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>So wait, as a UK citizen I can use Pornhub's VPN to circumvent the UK Government's "Porn Filter", a system that's run by..... Pornhub. I had no idea that Porn
by mediocrejoker 8y ago
>So wait, as a UK citizen I can use Pornhub's VPN to circumvent the UK Government's "Porn Filter", a system that's run by..... Pornhub.
I had no idea that PornHub is in charge of filtering adult content for the UK government. Got any more info about this relationship?
- nailer 8y agoDuckduckgo 'Mindgeek age verification UK'
- brettz 8y agoMindgeek has an age verification product to comply with the UK law but by no means is in charge of age verification in the UK, there are several competitors with their own age verification products.
- nailer 8y agohttps://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/porn-age-verification-tool-uk-announcement-pornhub-ageid-adult-content-websites-mindgeek-a8242476.html https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/porn-age-verificati... > AgeID, has been developed by MindGeek, a company that also owns several pornographic websites including Pornhub, RedTube and YouPorn. > AgeID currently uses official documents such as driver's licences and passports to verify a person's age - but submitting a mobile number tied to a contract phone could be another option. > The tool is due to be implemented from April 2018 across all adult sites within the UK in accordance with The Digital Economy Act 2017 that was laid out by the government. It will be regulated by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC).
- brettz 8y agoThe third point is incorrect. It will be implemented on Mindgeek sites and any other sites that wish to use it instead of the competing age verification products.
- merinowool 8y agoSuch site should be illegal. I find it extraordinary that government lets private company record such sensitive information.
- wffurr 8y agoNow tell me how you feel about US credit rating agencies, which were started by former FBI agents after the FBI was restricted from keeping dossiers without cause.
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- LinuxBender 8y agoIt would be so much less overhead to require adult sites and user content driven sites to simply add the RTA adult header and put the responsibility on parents to use parental control software. It looks like this: rating RTA-5042-1996-1400-1577-RTA and it can be sent via http headers, or embeded in web pages. Requiring people to register with PII is just asking for trouble.
- TheCoelacanth 8y agoYeah, but that doesn't allow them to slip in authoritarianism via the backdoor.
- LinuxBender 8y agoGood point.
- stuaxo 8y agoA scheme, where other porn companies can pay them - and if they can't afford it, go out of business.
- monkeynotes 8y agoI don't really understand how a country can ask a website to comply with its laws if the content is not hosted in that country. I guess it could be asked to comply under threat of being blocked in response to non-compliance. It's such a weird area.
- travmatt 8y agoIf you change ‘website’ to ‘business’ and ‘hosted’ to ‘headquartered’ it’s straightforward and just as accurate.
- thomasahle 8y agoYou could also argue it's like a shoe company based in the US, where UK people are ordering from them and asking them to ship it to the UK, while UK government threats to set up import restrictions.
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- Immortalin 8y agoGDPR cough
- bausshf 8y agoGDPR is not issued by a country though, but a commission.
- simooooo 8y agoIt's about the proposed porn pass