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The UK’s controversial porn block will go into effect on July 15th
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Ladies and gentlemen, the uk government summed up. Why bother spending money and doing things that can be fixed, when we can spend money and do things to piss everybody off that can be worked around in mere seconds.
Utter laugh of a law. It won't stop anything, at all, and most sites won't even bother with it.
Utter laugh of a law. It won't stop anything, at all, and most sites won't even bother with it.
What a pointless gesture. It's piss easy to get around and the requirement doesn't apply to a load of places like Reddit where you can view a ton of grot.
Yeah.
When I was a kid a scrap of a stained photo torn from an old Hustler was passed around in the back of the bus with all the reverence and grace normally reserved for the holiest of relics.
Do they still sell newspaper with the page three girls? If so then they have failed.
Honestly this is what happens when you have old out of touch people in power. They become clueless to the world around them.
Guess they're going to have to do another one of those face-sitting protests near parliament this year...
Is this like those television licenses where the cost of the license helps support state-funded broadcasting?
Will buying a porn pass go towards state-funded pornography? Is this through the BBC?
Will buying a porn pass go towards state-funded pornography? Is this through the BBC?
Damn right. Sometimes you'd find a copy of the Daily Sport which would just about suffice, but that moment when you found a dogeared copy of Escort. Joy unconfined. How did it get there! Who knew. I assume as an adult in the nineties it would have been my job to leave it there, but these days when a basic Google image search will throw up GIFs and images beyond my wildest pre teen imaginings. Too easy for them now.
The only times I've been "accidentally" exposed to pornography are on instagram, youtube and twitter.
The keyword here being 'commercial'. This is a totally useless move that just steps closer to full censorship of sites.
Only if you tried to use its original url.
Utterly hate this country, ruled over by a bunch of holier than thou old pricks who probably solicit prostitutes and embezzle tax payers funds and have the audacity to pass shit like this when really they dont give a shit
Meanwhile important subjects like teaching of LGBT education and anti-sexual harassment bills are blocked by singular MP's who dont actually care and just want to block anything remotely progressive
Meanwhile important subjects like teaching of LGBT education and anti-sexual harassment bills are blocked by singular MP's who dont actually care and just want to block anything remotely progressive
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I'm not asking for their smut loicense, I'm asking for their smut permit loicense.
You 'avin a giggle mate?
I'm kind of interested in this. I think the accessibility of porn is an issue that is leading people (particularly young men) towards having ill conceived ideas towards sex, about how to have sex, and have frequently sex should be made available to them. I don't think this will have a substantial impact on porn consumption but if it does, and it's a minor one affecting the accessibility of it only, it might actually end up being healthier for them.
I would not have voted for this but since it's happening I hope it works out.
I would not have voted for this but since it's happening I hope it works out.
Friday night I was sitting outside the local Subway wearing my Civil War suit and eating my dinner when a dude I know came out of the store next to Subway. It was the little brother of a friend of mine, and he saw me and came up and started talking. Dude was pumped to be out of school in a month and a half or so for the summer and was carefree, and had rode his bike up to the strip mall. He said he was going into tenth grade next year. He respected the Civil War suit even though he wasn't familiar with Gary Puckett and the Union GAP.
He seemed like an open and honest young dude and I said, "So what are you up to this evening?"
He said, "Not much....I'll probably ride on home now and look at some porn on the internet, know what I'm sayin'?"
I go "Bwhahahaha!! Have fun, man," and sank my chompers into my Grilled Chicken Sub:
As he started pedaling off....it all hit me.
I yelled, with my mouth full of shredded lettuce and bread and chicken, "WHOA! STOP!!!"
He whirled his bike around and goes, "Huh?"
I sat up straight and swallowed my food and took a drink from my lemonade and cleared my throat, looking at him sternly while wiping bread crumbs off my Civil War suit and adjusting my collar to "lecture mode." He sat there on his bike and goes, "What's up?"
I said, "Listen to me," while wiping my mouth with my Subway napkin. "When I was your age, I had a bike......but I sure as hell didn't have the Internet. The only person who had the Internet when I was 15 was Bill fukken Gates."
