UK delays mandatory age verification on porn sites
https://www.engadget.com/2018/03/12/uk-delays-porn-age-verification/
The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), which decides
the age ratings for movies, games and music videos, recently
took on the additional role of porn regulator. The BBFC will
be able to fine sites that don't introduce age checks up to
250,000 (around $346,000) or up to 5 percent of their
turnover. Additionally, it can order ISPs to block sites and
even tell service providers, such as those that process
payments or manage on-site advertising, to stop working with
sites not adhering to the rules. Social networks will also
have a responsibility to mute the voices of non-compliant
peddlers.
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This entire idea is such typical European information-control garbage.
Kids will be the first ones to figure out how to get around this
nonsense, and there's so much free porn on random general-purpose
sites around the Net that the UK would have to block 80% of the
Internet to even block half of that stuff. We know what this is really
all about -- creating lists of porn viewers that the government can
use later against its own citizens. It's these politicians who are the
sick perverts.
--Lauren--
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