oh sure it'll filter po.rnhub.con but reddit.com/r/nsfw nope. I suspect a horny 16 year old can figure that one out
Also...the whole "type your credit card number into this sketchy looking barebones site" tactic for verification just screams amateur hour
To be fair, I think that's a really high bar. Never underestimate the ingenuity of horny teens.
Well I can't. Most boys get their first exposure to pornography at maybe 10-12? It's natural and doesn't cause any problems. It's crazy that sex is so vilified in our society. And I don't think anyone even understands why.
Perhaps we could launch a billion dollar program to protect children against drop bears [0]. Would that have the same impact? Perhaps. I think teenage boys have similar risk from drop bears as from incredibly violent porn with the women presented as enjoying it (or actually enjoying it).
If we get into this space then just watching prime time tv had violence and must be causing lots of harm.
In the meantime, somebody will make money in VPN services.
What do they gain by banning VPNs considering they already comply with the law by blocking direct access to forbidden websites?
But what is the reasoning behind limiting porn consumption to adults. This seems like an odd restriction that is taking away agency from children and families.
The age limit and type of porn varies significantly among parents that I know. None restrict porn of their 17 year olds. Everyone has a story of blocking their 10 year old.
The sheet cost of checking everyone’s id on a big section of the Internet seems to dwarf any expected benefit. It would be cheaper to hand out free pihole devices for every parent in the UK that just black holes porn and give an 800# for parents to get tech support.
In my country some places passed laws requiring grocery stores to check everyone’s id for alcohol purchases. It adds 10-30 seconds to every grocery trip and every incentive in a while causes a frustration. A friend’s 80 year old mother was denied being able to buy cooking wine because she didn’t have her id. It is so frustrating and an example of how society could improve, even in a small way, lives of citizens.
> But how could it be cheaper? well here is where it starts to get interesting. The second professional could, for example, employ a cheaper way to get your ID sent to them, maybe it gets sent via a third party. Another way to cut costs is advertising, they could get your consent to use your drinking habits for marketing purposes. Now we can just replace “shopkeeper” with “online porn publisher”.
