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- Comment on Pornhub to restrict access for UK users from February 6 days ago:
Sorry I misspoke, when I said it wouldn’t work I was thinking of the negative knock-on effects that make this approach unworkable, not that it was entirely ineffective. What I’m trying to get at is that there were more effective options that the government for achieving it’s stated goals, only allowing legal adults to access pornography, that didn’t require you to send a picture of your ID or face to every website that happens to have nudes on it. But other, more privacy-friendly approaches wouldn’t make adults hesitant to access porn websites and I think this quality of the current approach was a desirable effect.
Obviously it’s not the case that everything popular with the public is popular with politicians for the same reason, but if something is popular with the public you need quite a good reason to believe that politicians are in favour of it for some other motivation, and with all of that, we just don’t have that good reason.
I think politicians hating the concept of porn and liking the idea of having your real identity linked to your social media accounts are actually pretty good explanations for the government knowingly going with an inferior approach to all this.
Again, I think we’re at an impasse, you’re giving the former government a level charitably I can’t. That’s not to say prospective is unreasonable, I think it’s perfectly reasonable, I just don’t believe it.
- Comment on Pornhub to restrict access for UK users from February 6 days ago:
This is just getting into pure speculation now, neither of us knows for sure. It just lines up too perfectly with the Tories history of anti-porn stances for me to believe that it wasn’t a motivating factor in choosing this approach to others that were pitched to the government (the lobbying from the age verification industry probably helped as well).
- Comment on Pornhub to restrict access for UK users from February 6 days ago:
The government absolutely has access to people with the knowledge to tell them that this approach wouldn’t work, Aylo (the company who owns Pornhub) has been advocating for device based age verification for years (Yes, Aylo are a shitty company, but they’re right about this and have been vocal about it). But sure, a piece of Tory legislation, the same Tories who banned porn with bondage and even women ejaculating in 2014, didn’t choose this approach because it’d discourage adults accessing porn.
- Comment on Pornhub to restrict access for UK users from February 6 days 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.
- Comment on Pornhub to restrict access for UK users from February 6 days 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
- Comment on Trump says UK handing over Chagos Islands sovereignty is act of 'great stupidity' 2 weeks ago:
Russia have proven themselves to be true to their word
Ukraine literally gave up its nuclear arsenal because Russia promised not to invade them in 1994, what are you on about.
- Comment on What Is 'Pathways' And Who Is 'Amelia?' The Controversial Memes About The Viral U.K. Anti-Immigration Goth Girl Explained 2 weeks ago:
I think for what it is, it’s all right. Not good per se, but it’s a 10 minute exercise in a larger lesson.
The tiktok scene is stupid, where if you “do your research” you get radicalised, so the correct option is to “just ignore it”
It is, like maybe it’s just me but who’s idea of doing research is going onto someone’s bio and going to their website? I get some people do this, but the good option should have been looking it up in a reputable news source.
so the correct option is to “just ignore it” and then you find out apparently a charity is doing something the government stopped doing (how is that a good thing???).
Peak neoliberalism.
Then at the end you nearly get arrested if you attend a protest. Not a good message to send.
It’s accurate at least, even if that is depressing.
Also quite sloppy how when you do choose the correct option you literally lose all of your friends. Couldn’t they have had you do research and debunk your friend’s claims?
I’ll defend them on this, they’re trying to say don’t let peer pressure radicalise you. Maybe not the best message that not becoming a racist will leave you lonely and friendless, but I see what they were going for.
I think the best way to actually make someone less racist in the youth is to create an environment where they can befriend immigrants
I completely agree, but that only works if there are actually immigrants around. Hull is 100% white, so this goes into the question of how do you deradicalise people when exposure isn’t an option.
- Comment on What Is 'Pathways' And Who Is 'Amelia?' The Controversial Memes About The Viral U.K. Anti-Immigration Goth Girl Explained 2 weeks ago:
You can play the game here. Honestly, it’s not worse than some of the games about anti-social behaviour I was made to play in school. Some good advice, some bad advice and encourages an incourious trust in the system, fairly standard school stuff. Very funny that in the video at the end that the transition from potential terrorist to law-abiding citizen is a gamer going outside.
- Comment on They removed the like button. What next, they gonna remove videos? It’s just gonna be ads??? 2 weeks ago:
You can hit share, more, Firefox and then hold the image to download the original image, btw.
- Comment on Ofcom investigating Elon Musk’s X after outcry over sexualised AI images 3 weeks ago:
Maybe if we also started to promote eugenics and race science we’d also get the full backing of the American government.
- Comment on Johnathan Ross right now... 3 weeks ago:
Just an fyi, but this is a news comm. Something like this would probably be better suited for !memes@feddit.uk or !okmatewanker@feddit.uk. I’ll keep this up, but just bear it in mind for the future.
- Comment on Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes 3 weeks ago:
LMAO, a and o are on opposite end of the keyboard, how do you even do this?
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 6 comments
- Comment on Music is music 4 weeks ago:
This, but unironically.
(Shout out to Dysmorphia by Body Prison)
- Comment on Among 2025 games with over 10K reviews, Deltarune is the most highly rated 4 weeks ago:
Chapter one also released in 2018 (
78 years ago), so the game doesn’t really feel like it’s from this year. - Comment on Does he think he is The King? 5 weeks ago:
Polanski is doing one as well, but at the same time as the King’s Speech. This is apparently just a feature of British politics now.
- Comment on Firefox dev clarifies that AI features will be 'opt-in' and there will be a 'killswitch' to disable them 1 month ago:
Link to the article as it doesn’t show up on Lemmy: gamingonlinux.com/…/firefox-dev-clarifies-there-w…
- Comment on Waterstones would sell books written by AI, says chain's boss 1 month ago:
Chris is probably just following the comm rule against editorialising titles.
- Comment on Waterstones would sell books written by AI, says chain's boss 1 month ago:
And that relates to a book shop selling LLM-written books how? Digital artists still draw what’s attributed to them, an AI author hasn’t written what’s attributed to them.
- Comment on Waterstones would sell books written by AI, says chain's boss 1 month ago:
What’s your point?
- Britain becomes world’s largest economy to end new oil and gas exploration - Greenpeace UKwww.greenpeace.org.uk ↗Submitted 1 month ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 1 comment
- Submitted 2 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 2 comments
- Comment on Today is the birthday of His Majesty the King 2 months ago:
That’s not worse the Prime Minister Farage, which could be the case come 2029, so I don’t see your point.
- Comment on Today is the birthday of His Majesty the King 2 months ago:
This is an impressive amount of trolling, even for you Flax.
Feddit.UK’s intended audience is His Majesty’s subjects within the United Kingdom
No. The monarch doesn’t own me and I refuse to owe it anything. Hopefully one day the British state will get rid of the embarrassment of being headed by a family of nepo babies.
- Comment on itsfoss promotes hyprland on instagram!? 3 months ago:
They’re a low effort content mill, they’ll post whatever drives traffic to their website.
- Comment on Vegan Politician Zack Polanski Elected New Green Party Leader In Landslide Victory 3 months ago:
They won 84.6% of the vote
I know? I literally voted for the man and reported on him being elected here.
it’s important to examine the characters of influential Individuals
I’m sorry, what? I don’t understand what that has to do with what’s being talked about.
- Comment on Vegan Politician Zack Polanski Elected New Green Party Leader In Landslide Victory 3 months ago:
It’s still interesting to discuss since they’re going to be leader for years
Only one year, unless he’s re-elected. The GPEW hold leadership elections every 2 years, but it was postponed last year so as to not coincide with the general election.
Those 2 constituent countries fly under the Union Jack.
It’s still inaccurate to call them ‘the UK’s Green Party’ as both Scotland and Northern Ireland have their own Green parties which are separate from the GPEW.
- Comment on Vegan Politician Zack Polanski Elected New Green Party Leader In Landslide Victory 3 months ago:
Why report on this now? The article even acknowledges that this happened last month. Also, there is no ‘UK Green Party’, Polanski was elected leader of the Green Party of England and Wales.
- Parents outraged as Meta [Facebook] uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting manwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 4 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 5 comments
