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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: 2) by c0lo on Thursday November 30 2017, @10:49PM (6 children)
Linky please.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Funny) by Bot on Thursday November 30 2017, @11:13PM (5 children)
link to the news item, or to the movies?
(sorry, my AI is practicing rhetorical questions)
Account abandoned.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by c0lo on Thursday November 30 2017, @11:47PM (4 children)
Add this to your training set: linky to the news.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Friday December 01 2017, @09:07AM (3 children)
And the sites. Asking for a friend.
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Friday December 01 2017, @09:27AM (2 children)
Is it mouse pron, or an independent prodiction company?
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 01 2017, @03:26PM (1 child)
It's copyright porn, watch out the clip always gets extended when it is close to ending...
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday December 01 2017, @05:26PM
Well, if it's Disney lying about how long something is, don't be surprised it gets longer.