends. An opt-in from a mobile phone provider or ISP, plus some parental controls was all we needed. Now we can’t order some fucking specialist paint for work, and the pictures in the online safety manual all say “not available in your region”.

  At least we’ll soon be able to buy a pack of 1000 stolen uploaded British passports and photos for £50.

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• flamingos@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Most parents apparently don’t agree with you, or are too lazy to do anything:

  back in 2011 the government worked with ISPs (internet service providers) to come up with a Code of Practice on implementing ‘parental controls’ for all new customers. In 2013 this was adopted by all the major players. So when you (an adult – because you have to be over 18 to do this) register for an internet connection, you are offered adult content filtering by default. You can tweak this, if you like, for example you can decide you’re happy for your family to access social media sites but not pornography. Or if you don’t anticipate any children using your connection, you can opt out of adult filters altogether. Research conducted in 2022, however, found that although 61% of parents were aware of these filters, only 27% actually used them

  From: girlonthenet.com/…/age-verification-whats-the-har…

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  • waz@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I was aware of this and used it exactly as intended, set an age appropriate filter setting, with a watershed to switch to “18” in the evening. When the kids got old enough to stay up past this watershed, I decided to run the age limiters settings 24hrs and instead allow vpn as the only route for me as an adult to access the ‘adult internet’ Paired with parental controls on their devices, worked fine. Included in this was conversations with the children about their devices, what usage time looked like, internet safety and as an aside we had no TVs in bedrooms.
    Guess what? It took a little effort and had to be consistent. I guess most parents are lazy.

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    • flamingos@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s honestly maddening that we’re being subjected to this mass surveillance in the name of preventing children seeing porn when we’ve had much more effective tools for decades now. An OS or ISP level DNS filter takes more work to get around than just finding a more shady website. Microsoft, to its credit, have pretty good parental controls built into their OSs (Windows + Xbox).

      But it’s like I’ve said before, this isn’t about preventing kids seeing porn; it’s about preventing adults seeing porn because the political class finds it icky.

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      • waz@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        The windows/xbox parental controls never worked for me, luckily it would have only been for screen time, so we managed that the old fashioned way. (After countless MS support calls on an OEM prebuilt machine too!) The apple mac parental controls were faultless both MacOS and iOS.

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      • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        But it’s like I’ve said before, this isn’t about preventing kids seeing porn; it’s about preventing adults seeing porn because the political class finds it icky.

        This is bollocks and lazy thinking.

        It is about preventing kids from seeing porn, but the people who support this lack the knowledge and intelligence to understand that it does more harm than good.

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• ohulancutash@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Right, and Pornhub, like all mainstream porn websites, carries an RTA flag that trips all standards compliant content blockers. The black-market sites which the government is pushing traffic to do not.

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