UK to BLOCK porn access

[AndyHunter]

Has FO taken any steps regarding this ridiculous ban yet?
Maybe we'll put the date back again? We're quite good at doing that shit... :spin:

Count on Australia being very, very interested in this ban. If it goes well, the US will be in too.

 

[Sexpert007]

Planned Firefox ‘Super Private’ Mode May Get Around UK Porn Block

https://avn.com/business/articles/l...mode-may-get-around-uk-porn-block-833382.html

 

[Bluejaye]

I read that yesterday. Brilliant, I especially liked how Google were going to do the same thing, but didn't.

Google are really trying to pretend they're nice guys right now. Makes you wonder what underhand, illegal shit they're currently up to.

 

[Petra]

Has FO taken any steps regarding this ridiculous ban yet?
Maybe we'll put the date back again? We're quite good at doing that shit... :spin:

No, we're kind of waiting to see.

What I'm hearing is when we get on their radar they'll send us a very polite, very british letter saying please contact them before really doing anything to us.

 

[D-rock]

No, we're kind of waiting to see.

What I'm hearing is when we get on their radar they'll send us a very polite, very british letter saying please contact them before really doing anything to us.

It's stupid they would make foreign companies help them implement their own idiotic law. What would be the consequences of non-compliance considering they might ban this place by default anyhow?

 

[Petra]

It's stupid they would make foreign companies help them implement their own idiotic law. What would be the consequences of non-compliance considering they might ban this place by default anyhow?

As of right now, these are just rumors which I think are being dropped by people/companies who have invested large chunks of change into the whole age verification sector.

1. That google has agreed to delist non-compliant sites from its search. Now, I do think that this will happen for Google.co.uk since Germany has already set a precedent for any site that doesn't follow German age verification laws. If you go look for FreeOnes or Pornhub on google.de you're not finding it. BUT if you are on a german IP and go to google.com, you'll still find all the porn sites as normal. The german govt can only really dictate what happens on the .de TLDs (including taking them away from people).

However, there have been whispers that the UK reached a deal with google to delist any non compliant site across all the country domains including .com. If so, this is huge, huge overreach. This is why I think it's a rumor to scare the majority of little sites into compliance.

2. It's also rumored that the UK has reached agreements with Visa and Mastercard to drop processing for any non-compliant site regardless of where they are in the world. This one is just down right chilling.

Payment processing is the life blood of any site. What most people don't realize unless you do something within the porn industry that requires credit card processing is how much control the banks, Visa and Mastercard has. There are words we can't have on the site down to not being able to have any video where there's red wax, red lipstick, strawberry syrup, etc on someone because it "could" be blood. Everyone puts up with it because if you lose your processor, you can just pack up and go home.

I don't think the UK can really dictate what a company in another country, who doesn't host in the UK and doesn't have a .co.uk domain can do but starting this rumor is a really good way to scare anyone who can't afford a good lawyer into compliance.

Really, all we can do is wait and see what happens. I'm not really convinced the law is going into effect this year since they still don't have a lot of shit in order yet. They only now released the guidelines so this means all the age verification sites who didn't guess right has to go fix their code to make it compliant and anyone who's a developer or works in website development knows that this may mean starting from scratch.

So we'll see!

 

[AndyHunter]

Some more info here: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/age-verification-for-online-pornography-to-begin-in-july

The move is backed by 88% of UK parents with children aged 7-17, who agree there should be robust age-verification controls in place to stop children seeing pornography online

... Total sample size was 6339 adults

Absolute crazy :crying:

 

[earlyriser]

Blocking porn would cause a revolution in some countries lol

 

[Sexpert007]

Hacking, Identity Theft Fears Increase as UK Porn Block Law Nears
https://avn.com/business/articles/l...crease-as-uk-porn-block-law-nears-833692.html

The article makes a good point - there will still be a way to enjoy porn by buying it in the form of DVDs, magazines or paid TV channels. So all is not completely lost.

Although I will be pretty pissed off if one day I won’t be able to access this board. It’s one of probably two or three last traditional message boards that still receives huge amount of new posts. The other two are Halloween Movies and Axis History forum.

Note: I’m not from Britain.

 

[Petra]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnnndddddddddddddddddddd this is why FreeOnes didn't jump on board with the age verification immediately. I'm sure this is a complete shocker and nobody saw this coming...

https://www.xbiz.com/news/244913/u-k-age-verification-rollout-delayed-indefinitely

 

[Supafly]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnnndddddddddddddddddddd this is why FreeOnes didn't jump on board with the age verification immediately. I'm sure this is a complete shocker and nobody saw this coming...

https://www.xbiz.com/news/244913/u-k-age-verification-rollout-delayed-indefinitely

I remember some german text erotica/porn website taking the route of impkementing a system that made visitors put in their Personalausweis data into a web form, to give them the opportunity to check, if the age is right.

This is all so half-baked. And I guess the UK has bigger issues

 

[AndyHunter]

Another 6 months... apparently.
https://www.politicshome.com/news/u...ge-verification-plans-delayed-again-uk-failed
We are becoming a bit of a joke of a country.
Apologies everyone :crying:

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnnndddddddddddddddddddd this is why FreeOnes didn't jump on board with the age verification immediately. I'm sure this is a complete shocker and nobody saw this coming...

https://www.xbiz.com/news/244913/u-k-age-verification-rollout-delayed-indefinitely

 

[~~whimsy~~]

Lol sorry we forgot to mention this whole thing... oopsie

Welp time to go sesrch out more sites to "ban"

 

[Petra]

You know, you guys should just bail and then hope the sea takes the island. I think that just might be best for all involved.

 

[Supafly]

Maybe the House of Hannover should take over the business in the UK, I understand they are pretty high in the Royal succession ranking.

Just get rid of that parliament thingy, House of Lords is a joke, and, well, those peasants got out of line over the years.

 

[Bluejaye]

You know, you guys should just bail and then hope the sea takes the island. I think that just might be best for all involved.

I'm in Scotland, we're all sitting up here waiting for the oceans to rise and flood all of England.

 

[Petra]

I'm in Scotland, we're all sitting up here waiting for the oceans to rise and flood all of England.

And what? Get to higher ground and sip your whisky while watching England drown? That's probably what I'd do, after visiting Ardbeg.

 

[seamanmonkey]

I would move country rather than be forced to give up porn

 

[SuperCJ79]

UK porn block has been scrapped

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-50073102

 

[smithus]

I wonder why the change, maybe because of privacy