That will be very weird to defend. I can’t wait to hear conservatives’ arguments for them.
Pornography showing strangulation and incest to be banned in UK from early November
Submitted 20 hours ago by Arwu@programming.dev to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/oct/16/pornography-strangulation-incest-ban-uk-november
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Yuccagnocchiyaki@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
DonkeyStar@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Prepare for flatmate porn.
smaximov@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Wh-what are you doing, step-government?!! 😩😫🥵
yuumei@feddit.uk 18 hours ago
Incest porn banned, incest itself not banned. Fucking Labour banning things instead of actually fixing real problems yet again
nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz 16 hours ago
I presume asexual contact with minors is already banned, at least officially? If two consenting adult siblings want a go at each other, more power to them, because they make them royalty.
Armand1@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Well, you cant see porn in the UK without giving ID anyway, so I assume no one actually accesses these sites from the UK anyway (without a VPN), so this will have no effect.
pulsewidth@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
The effect it gives is yet another tool for police to hold over the public and enforce selectively. A wonderful tool for political enemies for instance.
Simon_Shitewood@lemmy.ml 14 hours ago
I cannot emphasise enough how trivial it is to view porn without providing ID or using a VPN in the UK. You can literally type “porn” into your search engine of choice and see anything you want in the images tab.
Snapz@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
In related news, billionaires will continue to rape and dispose of children without meaningful consequence.
HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
In other news, VPN signups are at an all time high.
Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 hours ago
No more hardcore stuff. Damn. Didnt know the puritants would be back again
MrNesser@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Uk goverment once again showing it doesnt know how a VPN works and that the USA is the current mass producer of step-daughter content (you sick fucks)
im_fine_sandy@nord.pub 16 hours ago
Are step family still incest though?
ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 14 hours ago
What are you doing step-strangler?!?
njm1314@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Its really a wonder that these Victorian prudes haven’t caused their own extinction yet.
whatthey@feddit.uk 19 hours ago
Ban under 18s from using the Internet, only allow portalling through a Government filter.
If you wish access to the full internet, you get a government passcode when you turn 18 which can be used to allow you to leave the Government filter and back to normal internets. All of this is controlled by the Government, no 3rd party companies allowed access to your data.
Boom! Internets now back to normal. It solves your problem of Paedo’s, kids looking at porn, suicide, annorexia etc etc…
Just watch as Google, Facebook, X all would be absolutely up in arms claiming it’s banning ‘free speech’ when in fact they’re just watching their ad revenue tank thanks to nearly all of it being about suckering in children.
NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net 19 hours ago
“Sign in with your government ID to prove you are an adult, and enable your camera to prove that you are using the correct ID”
Devial@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
This one of the the dumbest fucking ideas I’ve ever heard.
What next, ban children from reading books and magazines, in case they get a porno one ?
whatthey@feddit.uk 14 hours ago
This one of the the dumbest fucking ideas I’ve ever heard.
Whilst your opinion is subjectively valid, following it up with such extreme’s doesn’t help make the case.
Very few books have been banned out of existence, for starters and secondly, aren’t under 18’s typically ID’d if they pick up an adult magazine, or even a packet of ciggies. Even in a pub now they have that ‘Challenge 25’ - which is ridiculously outlandish. This wouldn’t be much different.
I do believe the damage that social media and algorithms have done to society is astounding. I would effectively call what they do, including advertising, ‘Grooming’.
Read Th4tGuyII’s comment - that would be the most sensible solution for everyone involved but noone wishes to take accountability.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
I grew up in a conservative community and only got a broader world view from monitored internet access. I probably would have been more suicidal without it.
Major child traffickers are adults AND the elites who were doing before the internet.
Porn will always exist and pubescent kids will always seek it out.
Annorexia is more the direct result of Hollywood beauty standards and predatory marketers targeting insecure girls, also existed before the internet.
Making the Government the gatekeepers of the internet will allow them to censor whatever anti Government speech they want the same way public schools everywhere gloss over the crimes of their state.
whatthey@feddit.uk 14 hours ago
I grew up in a conservative community and only got a broader world view from monitored internet access. I probably would have been more suicidal without it.
And I don’t think that would change if a system was implemented. That’s not to say the future and future governments might change things for the worst.
Major child traffickers are adults AND the elites who were doing before the internet. Porn will always exist and pubescent kids will always seek it out. Annorexia is more the direct result of Hollywood beauty standards and predatory marketers targeting insecure girls, also existed before the internet.
While all true, the Internet as it stands puts this directly and en masse into childrens hands without a fuss and worse, grooms children via algorithms down dark paths.
I think Th4tGuyII’s comment in here is the most pragmatic response and something the government should have started out doing.
If there weren’t so many puritanical zealouts out there, especially in positions of power, I think we’d probably be in a better position now.
Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 16 hours ago
Literally just enforce default-on parental controls and self-updating adult-content filtering on every consumer router sold/ISP rented in the UK - and enforce the updating of all existing routers to support that.
Respects people's privacy, gives parents autonomy over their children's internet habits, and is easy to implement because the routers are already in everyone's houses and can be actively updated as they literally have to be connected to the internet to do their job.
Let/make parents take control and whitelist specific users and/or devices to fit their situation...... But no. Instead we give the Government loads of unnecessary surveillance powers so they can kneecap everybody's internet experience to nanny the kids of parents who couldn't be fucked to learn how to use the parental controls they already had access to on basically every device they own to protect their children.
whatthey@feddit.uk 14 hours ago
This is exactly the right answer.
Some parents can’t and won’t be arsed to take any responsibility for their kids at all, whether that’s parenting or teaching - it’s always the fault of the state. When the state acts, it’s an attack on the freedom of speech. It’s a hell of a situation and I don’t envy the governments choices in this matter.
Parental controls as standard on, on a router would absolutely be the easiest, cheapest and most effective way but puritans somehow managed to keep this alive.
Unfortunately, here is where we are and I wish that there was something we could do about it. Every single solution can and will be circumvented so it all seems like a colossal waste of money at this point.
At least if they implemented a child filter, I would hope they ban ads on a large scale and put social media behind the wall completely. It would do the world a massive favour.
3scene@lemmygrad.ml 19 hours ago
I’m sure I’ve seen this black mirror episode.
im_fine_sandy@nord.pub 18 hours ago
This is the dumbest thing.
GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
ITT: Porn addicted weirdos being open about how much of a porn addicted weirdo they are.
cRazi_man@europe.pub 20 hours ago
UK government:
Real problems: I sleep
Moral panic: real shit
fonix232@fedia.io 19 hours ago
Wait, they seriously banned squirting?
ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Literally because it upset PM David Cameron’s mother.
3scene@lemmygrad.ml 19 hours ago
They can piss off! Wait, thats banned too?