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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: 5, Insightful) by edIII on Thursday November 30 2017, @09:40PM
Good luck. I've never logged into any porn site, or paid one, ever. I come from an older generation that had to fight for porn. If you were 10 years old and had a page torn out of a Playboy/Hustler, it was akin to searching for gold and finding it. Paying some place for it? Honestly, going into one of those places just seems weird when you can get everything you need to get off on the Internet, for free, anonymously.
It's too easy these days anyways. I don't have to work for hardcore porn. Just look at an RSS feed from my favorite private tracker, load up what looks interesting, and then watch it after it automatically downloads to my computer.
If I didn't want to pirate, there are literally tons (measured in hard drive weight) of amateur pictures out there. Plenty of exhibitionists rejoiced when they found the Internet, and were very eager to let the rest of us know.
Logging in for porn. How quaint :)
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