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

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youreactinglikeafunmum · 24/07/2025 23:41

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???

😡🙈😡

The UK is launching ‘porn age checks’. This is what will happen

The UK is about to launch some of the strongest checks on pornography in the world.

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/uk-porn-age-verification-b2795354.html

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Swirlythingy2025 · 27/07/2025 11:36

smallglassbottle · 27/07/2025 10:22

Interesting what people are saying about VPNs. I've just tried to use a VPN to access an American site which the UK have banned access to. I can't get onto the site in spite of the VPN. They're not a magic bullet. We're now entering a new censorship phase I would say. I'll try using my phone data instead of the wifi and see if that works.

you may want to try the opera browser activate the vpn then set it to america region

smallglassbottle · 27/07/2025 13:10

Swirlythingy2025 · 27/07/2025 11:36

you may want to try the opera browser activate the vpn then set it to america region

I'll give it a go, thanks.

smallglassbottle · 27/07/2025 13:14

It works! Thank you 😊

Plasticwaste · 27/07/2025 15:04

Velmy · 27/07/2025 04:01

And heroin kills people, costs millions to treat/address, causes generational social issues, petty crime, organised crime, international crime, fuels wars...I could go on for pages.

And porn is a war between the sexes. It causes distrust between men and women, fuels trafficking of women and children, fucks up people's brains and bodies from addiction problems, destroys sexual intimacy, encourages escalating patterns of dangerous sadistic behaviour, causes rampant disrespect and dehumanisation of women, and is the key factor in the explosive rise in misogyny in recent times.

Both destructive.

EmeraldShamrock000 · 27/07/2025 16:50

The human trafficking and brutal sexual assaults used against women has changed porn forever.

I listened to a podcast, a young.lady, porn actress, she was having sexually activity with 2 men, the penis in her throat caused her to pass out, they didn't stop filming, just moved the camera shot to dick 2 until she regained conscious, he was still pounding her throat while she was unconscious.

The girls offered cocaine on set developing an addiction, keeping them trapped, then the women who have no choice, the are property of powerful men, stolen from their home.

It's all very disturbing.

EmeraldShamrock000 · 27/07/2025 16:55

Velmy · 27/07/2025 04:01

And heroin kills people, costs millions to treat/address, causes generational social issues, petty crime, organised crime, international crime, fuels wars...I could go on for pages.

Heroin, in comparison to alcohol kills very few people , and costs a lot less to treat, than alcohol abuse.
Porn addiction is much higher than heroin addiction and is having devastating impacts on society, especially young men.

Boomer55 · 27/07/2025 17:08

youreactinglikeafunmum · 25/07/2025 20:10

🙄🙄 god forbid a woman have a whirl with the vibrator from time to time

You can use a vibe with your imagination and no phoney porn.🙄🤷‍♀️

ZaZathecat · 27/07/2025 17:12

Anything to help stop children from accessing porn on the internet seems like a good idea to me

Twelftytwo · 27/07/2025 17:17

Well I seem to still be able to get onto literotica to get my fix 😁 so all good

smallglassbottle · 27/07/2025 17:52

ZaZathecat · 27/07/2025 17:12

Anything to help stop children from accessing porn on the internet seems like a good idea to me

I agree that children shouldn't ever have access to porn, but the online safety act is going to cause problems for other things being censored and for freedom of speech. It'll affect people discussing problems within the UK and political discussions can be curbed.

GreenIsMyFavoriteColour · 27/07/2025 21:02

....and these are the people we think should be trusted with our personal details. 🤯

Appalonia · 27/07/2025 21:46

This is a good thing, but there's lots of talk of pp already finding a way around it.

TheCheekyCyanHelper · 28/07/2025 08:37

Apparently even sites like Wikipedia are going to be blocked. Pure censorship.

GreenIsMyFavoriteColour · 28/07/2025 08:44

smallglassbottle · 27/07/2025 17:52

I agree that children shouldn't ever have access to porn, but the online safety act is going to cause problems for other things being censored and for freedom of speech. It'll affect people discussing problems within the UK and political discussions can be curbed.

Not sure I agree with that but Ukraine war content on reddit requires a VPN now, which is scarily similar to living in China and Russia. (And will obviously be used by both those regemes to justify their own censorship.)

FrippEnos · 28/07/2025 10:10

Appalonia · 27/07/2025 21:46

This is a good thing, but there's lots of talk of pp already finding a way around it.

Edited

If those circumventing this new form of censorship are people of a legal age then fine.

The problem is that some of those circumventing this are those that it is supposed to stop. So in reality it has done little to nothing and those parents not parenting are still not parenting and now have another layer of protection they can use to say that they are doing nothing wrong.

smallglassbottle · 28/07/2025 11:02

GreenIsMyFavoriteColour · 28/07/2025 08:44

Not sure I agree with that but Ukraine war content on reddit requires a VPN now, which is scarily similar to living in China and Russia. (And will obviously be used by both those regemes to justify their own censorship.)

I'm sorry, but it's already happening. It's censorship.

Endorewitch · 01/08/2025 00:27

Good about time too
PS Plenty of other ways of filling in the time before school pick up!!!!

Swirlythingy2025 · 02/08/2025 16:14

smallglassbottle · 27/07/2025 13:14

It works! Thank you 😊

most excellent

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