Comment by 0x3f
4 hours ago
Porn block ineffective at capturing enough personal data. UK considers how it can build its own great firewall.
4 hours ago
Porn block ineffective at capturing enough personal data. UK considers how it can build its own great firewall.
The UK has had a great firewall for decades - try going to a kiddie porn site or a torrent site and you will be unable to connect.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_blocking_in_the_United_Kin...
Very unimpressive compared to China. Typical, the UK lagging behind on tech.
It’s just DNS though isn’t it. Trivial to bypass, some ISPs don’t even bother.
What amused me is shortly after cutting the UK off from pornhub etc, the UK then tried to ban porn sites from porn with strangling -- https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyk3qzq7k7o
If they had instead gone on a "porn sites that would obey the ID law need to flag themselves via this system and ISPs/phone providers should block them by default and only the account holder can enable it", then they would actually have some leverage over mindgeek (or whoever), and would be able to remove that subset.
But instead people in the UK now either use a vpn to bypass it and thus will also bypass this new law, or go to far dodgier sites which ignore the requirements that the commercial ones follow, driving teenage boys (and adult men) into the arms of sites with incest, bestiality, snuff etc, rather than this generation's equivelent of playboy.
Or they could consciously choose to not bypass the restrictions and to not consume pornography.
If they are seeking out vile material like incest, animal rape and sexualised murder then the blame lays entirely on them, not the government.
I mean what is even your point? Male depravity is unavoidable, and men are mindless ejaculators with no free will to curb abnormal sexual behaviours?
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Did you just equate a social media ban and torrenting to... child pornography?
No, he gave two different examples of websites that is typically blocked in the United Kingdom
Pointing out an analogy between two things, or describing them as two examples of a more general phenomenon, is not “equating” them.
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