And so opens the floodgates to even more “free” porn sites with loads of stolen content they simply ask chatgpt to scrape for them on an hour by hour basis.
This is so stupid, the internet cannot be stopped or controlled.
Pornhub to restrict access for UK users from February
Submitted 18 hours ago by shish_mish@lemmy.world to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czr428rxg57o
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Johnnyvibrant@discuss.tchncs.de 16 hours ago
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 18 hours ago
Good.
loops@feddit.uk 17 hours ago
The number of people shilling for pornographers who prey on kids on this site smh
loops@feddit.uk 18 hours ago
I think pornography should only be seen by adults
flamingos@feddit.uk 5 hours 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
waz@feddit.uk 4 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.
NickwithaC@lemmy.world 17 hours 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.
loops@feddit.uk 17 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 14 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 13 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
HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
The internet has many strange rules, one of the unwritten ones is “if little Timmy wants titties, little Timmy is going to find titties”.
No matter how you hard you try, you’re not going to stop this phenomenon. You’ll just push kids to sites that refuse to comply (usually the dodgy ones), or inhabit grey areas (a lot of streamer content counts as softcore), or they’ll get Nd a workaround (current VPN situation), or they’ll just gaslight an AI model into generating porn.
Trying to block access isn’t viable as there is always a work around, what is needed is someone sitting down with a kid to put it into context. That’s not the job of the government, that’s the job of a parent.