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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, Interesting) by Thexalon on Thursday November 30 2017, @10:22PM (6 children)
What research, exactly? I mean, I don't think you'd get the "We're going to show pr0n to 8-year-olds to find out if it's damaging" study approved by any ethics board, and grant funding would probably be hard to come by. And yes, I RTFA, and it doesn't provide anything at all to back up that assertion.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 30 2017, @10:35PM (1 child)
What about all those kids with glasses?
(Score: 2) by stretch611 on Friday December 01 2017, @03:45AM
Mother: Billy... if you keep doing that, you'll go blind.
Billy: Ahw mom, can't I just do it until I need glasses?
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 30 2017, @11:15PM
I didn't check though.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 01 2017, @12:22AM
Well adjusted kids keep quiet, or lie.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 01 2017, @03:06AM
I'm sure some studies exist, but no good ones. It's just the same nonsense from the social 'sciences' that you see in other areas where the researchers admit that their study is completely inconclusive and some portion of the media then misrepresents it as conclusive, or where the researchers are severely biased and pretend that only one conclusion can be drawn from the data. Don't expect much of anything from these fields.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday December 01 2017, @08:53AM
That's sooo irrelevant.
We are speaking about new legislation and an interested company.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford