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Also it will give a tool for selective prosecution of undesirables... If everyone breaks the law then the prosecutor has the ability to arbitrarily imprison an

• notahacker 8y ago
  Well not really, because the law has no provision for prosecuting porn users, it simply provides a basis for a regulator to instruct ISPs to ban certain sites which decline to implement its porn age check, if the relevant body which usually puts age classifications on films can actually be bothered to keep updating the blacklist for every new pornblog. The latter isn't exactly without the potential for dubious consequences (the BBFC has theoretical grounds to ask my ISP to block Reddit) but "selective prosecution of undesirables" isn't one of them (and the BBFC is probably no more likely to use its power to make Reddit "adults only" than it is to do the same for Disney films with a bit of gore)