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Research indicates younger ids who stumble across porn accidentally can find it shocking and disturbing although the majority of young people surveyed in a 2020 British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) report said this didn't impact them in the long term.

Nobody is visiting porn sites accidentally anymore. This ain't the 90s. They don't pop up in any mainstream search engines by default.

Unless this includes not only porn sites but any site that might potentially host porn (like Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, or really any site with user-uploaded content), this argument is invalid (as well as specious).

What's the ACTUAL anti-porn motivation the right has? It's not protecting children, the right HATE children. How does banning porn make old people richer? Somebody follow the money for me.

As someone not living in Britain, this headline reads like an invitation.

Fuck that, I'm not flying to Britain to watch porn.

what is a “virtual private network”, Alex

I guarantee that's not happening lol

They've been repeatedly bringing up laws like this, then they get scrapped because they're utterly unenforceable. It's been happening ever since Theresa May was still David Cameron's cabinet Home Secretary.

Just headlines meant to appeal to old conservatives obsessed with everybody's sex lives, with the bonus of the government paying millions to their mates' "consultancy firms".

Or you know, VPN.

Passport is an interesting way to spell VPN.

British populace taking a shot at the Crown of dumbest populace in the world.

They misspelled VPN

I can vouch for airvpn if any of you poor saps need to get one. I've been through several and settled on airvpn in the end.

General rule if you see YouTube sponsor ads for a VPN steer the other way. (IE Nord, Surfshark, etc.)

We have no infrastructure to support this ban, just like when ISPs were ordered to block porn by default. Nothing ever happens.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Porn perusers will soon have to prove their age by uploading an identity document like a passport, registering a credit card, presenting their face to AI-powered scanning technology, or using a handful of other methods outlined in draft guidance from the regime’s regulator, Ofcom.

Although initially missing from the U.K.’s next attempt at internet regulation, pressure from children’s charities, age verification providers and vocal parliamentarians persuaded the government to revamp the defunct regime through the Online Safety Act.

Many videos depict graphic and degrading abuse of women, sickening acts of rape and incest, and many underage participants,” Tory MP Miriam Cates, a strong advocate for the legislation, told the House of Commons in September.

Research indicates younger kids who stumble across porn accidentally can find it shocking and disturbing — although the majority of young people surveyed in a 2020 British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) report said this didn’t impact them in the long term.

But the issue is complicated: the BBFC report found that older teens said they watched porn for educational purposes, due to a lack of information about sex in schools, or for gratification, while half of the LGBTQ+ respondents said it had helped them understand and explore their sexual identity.

“The squeamishness associated with pornography has made it nearly impossible to have a mature discussion about the technical feasibility, trade-offs, and effectiveness of age verification mandates,” says Matthew Lesh, director of public policy and communications at the free-market think tank.

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