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New laws that are soon to come into effect will require viewers of online pornography to provide ID in the form of bank details or possibly even photo ID.

AIBU to think that most people in their right minds won’t want to do this?

Not a journalist. Fuck the Daily Mail.

Ridiculous overreach. What adults do behind closed doors without hurting anyone is their business, even if the rest of us think it's gross.

Justar the point is that they are trying to do this to protect children. Currently they can click twice and be watching men strangling women who are crying while they are being penetrated. Do you think this is okay for the developing brain of a child?

People are missing the point that this is about children, if it is more difficult to access it might just put some of them off and also gives a message that it is damaging to them which also might put them off.

It's a misguided ill-informed step towards stronger censorship, a simple risk benefit analysis screams bad idea. Yes there needs to be more restrictions to protect children, but very graphic material is available that won't be age checked and is so so much worse than pornhub and people including kids WILL go to it.

If they want to moderate sites visited I'm not sure why they can't have something like phone networks do but with WiFi providers. On phones you have to confirm with the network you're over 18, I wonder if they couldn't do the same with broadband providers for devices

Justarthe point is that they are trying to do this to protect children. Currently they can click twice and be watching men strangling women who are crying while they are being penetrated. Do you think this is okay for the developing brain of a child?

Of course not, and exposure of children to inappropriate content is a problem, this is just a spectacularly ill-considered way of going about it. For starters, not one teenager will be prevented from accessing porn by this for even a week, it is trivial to bypass.

So then you have the side effects for people who aren't young and on the mark about technology - for some of them this is most or all of their sex life and happens behind closed doors. I don't approve of it, but imagine if we all had to present id to a random third party before doing the things we want to do in the bedroom. I see the potential for side effects we haven't even considered.

It's not about the adults, it's about the children. Many adults have already had their brain ruined due to early access to pornographic material any.

In no way will this prevent teenagers accessing inappropriate content and sharing it around schools. In no way will this prevent children getting onto these websites from pre-verified parents laptops or phones.

We should focus on better parenting and better education to keep children away from this type of content. The amount of very young children with their own smartphones for example is amazingly high.

But porn websites having the personal data of millions of people along with everything they've searched for and watched? That can only end well I'm sure..

The point is that at the moment they don't know it's wrong, when they have to bypass something they do

They already know it's wrong @perhapsiwill because you have to click a button to agree you're over 18, as with lots of websites (e.g. iPlayer, gaming sites, Facebook and Twitter where you have to be 13 etc).

I remember back in the day lying to Neopets and changing my birthday to over 13 or 16 or whatever it was.

Having to use a slightly more sophisticated bypass is not going to stop anyone.

It's a shit idea. It won't work and it will also encourage minors to go to illegal extreme sites, and introduce them to VPNs, TOR etc. Brilliant. The whole idea is a non starter really.

I've read that you'll only need to log into the age-checker once, and from then on when you visit a porn site you'll connect to it automatically. But that can only work if you are using cookies.

So users of in cognito modes better remember to log into all the porn sites they are likely to visit, and keep them open, before they get started. To avoid having to enter their credentials with just one hand mid-session.