I continued, my voice raising, "Imagine not being able to go home, and with the click of a button, download a video clip of a hot chick masturbating. IMAGINE not being able to download a pic of swimsuit models. TRY TO FUKKEN imagine not even having the MTV videos as pornographic as they have become. You know why? Because I guaranDAMNtee it that you wouldn't have resorted to jerking off to a sweaty Christina Aguilera bobbing her ass down in a schoolgirl skirt. No, instead you'd having nothing more than Amy Grant's Baby, Baby video, son, and YOU BETTER FUKKEN BELIEVE that I got my jerk on to that thing. And Mariah Carey? You have no idea, buddy- you think she was mashing her tits together and waving her ass at you while wearing Daisy Dukes in her music videos in the early 90's? FUKK NO! She was fully clothed and swinging on swings. And I jerked to that video, too. Alyssa Milano wasn't going spread eagle in Maxims either dude. She was on 'Who's The Boss' and never exposed more than a fukken pair of hot biceps. That's right- I blasted spooge to biceps...
Her FUKKEN BICEPS!!!!"
Dude was still cracking up but paying attention.
I said, "I can promise you that we had to wait and wait and wait to get a good shot of Kelly fukken Bundy to drop our drawers. You may flip right past Baywatch re-runs now, dude, but back then I was muting the TV in my parents basement to blow a pent-up load to Melrose Place, dude."
At this point dude was cracking up and going, "Holy shit, man, that's too much!"
I stood up and said, "YOU LISTEN TO ME!"
"You take it for granted this Internet porn, but it is a privilege and NOT a right, son."
I continued, "When I was your age we had to fork over money to homeless fukks outside the convenience store and give them enough to buy themselves malt liquor and buy us a damn porn rag, and it took balls just to do that. I once pleaded with the Sam's convenience store clerk to sell me a damn Hustler. I put my pride on the line and made a fukken IDIOT out of myself just to get some material to jerk to!"
"You didn't have the Internet did you..." the kid said, humbled.
I took another chug of lemonade and said, "Boy, one time I was riding my bike down an alley and saw where someone had thrown out a couple boxes of Sports Illustrated magazines. Now if you saw those today you've ride past them. But I thumbed through both boxes and there was no swimsuit issue. Then I scoured through each magazine and came up with some Kristi Yamaguchi pics- that's it. I jerked to Gooch for a week straight, dude! For the next several weeks that summer, I was filled with the hope that some fukker was going to throw out his collection of Penthouses. I pedaled my ass off in 90-degree weather, looking in trashcans and coming up empty. I was LUCKY enough to find NOT a Victoria's Secret catalog, but a J. Crew Women's spring catalog! That was gold, dude. The best I could find was a FUKKEN pic of a chick wearing Spring gear!!"
Not swimsuits," I said. "Hell no. That would have been too easy. The world didn't work that way back then. Just shorts. You had to EARN your jerk. I fukken sneaked into the basement steps of a middle school and jerked off to a J. FUKKEN CREW MAGAZINE!"
A couple women were walking out of Subway with their drinks and overheard me and one of them looked back with anger and said, "That's just wonderful."
I just glared at her with nobility as they walked off.
I told the kid, "My challenge to you is to unplug your computer for THREE WEEKS, and see what kind of material you can come up with. You'll be like Henry David Thoreau at fukken Walden Pond, dude. One with nature and possibly capitalizing off having a hot teacher giving you summer school sessions. Dude, when I was a teenager I had parents drop me off at the movies to watch 'Sliver' even though I told them I was going to see some Billy Crystal flick. I carried in a polyester cloth, wrapped it around my johnson, and rubbed one out while fully clothed to Sharon Stone's bare tits. You think that's sad? You don't know the extremes, dude! The summer when I was 14, I did the SAME THING at the movie 'Cool World' so that I could beat off to a cartoon character with Kim Basinger's voice."
The kid goes, "You beat it to 'Cool World'???????"
Like Jack Nicholson admitting he called for Code Red in A Few Good Men, I pounded my fist on the table and screamed, "YOU'RE DAMN RIGHT I DID!"
I regrouped my temper and said, "The only thing sadder than that is your generation- the generation that takes net porn for granted and fails to recognize the generation before that had to subscribe to Playboys and use the address of an abandoned house, and then drive past said abandoned house every week to see if the FUKKEN porn rag was on the steps. No dice. No dice, son. Nothing but beating off to classy women wearing Spring slacks in a J. Fukken Crew magazine. That or hoping that the hot brunette on Sesame Street was wearing a tight shirt."
