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So do we now look forward to teenagers hanging around newsagents asking people to get them a porn pass along with the beer and fags?

Digit-Al 8y ago
Oh, and wasn't the verification supposed to be free? So now are we supposed to either risk our credentials being stolen or pay to view free website content?
noir_lord 8y ago
Hah. If you want to raise a generation of people capable of hiding their online activity more effectively trying to get between a teenager and smut is basically the way to do it. I'm pretty sure that VPN's and Tor will explode in popularity if they ever manage to enforce this in any way beyond the most silly methods. Also hello escalating arms race.
- andrei_says_ 8y ago
  Maybe someone could also turn them onto voting.
  - Digit-Al 8y ago
    Free porn if you vote?
  - WiseWeasel 8y ago
    And thus the porn star party came to rule Britain for the next hundred years.
- zeth___ 8y ago
  >I'm pretty sure that VPN's and Tor will explode in popularity if they ever manage to enforce this in any way beyond the most silly methods. VPNs do next to nothing and require a credit card. Tor will definitely benefit from this however.
  - crtasm 8y ago
    A credit card, or PayPal, or some cryptocurrency, or the ability to install Opera browser, etc etc. If they sidestep your ISP's block list that's hardly nothing?
  - lb1lf 8y ago
    -A suitable VPN will make it appear that you are in a country with more enlightened censorship laws than the UK. I can hardly see say, SwissVPN adapting the block list for customers whose traffic originates in the UK. The upside of this whole debacle is that the UK government have finally created a strong incentive for the UK population to educate themselves on online privacy and censorship evasion; the EFF should send Theresa May a (snarky!) thank you-note.
jaclaz 8y ago
>So do we now look forward to teenagers hanging around newsagents asking people to get them a porn pass along with the beer and fags? Maybe we could look forward to teenagers coding their own keygen or hammering the portals attempting to brute-force them with random numbers ... ;-)
hiccuphippo 8y ago
No they'll have to make do with the thousands of sites outside the small group of blocked sites.

Digit-Al 8y ago

Oh, and wasn't the verification supposed to be free? So now are we supposed to either risk our credentials being stolen or pay to view free website content?

noir_lord 8y ago

Hah. If you want to raise a generation of people capable of hiding their online activity more effectively trying to get between a teenager and smut is basically the way to do it. I'm pretty sure that VPN's and Tor will explode in popularity if they ever manage to enforce this in any way beyond the most silly methods. Also hello escalating arms race.

andrei_says_ 8y ago
Maybe someone could also turn them onto voting.
- Digit-Al 8y ago
  Free porn if you vote?
- WiseWeasel 8y ago
  And thus the porn star party came to rule Britain for the next hundred years.
zeth___ 8y ago
>I'm pretty sure that VPN's and Tor will explode in popularity if they ever manage to enforce this in any way beyond the most silly methods. VPNs do next to nothing and require a credit card. Tor will definitely benefit from this however.
- crtasm 8y ago
  A credit card, or PayPal, or some cryptocurrency, or the ability to install Opera browser, etc etc. If they sidestep your ISP's block list that's hardly nothing?
- lb1lf 8y ago
  -A suitable VPN will make it appear that you are in a country with more enlightened censorship laws than the UK. I can hardly see say, SwissVPN adapting the block list for customers whose traffic originates in the UK. The upside of this whole debacle is that the UK government have finally created a strong incentive for the UK population to educate themselves on online privacy and censorship evasion; the EFF should send Theresa May a (snarky!) thank you-note.

jaclaz 8y ago

>So do we now look forward to teenagers hanging around newsagents asking people to get them a porn pass along with the beer and fags? Maybe we could look forward to teenagers coding their own keygen or hammering the portals attempting to brute-force them with random numbers ... ;-)

hiccuphippo 8y ago

No they'll have to make do with the thousands of sites outside the small group of blocked sites.