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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loops@feddit.uk 23 hours ago
I think pornography should only be seen by adults
NickwithaC@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
loops@feddit.uk 22 hours ago
When I was 14 a shopkeeper sold us single cigs for 50p shg. If you want to break the law there’s a way and usually someone willing to make some money. Doesn’t make smoking at 14 right.
Happy to have the convo with my kids
fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 19 hours 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.
loops@feddit.uk 18 hours ago
Sounds like your paint company has misunderstood the law. Or sells porn on the side
Glad we agree that Pornhub should be age verified though. Because selling porn to kids is abhorrent
Moving forward companies that don’t sell porn can stop over reacting. As can you all
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 3 hours 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.
flamingos@feddit.uk 10 hours ago
Most parents apparently don’t agree with you, or are too lazy to do anything:
From: girlonthenet.com/…/age-verification-whats-the-har…
waz@feddit.uk 9 hours 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.
flamingos@feddit.uk 8 hours 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.
FishFace@piefed.social 1 hour ago
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.
waz@feddit.uk 7 hours 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.