I threw the rest of my sandwich away, grabbed my drink and got up to leave. "Take my challenge, son," I said. "Take my challenge."
He goes, "Ok, Giovanni!"
I looked back and stared with nobility and encouragement and one last word of advice:
"You gotta earn your fukken jerk, son. You gotta earn your fukken jerk."
I tossed my drink in the trashcan and walked away.
Sincerely,
Giovanni Peters
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How about.. teaching actual sexual education in school, so they can have an healthy sex life and learn what they need to? Just saying.
It's a very slippery slope but less easy porn probably isn't that bad for people I guess but yes nanny state and all that. Sex education that includes porn usage would be a better idea. Might be kinda pointless, won't stop anyone with some computer know how. Should we expect riots during the summer when people have lost all no porn wanking ability after watching so much porn?
What's their definition of porn though? Like will the stuff on reddit and twitter be affected? How about camsites or site that host archives of cam stuff? Will the hentai sites be affected? People who post adult 3d animation r34 stuff? A lot of those are hosted on dropbox and gfycat so will those sites be affected? Or even people who make adult visual novel style sex games, will those be clamped down? In 2019 there is so much more to "porn" than just mainstream porn sites so I heavily doubt this is going to work. I know for a fact I'm not giving any information or paying anything at all.
Remember - it's only the nanny state overreaching itself if it's helping you. Not when backwards idiots are pushing regressive morality on you in a totally innefective manner because they don't understand how any technology post the loom works.
Imagine being nannied by your government this hard. Something is seriously wrong with your leadership if they're wasting their time on old fashioned censorship.
"Protect the children," what an absolute laugh. All this is going to do is "protect" the sheltered, and piss off everyone else by arbitrarily blocking supposedly objectionable content that they don't object to at all.
"Protect the children," what an absolute laugh. All this is going to do is "protect" the sheltered, and piss off everyone else by arbitrarily blocking supposedly objectionable content that they don't object to at all.
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So I don't get how this is going to work other than "it wont", VPN or not.
Would someone have to input their details every time they fancied a wank? Because that seems utterly ridiculous. Does the porn pass only work on a specific website (not to mention, charging me to have a fucking wank?? gtfoh) or is it a blanket unblock forever, or for 24 hours or something? And how is it legal to charge me to access these sites?
How they gonna stop porn on non porn sites? Reddit and twitter have loads of porn on there. Surely this is just going to create a phenomenal amount of new domains popping up that haven't been blocked by their system yet and cause people to go to more fringe sites with less oversight on what is uploaded there, risking seeing more disturbing stuff (or even illegal) than on major sites.
So in order to access porn sites, I would have to provide ID.... which seems dangerous and is mentioned in the article. I would hope that this would be a one time thing because fuck putting my details all over the internet multiple times every time I wanted to crack one off. Oh and hey, they'll be able to link that to the type of porn I watch? Seems reasonable and not at all concerning that they could tie my actual passport info to whether or not I watch grannies getting their arseholes gaped... if I was into that, which is none of anybodies business other than me so having my official documents tied to that... nah, don't see that being used nefariously, nor do I foresee the inevitable hack/leak of this information into the wild. Sure that wont cause a big scene in future when your wife checks the data and has a problem with some of the stuff you watch. None whatsoever.
If it unblocks it permanently after signing up, then how is this going to stop kids from seeing porn? What adults don't watch internet porn? I'd hazard VERY few to none. So they will inevitably get the pino unblocked and their kids will have all the same access as them anyway. If it unblocks it for 24 hours, then you'd better believe that it'll likely getting unblocked a lot, meaning most days the kids will be able to access porn as usual, even weirder for teenage kids to know that mummy or daddy has been jerking it in the last 24 hours when pornhub is unblocked. If it's a case by case basis.... I dunno man, that sounds orwellian as fuck. "Hey, is that Mindgeek? Yeah, it's Dave. Just open the pipes for 30 mins man, I need to tug meself silly one time".
But yeah, the vast majority of kids these days will know what a VPN is too so it makes it moot anyway. If not, it pushes them to less safe and shadier places on the internet where regulations might not be as strict and content can become more questionable. Sounds real healthy to me.
