The more I see of this the more I’m convinced it’s actually to stop minors from reading shit like information about Israel’s war crimes or people with gender dysphoria from getting help, and less about porno.
it used to be if a teenager was smart enough to get around parental controls well by god they’re entitled to what they find
now you’re gonna see the UK prosecute children as hacker terrorists for getting a vpn
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I think it’s more that the modern internet has gotten so large, and so much money is exchanged on it, that the internet has become an extension of the real world/real life, and governments want to manage the internet in the same way that they manage physical real life businesses.
Now I’m not that old, and you’re probably older than me I’m guessing. But I remember before the internet became a big deal, if you wanted to buy or rent a M/16 rated or R/18 videogame disc or cartridge, you had to either get your parent to buy it for you, or prove to the clerk at the game store that you were old enough. Same at the video/movie rental place for VHS or DVD, and most rental places wouldn’t have pornographic tapes publicly visible and the big chain store rental places wouldn’t have porn at all, you’d have to go to a smaller place or one that mostly sold explicit content. Even the library had limits for child members, on the books you could take out. In every case here, there’s a real life person (the clerk), working for a physical entity (blockbuster/GameStop/naughty movie store) that can be held responsible if kids start getting their hands on things that they shouldn’t. Very different from clicking the “yes I’m over 18” pop up. I guess the people in power want to go back to that model and regulate the internet in the same way. Is that even possible though?
Information control also plays a part, but that can be done by forcing algorithmic changes on the big social media companies. Changing the way explicit content is handled on the internet as a whole is more than that, it’s about how society views the internet. Society used to view it as a seperate space, apart from the real world in a way. Now with the proliferation of personalised social media, “AI” technologies, and the monetisation on the internet, it’s seen more and more as an extension of the real world.
Well of course the UK is worse than China, China is good and the UK is bad.
Every idiot on reddit saying people will just use a vpn
