Brits may be forced to take a selfie and upload it to an adult website before watching porn under new rules to protect children.
Ofcom could force websites to use “facial age estimation” technology to confirm users are age appropriate.
Such technology is seen as more “privacy-friendly” because it would avoid viewers having to upload personal IDs or credit card information.
However, the shame aspect of having to take a selfie in order to watch hardcore pornography is very likely not just to prevent children accessing such material, but adults too.
Porn websites assert that they delete the selfies immediately after confirmation.
Users who look under the age of 25 may have to provide further ID information to access adult websites.
Studies show that a quarter of children in the UK have seen porn by age 11, with the average age children first see it being 13.
The new rules are expected to be enforced in 2025 after a period of review.
“Pornography is too readily accessible to children online, and the new online safety laws are clear that must change,” said Dame Melanie Dawes, Ofcom’s chief executive.
“Regardless of their approach, we expect all services to offer robust protection to children from stumbling across pornography, and also to take care that privacy rights and freedoms for adults to access legal content are safeguarded,” she added.
A workaround for people who want to avoid having to take a selfie might be to check out Ai influencers, which are verging on being pornographic anyway.
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Another brain dead idea, the indians obviously never heard of vpns and proxy servers. The gene pool in government is becoming sub 68 on the iq spectrum.
Of course tech tools would get around such a ban, but if the ban stops children from accessing degenerate disgusting shit, then that is a good thing.
That was the goal of the legislators, they may have went under the philosophy of if it stops a lot of children from accessing degenerate shit, then they can safeguard more than if they did nothing.
The problem exists with parents though, they should not be purchasing smartphones for their children, they would not give them the keys to their car, so why give them the keys to the internet.
The state should not be the parent. But that is modern society for you.
The ‘goal of the legislators’ is to clamp down on your anonymity under the guise of ‘protecting the children’.
None of this has anything to do with protecting children. Firewalls and numerous parental control programs have been ubiquitous for decades now. My ISP, for example, includes anti-virus software (of which firewalls and parental controls are part of) in the service package.
The goal here is not to protect the children. The goal here is to end online anonymity. Numerous globalists have said so: Nikki Haley, David Cameron, I believe there was one EU minister who said you should have to show ID to use the internet.
Pornography is just the battering ram they will use to do it because concerned parent groups and the deeply religious will support it wholeheartedly and freedom advocates will be slow to oppose because of the social embarrassment factor involved. No respectable person wants to admit to wanting to look at porn
Brits may be forced to take a selfie and upload it to an adult website before watching porn under new rules ?
Many brits will no doubt easily get around such a ban with a few simple tech tools. Most of those degenerate porn filth sites are hosted outside the UK and will not bow down to laws enacted in britain. The jews need their shekels lol.
Porn is disgusting filth. Sexual degeneracy.
White women being disrespected to the whole world.
Porn was an invention of the jew. A chosen race of a god whom i do not believe is real.
??? is my god and no jew is chosen of ???.
i’ll upload a pic of Jo Bi