Rule34 blocked the UK entirely rather than comply due to the new law.
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did this or the google ai thing came first?
This says it started in 2019, Google Gemini was 2023. It seems like these big companies pick a name first and then figure out who they'll have to sue after.
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Don't get me wrong, but why are matters of governmental surveillance and control inherently "right-wing" rather than a totalitarian policy not otherwise directly connected to wing politics? Extremists on both sides have a history of creating totalitarian, Big Brother states (which the UK is certainly headed towards).
In the case of Labour, the party's politics these days are over to the right on any measure. Under Starmer they seem to have abandoned their left-wing roots.
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Nowadays, if there's something you like online, remember to plug it into archive.org so it gets added to the wayback machine. You'll still need to remember the URL to access it, but at least it will be archived somewhere
We also desperately need a non-US archive.
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This, right here. It's like Nixon's "war on drugs" that went on, and on, and on... The goal was not drugs, per-se, but to use drugs as a pretense to police people of color.
Drugs still won.
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So of all the fucking things to restrict, why this? Facebook is a hundred times more dangerous than any porn. Ban that shit instead.
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Drugs still won.
Thanks, drugs!
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Or what?
The website would be blocked at the ISP level, I'm not sure what the UK government can do beyond that.
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because these laws aren't about protecting children they're about elimination of access to things the government doesn't like... like queer spaces
Not the government per se, but the powerful lobby groups that want a new world order. Usually linked to religion. Looking at you, Collective Shout.
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I don't understand how this is a controversial opinion, but maybe parents should actually parent their children instead of expecting the Internet or the government to decide what their kids should see for them? Maybe talk to your kid about safe and ethical sex, the dangers of porn addiction, and not to take anything away from pornographic content instead? Maybe we shouldn't be giving children smartphones and tablets with unfettered internet access in the first place instead of spending time with them? Wild concepts I know.
Don't give your children unrestricted acces to a smartphone until they've proven they can use it wisely.
No smartphone before age twelve. Limited use until age 15.
And ffs. Ban smartphones at school.Teach your kids about the internet. It's part of sexual education.
And don't leave it up to private companies to identify me and collect sensitive data on me. Fuck that. If you really want age verification. Deliver the framework.
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The Net is dead. Where's our R.A.B.I.D.S. when we need them?
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because these laws aren't about protecting children they're about elimination of access to things the government doesn't like... like queer spaces
And giving them sweeping ability to track everybody via their identity papers, to see what websites and services they're using, what all their online identities are, etc.
They claim the info isn't being saved or passed on to the government to form a big surveillance database to one day use against people - sure, it's legal to, say, be gay or a socialist or of a particular religion today, but societies and regimes change, and the info they collect on you today may become ammunition against you in 10, 20, 40 years time.
But I don't for a moment believe their obvious lies.
This is nothing but authoritarian police state monitoring and control. It's extremely obvious. Yet, who are we to vote for in the next election? Not Labour, thanks to this (and a few other big reasons perhaps), not the Tories because, well, you've seen what they're like.
It's not impossible for a third party to be elected of course, not as impossible as places like the USA that have a very worryingly solidified two party system, it's just very unlikely.
Knowing the British people and their seeming apathy and poor judgement at scale these days I wouldn't be surprised if they elect the racist bigots at Reform - who ironically would be even more authoritarian and evil than what we have now.
As usual, there's no hope for the future and no possibility of good outcomes.
Humanity is doomed to repeat it's failures for all of history again and again, and we're just along for the miserable ride.
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So of all the fucking things to restrict, why this? Facebook is a hundred times more dangerous than any porn. Ban that shit instead.
because Facebook is an abstract danger, porn is (relatively) well defined
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Don't give your children unrestricted acces to a smartphone until they've proven they can use it wisely.
No smartphone before age twelve. Limited use until age 15.
And ffs. Ban smartphones at school.Teach your kids about the internet. It's part of sexual education.
And don't leave it up to private companies to identify me and collect sensitive data on me. Fuck that. If you really want age verification. Deliver the framework.
completely agree, if kids want a phone at school they can get a dumbphone
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Drugs still won.
And people of color lost.
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And people of color lost.
As is american tradition.
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I don't understand how this is a controversial opinion, but maybe parents should actually parent their children instead of expecting the Internet or the government to decide what their kids should see for them? Maybe talk to your kid about safe and ethical sex, the dangers of porn addiction, and not to take anything away from pornographic content instead? Maybe we shouldn't be giving children smartphones and tablets with unfettered internet access in the first place instead of spending time with them? Wild concepts I know.
This is a conservative idea if conservatives weren't evil lmao. And I agree
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Part of me wants every website to do this. The UK just gets blocked from majority of the internet then people in the UK can get angry and rebel.
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The UK is destroying privacy of chaps! The people who want to watch porn, without being tracked! And now they have to fall under the VPN!
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Don't get me wrong, but why are matters of governmental surveillance and control inherently "right-wing" rather than a totalitarian policy not otherwise directly connected to wing politics? Extremists on both sides have a history of creating totalitarian, Big Brother states (which the UK is certainly headed towards).
It's not so much the control aspect as the anti-porn stance. It also comes in at the same time as a series of anti-trans moves from them.
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I don't understand how this is a controversial opinion, but maybe parents should actually parent their children instead of expecting the Internet or the government to decide what their kids should see for them? Maybe talk to your kid about safe and ethical sex, the dangers of porn addiction, and not to take anything away from pornographic content instead? Maybe we shouldn't be giving children smartphones and tablets with unfettered internet access in the first place instead of spending time with them? Wild concepts I know.
My 5 year old son does have access to an android tablet, but i restrict, selectively, what he can do on it and time limit his usage so it locks down after a few hours. I curate his youtube and frequently spend time watching kids content to decide if i want him watching it. If its good and educational i will share it to his kids youtube account. He cant browse the web, he cant buy things on the play stores. He has to get me to approve any app install and i will always install first and play to ensure it safe.
Its hard work, but its worth it to protect him online. And this has lead to it just being another one of his toys, it doesnt absorb his whole existence. He can take it or leave it. Which i am chuffed about.
When he is older and i can help him understand for himself how to be safe, i will help him however i can. Rather than restric, i will help him understand what the internet is, the good the bad and the ugly.
