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

Photo ID should definitely be used. It would stop a lot of men too because they wouldn't want to do that either

Some people are really invested in rubbishing this, it seems.

Alcohol sales laws don’t stop kids accessing alcohol- yet still we enforce them.
Speed limits don’t stop all speeding.
Laws about violence don’t stop all violence.
The determined will always find a way.
Nothing is foolproof.

However, it seems a small price to pay for making accessing harmful content online slightly harder. Delaying access is a good thing, even if it isn’t foolproof and doesn’t delay as long as we’d like.

And yeah. I’m judging those who have an issue with this really hard.

I mean of course, if the image of the driving licence has someone’s fingers in it, the system apparently accepts it. I’m tired and worded that so badly!

Apparently people are already getting around the Reddit ban by looking up UK driving licence on google images and just using that. Apparently if it has fingers in it, the system will accept it. Just goes to show how easy it’ll be to get round this stuff.

But get a VPN anyway. It’s worth using as internet censorship is just going to get worse. I’m not bothered about porn but I can see the way the tide is turning. The proton vpn app is easy to use.

It's easily bypassed and will give parents the false sense of security. Teenagers will still access it and parents won't think they can

A more useful way of stopping the harm is through education and parenting.

If that education could include other types of online harm such as misinformation and Andrew Tate style misogynistic crap that would be good too

This law will be minimally effective at best

I don't care about porn - as the OP suggests, my imagination can deliver perfectly good and ideally tailored 'porn' to me if needed, and the ethics involved in the production of at least some internet pornography are concerning.

However, I am concerned about the wider implications of this, and the slippery slope factor. First porn - and then what? If it becomes the norm on the internet it could curtail people's freedom to express controversial views and also cut off people who don't have the required ID or who for some reason can't pass whatever AI test assesses their photo or video for age.

I think it's great. If you really want to watch it then simply upload your id.

DH is going go get me sorted with a vpn. I like porn! I understand Albania is a good country to set your location to...

Good. If it were up to me you'd have to go down to a little shop on an out of town industrial estate to buy it.

Well hopefully you understand why this is happening and care about the victims in the 10 million videos Pornhub had to take down because they couldn’t prove the age or consent of the children and women in the videos. You probably need to educate yourself about the reality behind the porn you consume and how the company behind most of the porn sites makes their money. Here’s a very short video to help you.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K16FLIuAHLs

Good.

Use your imagination, it is severely lacking in many individuals these days.

Imagination is free. It's unlimited and unrestricted. It doesn't contribute financially to sexual abuse and rape. It doesn't poison the minds of young children before they've even hit puberty. It doesn't have to gradually get more and more extreme to get you off. It won't dull your physical responses to actual, real life sex.

Try it. You might like it.

Not unenforceable, but unenforced. There are laws like that already. And it is then in the authorities gift not to go after you, unless they choose to, unless they don't like you for some other reason and this gives them the means to punish.

I think it’s a great thing and it’s too little too late. Everything is so over sexualised now; and porn becoming mainstream is not ok. DH stayed at a hotel for work a few nights ago and he said when you turn the tv on, the main menu is ‘films / xxx / xxx gay’. It’s all too much and the stupid accessibility is so so damaging to young people. I suppose you could argue that parents should’ve been much much more aware and up to the challenge but if they have a phone I don’t know how much you can really stop it being in front of them.

Yep, this does feel like the start

But like you, I'm happy to see some restrictions. Although it's really just a bar to entry, apparently an AI generated version will grant access.

How do you propose a blanket ban on porn and anything the Gov thinks isn't suitable for our delicate eyes (like drinking support subs on reddit) would work? It isn't possible unless you cut Britain's internet off from the rest of the world like N. Korea. If porn sites are blocked a VPN would still get around it.

Or you could try making it illegal to look at internet porn like Iceland did in 2009? Guess what, that became an unenforceable law that had zero effect no one cares about.

12 is more than old enough to know what a VPN is, and while they may not have the means to pay for a premium one they could as said above just take a minute to download a browser with a free one built in. Kids that age are more clued in about the internet than the middle-aged politicians who wrote the bill.

And if anyone in Britain doesn't know what a VPN is today trust me everyone will in a month's time as people tell each other. "Hey I can't look at porn anymore do I need to verify my ID?", "nah just download the Brave or TOR browser see", "oh yeah thanks".

This is a joke post I assume.

Are you kidding? Half the home page of Pornhub is some gross step incest stuff. The whole thing is ruining a generation. And young women come off worst when practices like choking becomes mainstream via porn.

I googled Owen Gray and I’m still confused. Is that an actor?

The fact that you and possibly others think porn and sex are synonymous shows just how damaging porn is.
Sex will carry on just fine without unfettered access to porn to children. And everyone else, for that matter.

Tell me @Fragmentedbrain where have you come across this shocking number of women who disapprove of sex? It’s certainly not on here, and I personally have never met a single woman in real life who does.
Do you live in a convent?

You can get around this by not watching porn. HTH.

It’s the least we can do to reduce the harm of porn. Let’s hope it’s just a first step! Try literotica instead.

Good. It's about time

You be never watched porn in my life and this sounds like a brilliant thing to me!

Imagine being distraught over not being able to watch porn. Absolute loser behaviour.

Take a look at yourself, and maybe do the slightest research into how damaging it is for those on the screen as well as those viewing it.