Comment by nly
9 days ago
This isn't about illegal sites?
I don't think many people object to blacklisting known sources of child pornography etc.
The fact is you now have to verify your identity (name and photo id) in the UK to access an adult subreddit.
Nobody has ever objected to blocking access to those sites. Most people think the justice system in any developed country is much too lax on people that operate those sites and create its content.
This is a red herring for authoritarian tyrants in the UK to get more control over their population, which is all they're ever looking for.
What kind of photo ID does the UK have? I didn't think there was any kind of national ID if you didn't drive?
We don't have national photo ID, but you do need it in order to vote, rent, buy a house, or have a bank account; several of those processes include mandatory immigration status checks too.
It's a stupid equilibrium.
Passport
provisional license, passport, etc.
You need to be able to shut down websites and apps which do not implement age verification.
Right, anything that doesn't cooperate with the ID verification is defacto illegal in the UK's eyes?
not de facto illegal, but actually, de jure, illegal
So, wikipedia?
Yes... and for clarity, perhaps I should have instead said for the implementation of this law to actually make any moral sense, which is like saying for this chocolate tea pot to be functional on a daily basis, one would have to provision a way of shutting down sites which refuse to participate in the age-verification laws of the UK.
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