To tell you that from midnight, you'll have to upload ID to watch porn???!!!

Would you elaborate on this please? Genuinely interested

Then upload your ID and carry on as normal.
Surely the information is data protected.

It’s not just porn. Any NSFW posts on Reddit are banned- I clicked on someone’s profile today who had posted a lot in suicide prevention and that was flagged . I had to do Face ID .

Can’t wait for the data leak where we find out what freaky porn all the MPs are watching. The tabloids are salivating.

Good. About time.

Why? Surely it matters not a jot if you're an adult.

Kids need protection from porn. It's deeply harmful on many many levels

Why do people post stuff like this in AIBU? You want us to vote on whether or not you are being reasonable to tell us something? It makes no sense.

I was listening to a discussion on the issue on Radio 2 - about 60% of children viewing porn do so by accident - it will stop those, which is more the point really.

Why don't you read a book instead.

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This is what porn is doing to young people. I had a VERY wide range of sexual adventures before I settled down in my mid 20s. I never experienced anything like this. This is not what happens in normal pleasurable sex, and we shouldn't allow children and young people to believe that it is.

OP (and every one else who likes PornHub), please read this article. I do not believe you will ever watch online porn again after you do, or if you continue, then you are a monster.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2448580/pornhub-had-roadblock-for-reviewing-potential-child-sexual-content-documents-show/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=WE_Search_Brand-June&gad_source=2&gad_campaignid=22705961921&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI9frG-sLajgMVZVJ_AB30oSaAEAEYASAAEgL4RfD_BwE

It wasn't even hacked. The images of the driving licences were stored in a folder that was open to the Internet. The "hackers" just had to go to the right url. There was no security at all

An abysmal attempt at keeping users data safe.

You don’t need to go in the dark web to ‘access more than porn”. There are at any one time thousands of videos on Porn Hub of children (the youngest was 3) and women being raped, women being suffocated and choked. Porn Hub have been forced to remove 90 % of their content because they could not prove age or consent. But new videos appear daily.

This won’t stop adults and teens using vpns and fake IDs but it might stop 7-12 year old boys accessing it. That’s where the real concern lies. Very young boys are accessing very violent, often crime scene pornographic content and this is shaping them and their future. It has to stop and this is one step in the right direction.

There is a very long way to go. Google Traffickinghub or Laila Mickelwait for more on this. She is the absolute hero behind this.

I just visited a porn site I believe to be "mainstream" to see what happens without a vpn. Turns out the validation is photo.

So I put my "teenager" head on and asked myself where the nearest source of an adult face is. There are two. My wedding photo in the lounge and my graduation photo in the spare room. Basically my treasured memories are now my kids porn access code. 😡

They're going in the loft.

How long till some scammers launch a new free porn site about something mildly embarrassing, accept people’s IDs for proof they’re adults (which they’ll now do willingly because of this law), then just blackmail them instead saying they’ll tell their family or boss. I give it a month or two.

13,000 geolocated images of women, (submitted for account verification) released into the wild:

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/tea-app-safe-space-women-data-hacked-b2796390.html

As with many things governments do, it is to be seen to do something rather than actually tackling a problem.

This will stop practically nobody. It is ridiculously simple to bypass.

Having this block in might lead parents to think that porn is inaccessible online, and give them a false sense of security

Many don't care and cba to learn about how to use blockers etc. they would much prefer everyone to lose their rights and continue to give kids smart phones.

https://www.torproject.org/download/

Easier than a vpn. Will take an average teen approximately 0.3 nanoseconds.

Better to use someone else’s ID I’d have thought.

But it isn’t a complicated and annoying barrier. It’s barely a barrier at all. So kids still have all the access to exactly the same porn they had before the legislation came in.

Honestly, we need to be less worried about the attitude of the OP and more worried about the children of parents who think their children have been made safer by this legislation. Because that is the attitude that is going to be putting children at risk.

There are many parent who either don't have the time or be bothered to check their email and wouldn't care if they did find their kid using their email. They'd probably let them use their credit card as well.

Mum's Phone and credit card will likely be lying around the house.

Obviously a vpn is far easier and far safer but there will be some kid who don't know that. Which is why I think this will impact girls more than boys. The lads will be openly sharing information on how to safely access porn. A curious girl is far less likely to be hearing how to safely access this stuff and a one off search out of curiosity could have a big impact on her life.

There are many parent who either don't have the time or be bothered to check their email and wouldn't care if they did find their kid using their email. They'd probably let them use their credit card as well.

as for online id using AI, the underaged kid would just get their older brother to put their face in front of a camera. The genie is out of the bottle on this one. God alone knows why kids under 18 don't get issued a dumb phone for making contact parents or guardian, they do not need unsupervised access to the internet on a smart phone when they are still minors. It might make them lift their head up from their screen annd see the world around them. Unfashionable view but there you go.

The thing that's bothering me most is it's not just porn. Today I tried to open a post on Reddit, and because the person writing was trans it flagged it up as inappropriate content and asked me to submit a selfie or driving licence

I am in favour of this. I know it won't stop all porn being viewed in the UK, but a reduction is a good thing in my view. Exploitation of women is the main reason why I want less or no porn, also that it normalises certain sexual acts and the non-use of condoms.