Would someone have to input their details every time they fancied a wank? Because that seems utterly ridiculous. Does the porn pass only work on a specific website (not to mention, charging me to have a fucking wank?? gtfoh) or is it a blanket unblock forever, or for 24 hours or something? And how is it legal to charge me to access these sites?
How they gonna stop porn on non porn sites? Reddit and twitter have loads of porn on there. Surely this is just going to create a phenomenal amount of new domains popping up that haven't been blocked by their system yet and cause people to go to more fringe sites with less oversight on what is uploaded there, risking seeing more disturbing stuff (or even illegal) than on major sites.
So in order to access porn sites, I would have to provide ID.... which seems dangerous and is mentioned in the article. I would hope that this would be a one time thing because fuck putting my details all over the internet multiple times every time I wanted to crack one off. Oh and hey, they'll be able to link that to the type of porn I watch? Seems reasonable and not at all concerning that they could tie my actual passport info to whether or not I watch grannies getting their arseholes gaped... if I was into that, which is none of anybodies business other than me so having my official documents tied to that... nah, don't see that being used nefariously, nor do I foresee the inevitable hack/leak of this information into the wild. Sure that wont cause a big scene in future when your wife checks the data and has a problem with some of the stuff you watch. None whatsoever.
If it unblocks it permanently after signing up, then how is this going to stop kids from seeing porn? What adults don't watch internet porn? I'd hazard VERY few to none. So they will inevitably get the pino unblocked and their kids will have all the same access as them anyway. If it unblocks it for 24 hours, then you'd better believe that it'll likely getting unblocked a lot, meaning most days the kids will be able to access porn as usual, even weirder for teenage kids to know that mummy or daddy has been jerking it in the last 24 hours when pornhub is unblocked. If it's a case by case basis.... I dunno man, that sounds orwellian as fuck. "Hey, is that Mindgeek? Yeah, it's Dave. Just open the pipes for 30 mins man, I need to tug meself silly one time".
But yeah, the vast majority of kids these days will know what a VPN is too so it makes it moot anyway. If not, it pushes them to less safe and shadier places on the internet where regulations might not be as strict and content can become more questionable. Sounds real healthy to me.
Ah, selling £4.99 porn passes in the shops huh? Guess the real reason for pushing a porn block reveals itself, the government wants to make its cut.
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Having lived for almost 2 decades in a country where purnhub has been banned since 2008 and where even the vagina article on Wikipedia is inaccessible due to including a diagram
This won't work
This won't work
I can't believe this is an actual thing. Seems ridiculously hard to implement effectively. If you forge an ID for it, what are the consequences...? Whose there to verify it? What database is this stored in? Does each site privately store this, or is it in a government database? Is there a verification system for identities...? Seems very difficult to create, maintain, and secure.
Also seems massively ripe for abuse. Ya'll remember the Ashley Madison hack and how that data was used to blackmail people? Can't imagine this would be any different.
I think this is a false choice. I would rather not upload my drivers license / passport to either Google or porn companies. The government already has my driver's license.
haha, no shit?
Reminds me of a story told about the early years of Texas legislature, a religious pastor battered the legislature of Austin, or one of those cities, to pass a bill criminalizing and naming people who picked up sex workers. Every councilman voted for the bill, but they all stood up and passed oral amendments that the bill would not take affect for their district, because they'd all turn up on the rolls.
(this story is from the opening chapter of 'Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson,' by Robert Caro)
Also seems massively ripe for abuse. Ya'll remember the Ashley Madison hack and how that data was used to blackmail people? Can't imagine this would be any different.
I think this is a false choice. I would rather not upload my drivers license / passport to either Google or porn companies. The government already has my driver's license.
haha, no shit?
Reminds me of a story told about the early years of Texas legislature, a religious pastor battered the legislature of Austin, or one of those cities, to pass a bill criminalizing and naming people who picked up sex workers. Every councilman voted for the bill, but they all stood up and passed oral amendments that the bill would not take affect for their district, because they'd all turn up on the rolls.
(this story is from the opening chapter of 'Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson,' by Robert Caro)
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For reddit and twitter, per the BBC article:
"Twitter, Reddit and image-sharing community Imgur, for example, will not be required to administer the scheme because they fall under an exception where more than a third of a site or app's content must be pornographic to qualify.
Likewise, any platform that hosts pornography but does not do so on a commercial basis - meaning it does not charge a fee or make money from adverts or other activity - will not be affected."