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Neil J. McRae wrote: > Where do you get this surveil nonsense from? how is that linked? You are > trying to position your (religious?) ideology with something completely > unrelated, I'm struggling as to why?! > > Parents voted for a government with a manifesto to make it harder for porn to > be made available to children (both parties have the same direction and not > enough people will vote for the other irrelevant parties). They want greater > controls and to make it harder for folks to view this content, in their head > they think that's being responsible much in the same way a 4 year old can't > go into the local Odeon and watch Kill Bill. > > Lets be clear: > > 1: There is no censorship, if you want to view these sites you just have to > prove that you are of age to view them. > 2: There is no mass government surveillance related to this. > > To tackle this government direction is technically simple, infact, I could > have written the code to do when I was eleven. It is a delicate balance between being a neutral bitstream pipe and offering services under the control of customers to imposing filters in the network outside the effective control of customers. Somewhere on that line the ISP turns into a publisher. PS I suspect there are plenty of 11 year olds today who can get around your 11 year old self's code. > For the extreme person, they can by-pass it by various means, but also loads > of sites aren’t under UK jurisdiction in anycase but parents want a solution > to this and many ISP's and other companies offer it. NB There is no independent secure and privacy respectful age verification infrastructure. That leaves a lot of room for unexpected and unwanted consequences. Christian -- Christian de Larrinaga @ FirstHand ------------------------- [email protected]
