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The privacy invasion has been the whole point from the start. PrOtEcTinG thE ChiLdRen is just the pretext.
Hmmh, sure. That's usually 300% of what this is about. Though they have some "genuine" attempts at filtering the internet over in the UK. From what I gather, ISPs are supposed to filter pornography, copyright violations, ~~gambling, weapons and violence and all sorts of stuff~~ (Edit:??) per default. So there seems to be some wish for a "family safe" internet mixed in with the usual exploiting children to manifest some surveillance dystopia... Which definitely is the major reason why this is pushed all around the globe.
There's really not much filtering here. A couple of torrent sites is pretty much everything. Sure, porn got stuck behind an age check but that's about it. There's no restriction on gambling, weapons etc.
Huh. And how do these age checks work? Is that something you'd call your internet service provider to remove for you? Or is it just the average "Are you over 18? Y/N" popup?
But doesn't sound too different from what we got. My ISP here in Germany has some secret list of forbidden piracy sites. So I switched to a different DNS server and I'm all good. Is that what they do in the UK as well? Sorry I'm lacking a bit in first hand experience. Haven't been there in a while. An when on vacation, I rarely try to watch porn or read about automatic rifles 😅
It wouldn't surprise me if the list was the same tbh.
As for porn, they want you to do the age verification thing on the providers site. Probably involving some third party checking what your face looks like, or something. Most people I know just use a VPN to a more civilised nation.
The children and also teenagers/young people are just a tool to them. Their freedom is dispensable, and they want everyone to think that.
Most of them actually want kids to do that too, and worse. If that weren't true the island wouldn't have been a thing.