Porn Sites Must Age Verify

(31-07-2025 19:01 )Charlemagne Wrote:  I'm not happy with twitter, they are just after profiting from the AV regulation to get everyone to join their paid verifiied scheme.

Paid verification is this for real!? So scummy.

Reddit accepted my passport (it is expired) now they won't - did do a selfie but that wasn't accepted either

(27-07-2025 18:50 )Rammyrascal Wrote:  Very well said. AV won't work as under 18's who this is mainly supposed to protect, are very tech savvy & will find ways round it in seconds along with people who don't want to do the av checks. Really makes my blood boil that AV has been pushed by Conservative & Labour government's as a silver bullet to protect under 18's & other vulnerable people, when it so obviously wont

it's already hitting places it shouldn't as Wikipedia are taking the government to court over the online safety act as Wikipedia could effectively be banned in the uk.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62j2gr8866o

I agree with all that has been said in fact I'd go as far to say that this bears an Orwellian theme about it and a shade of '1984' too.

(31-07-2025 17:00 )Rammyrascal Wrote:  Yep. Also with Peter Kyle, when the AV checks etc came in last weekend, he did the media rounds basically saying everything online is going to be different & safer, especially for children.

Yet this week Peter Kyle has backpedelled, now basically saying it could only be 50% safer than before AV checks etc came in and it's only the first step in making things safer etc online

I wouldn't be surprised if he ends up allowing the immigrants use the internet without being checked for age online while we have to go through all this AV shit. I'd no sooner put a petition up calling for his resignation.

excuse me a moment while I grab some popcorn. This should be fun....

(31-07-2025 19:11 )coolguy4u Wrote:  

(31-07-2025 19:01 )Charlemagne Wrote:  I'm not happy with twitter, they are just after profiting from the AV regulation to get everyone to join their paid verifiied scheme.

Paid verification is this for real!? So scummy.

It is, if you have to AV on X/Twitter you have to join their paid verification scheme

(23-07-2025 07:55 )BarrieBF Wrote:  This is a very respectable forum, so I'm sure that some measures are going to be taken.

Yes the forum now has age verification. Well done for getting that set up.

Looking around at tube sites and cam sites, I'm surprised that they all seem to have fallen in line. I had thought there were going to be rebels, who simply ignored the rerquirement.

The governments regulations seem to be working. But not the AV.

Social media companies have gone overboard and hardly anything is visible in the UK.

Adults aren't using AV because they are worried about data protection breaches.

The only way round the regulations seem to be by using VPN's to flag to sites that they are using the internet from other countries.

Now I always thought that the law was for Child Protection. So I can't understand why the government want to stop VPN's in the UK. To me it allows an adult to continue to view adult material, with little risk of data breaches.

The law has to protect child, but not at the cost of free speech and possible blackmail.

I'd say somewhere along the line some wires have got crossed

(04-08-2025 19:21 )Charlemagne Wrote:  Now I always thought that the law was for Child Protection. So I can't understand why the government want to stop VPN's in the UK. To me it allows an adult to continue to view adult material, with little risk of data breaches.

It's actually quite simple. The government want to stop VPN's being available in the UK to prevent children from using them.

Your data breaches argument doesn't work, because AV systems don't have any databases and therefore can't be breached.