New ID checks kick in next year amid a fierce global debate between child protection groups and privacy warriors.
  • Corngood@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    8 months ago

    I hope this encourages children to learn an important life skill that will help them in numerous ways: Piracy.

      • Deceptichum@kbin.social
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        8 months ago

        I was looking at porn by 11ish, so sure. Imagine making people wait until 18 or 21.

        Do you also have issue with them watching action movies with people dying?

          • pandacoder@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            8 months ago

            I watched Apocalypto for a school paper at age 15 (from a list of options given to me), and honestly I think some softcore porn would have been better. Some rated R stuff is fine for a kid to watch, Apocalypto definitely wasn’t.

            Also that same year I researched and did presentations on Chinese history (was a prehistorical to maybe a couple hundred years ago timeline) and at least in my research I covered things like the foot tying thing (to make feet smaller) and that didn’t prepare me for the scene in Marco Polo (I think on Netflix) where that happened (and I didn’t finish the episode or continue the series because it’s just too fucked up).

            Porn can be fucked up, some porn is definitely NSFL, but there are a lot of things that are so much worse than the average porn site.

            I wish they actually tried to “protect the children” but the politicians are very clearly not.

  • otp@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Porn perusers will soon have to prove their age by uploading an identity document like a passport, registering a credit card, […]

    Ah, mandatory account creation with linked credit card being the most widely available and likely easiest option?

    No wonder the porn sites aren’t fighting this too hard!

    (…or are they?)

    • Flumpkin@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      8 months ago

      My guess is that some companies will greatly benefit from this regulation because they can somewhat monopolize the market. I also wouldn’t be surprised if those were the ones who lobbied for this.

  • beaxingu@kbin.run
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    8 months ago

    its always nice that they want your official id associated with your porn. i just want to see what happens when that database gets hacked.