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

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Not a troll post

Here's the link: https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/uk-porn-age-verification-b2795354.html

I heard about this happening in france and thought 'thank fuck its not happening here'

What will I do on those late nights or mid afternoons before pick up?? Just use my imagination, like a prehistoric cave woman???

😡🙈😡

Buy/download an erotic book??

Maybe don’t watch porn. If you want to open your eyes to the bullshit if it watch the Louis Theroux documentaries about it and it will put you off

Time to invest in vpn companies

What classes as porn though? Surely half the internet is tits and ass nowadays, they can't restrict the whole lot. I'm not about to spend the next week testing the theory, but as a teacher who spends bloody ages sifting through shit on primary children's phones, I feel overinvested.

Is this not a good thing? I know they’ll probably find their way around it.. but I like the idea of porn being less accessible to under 18’s..

I think it’s a good thing. Misogny and unrealistic ideas about relationships are very evident in secondary school classrooms. This is due to unfettered porn use.

I dont see the issue adults have ID use it

I dont want to have to use my passport to watch Owen Gray 😭

A fair amount of Reddit has gone too.

I was wondering earlier if this will have an effect on the people who advertise their OF there, the engagement must now plummet? Or maybe people will feel safe to upload photos and documents? I definitely wouldn’t feel safe doing that.

Completely agree

This is a fair point, I understand why you'd be invested

Maybe if porn were tied to your phone contract?

T mobile used to make you provide id to access any websites, even YouTube - thats not a bad idea

You don’t. There are several ways of identifying you’re over 18, including what your email address is linked to. So any half witted teen will simply use their parents email address, although you hope an email will be sent to the email address.

Not interested in porn at all, so this sounds like a very good thing.

I can just see it before long creeping into other areas of 'grown-up' and potentially controversial subject matter and stick another knife into personal privacy and freedoms in a social credit-style system.

Sounds like a good idea to me.

Good.

Not sure why anyone wants to whack off to a trafficked abused woman.

The problem is, it won't work. Setting up a vpn takes a couple of minutes and bypasses the block.

The harm that porn causes teenagers can only be mitigated through education and parenting. Having those difficult conversations about the dangers.

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

Use your minds eye. It's far more fun as you can pick and choose what you see. Alternatively a good erotic novel is fun. If it stops one child or one woman being raped, trafficked or abused then it's been worth it.
If it reduces the profit that the cunts who run these sites make by £10 it's worth it.

I know that there are ways around it but I think the principle of age verification is a good one. I don't think adults should be getting their kicks from watching abused women; it should definitely be inaccessible to under 18s.

I used to think porn was ok if it was consensual. But that's before I had heard women who had escaped from the industry talk about the reality of it.

That's apart from the fact that porn has changed over recent years, with the normalisation of degrading acts. Too many girls now think that strangulation and anal sex are the norm leading to catastrophic health outcomes.

If you used your imagination you would not Support the porn industry.

There are many ways to verify. My email address is 22 years old so its older than most.

Considering that easy, instant access to porn is one of the worst things to come of the Internet Age, I can't say that I mind it being even slightly more restricted. I do wonder if it will creep into other non-pornographic areas of the internet, though.

use a vpn? or just put in your id

FINE WITH ME

I think it's fantastic. Well done, Uk.

Good.

Those in the industry have campaigned hard for this, well done to them. Porn should not be a free for all, particularly for young people and children with developing brains and unhindered access to the internet.