Pornhub and three other adult websites face EU child safety investigation
Pornhub and three other adult websites face EU child safety investigation
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Pornhub and three other adult websites face EU child safety investigation
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The same dumb stuff they did in the US.
Kids can access porn sites if unsupervised. So they blamed the porn sites for not properly age-verifying users. The only way to do that would be to force porn sites to check IDs. Porn site visitors want anonymity and are not going to enter their government ID on a porn site. So instead, those sites just block traffic from the states that passed the laws, and all the porn visitors either use a VPN to access the site anyway, or find an even shadier site to visit.
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I'll take care of this as my parental responsibility, thank you very much. Keep these prude motherfuckers away from our free internet
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This is probably a very controversial view, but I think we need "teenage friendly" porn (by which I absolutely do not mean teenage actors! Just intended for viewing by teenagers as well).
If you have porn which shows no exploitation, is always fully consensual, no violence and closer to reality, then I think the harm it does to teenagers will be much less severe.
You don't really need an age verification system (although I'd not be against a truly anonymous one, e.g. the verifying site doesn't know what service you're signing up to, and just provides a token with proof of age), but by default if you're not logged in you get the safer kind of content. And when creating an account it asks your age. If teenagers know they are allowed even when underage, they'd have little incentive to lie.
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when creating an account it asks your age.
Why would anyone create an account when they can just go to some random website on the far side of the world that doesn't follow that system to get whatever they're looking for? Even when people got their pornography from magazines the stereotype was of even supposedly mature adults being weird about it — wearing dark glasses, going to the 7-11 in a part of town where they won't be recognized, and looking all furtive and embarrassed with their copy of Hustler at the till. Vilifying porn and trying to make people register for some kind of age verification service or anything else in order to see it is just going to make people even more secretive about it just like the good old days, and everyone will go to some dodgy unlicensed website hosted by a shell company in the Seychelles instead of the strictly regulated law-abiding Canadian purveyors.
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That's why my proposal doesn't require you to create an account or do any form of age verification. By default you can access porn without logging in or anything. Most common things people watch will be available there. The only restriction is that if you want to watch things that are inappropriate for teenagers, you create an account. Even then it's just a username and password and you click a box that you're over 18. It's so little friction and no privacy invasion, that nobody is going to bother setting up a VPN or finding a dodgy site, that's way more limited than the mainstream ones.
But that tiny bit of friction is enough that unless teenagers are explicitly seeking out content with exploitative themes, they aren't going to bother creating an account, since what they want is available in the open anyway (i.e. fairly vanilla porn)
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The link doesn't work, but it seems only fair that an investigation like this would take place. What's newsworthy about it?
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This is not an investigation of any wrongdoing, it's their attempt to impose "age verification" on the Internet starting with porn.
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The link works for me on firefox mobile
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Blame Canada, blame Canada...
Dammit. Now it's stuck in my head.
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