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UK age verification legislation will lead to a porn habit database (archive)
The country is eager to protect children from porn. It's a worthy goal, mind you, given that research shows that exposing kids to porn can be damaging. Unfortunately, it's a quixotic goal, given that porn is impossible to block. Nevertheless, the UK is now on the brink of creating a database of the country's porn habits.
It also seems poised to hand the age verification piece of that puzzle over to an outfit that Vice refers to as "the shady company that controls the majority of free porn tube sites." That company is called MindGeek. Vice likens it to the Walmart of porn. Britain's leading obscenity lawyer, Myles Jackman, says it supposedly owns about 90% of tube sites on the internet, and it didn't get that way by making friends in the industry.
[...] And now, MindGeek, the WalMart of porn, is getting ready to become even more filthy rich by having maneuvered itself into the position of becoming gatekeeper for consumers of porn, be they adults or kids who don't know how to use a virtual private network (VPN). It's not a done deal quite yet, but MindGeek has had several conversations with officials. It's also currently pushing its own age verification platform, AgeID. If selected, Britons could be dealing with AgeID as the principal gate between themselves and their porn.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by BsAtHome on Thursday November 30 2017, @08:54PM (2 children)
Well, the best thing to do is to get a hold of the cabinet members' IDs and use the exclusively for porn site IDs (*)
It is data noise when you limit the number of IDs used and it would be simple to use one single IDs for all those accesses for everyone. If it is blocked, then you simply take the next and the next and the next. Let the cat and mouse game commence.
(*) that will show, once and for all, that the leaders of the country are fucked.
(Score: 2, Troll) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday November 30 2017, @09:12PM
I absolutely love this idea. Enough that I'm going to start using a VPN endpoint in the UK for all my porn browsing needs.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by dublet on Friday December 01 2017, @01:04PM
Errr.... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-42151148 [bbc.co.uk]
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