The EU, like Texas, Florida, etc wants age verification on porn websites. To “safeguard children” ofcourse.
They pinky promise that the surveillance machine they’re building will never be used for harm!
I play the game called “VPN to the US south and try to find pr0n”
It’s not very difficult. Only the big sites apparently have to comply with the ban. It’s still fucked up and authoritarian tho
This has resulted in many porn sites simply denying users from those locations.
Years ago the .xxx TLD was introduced for adult websites. If we’re going to regulate adult sites. Why not require them to use .xxx for their domains and let parental controls do the rest?
Because that’s not authoritarian enough.
It said the platforms also do not appear to be abiding by requirements for porn sites to use age verification tools to protect children from accessing adult content.
Good, no implementation of this not privacy nightmare.
It comes amid wider scrutiny of online pornography services worldwide, with many regulators looking to crack down on those that do not have age verification in place.
HAHAHA good luck with 1 billion head hydra.
I do not think politicians know what children see on Roblox
A recent EU workgroup on this spend 50 minutes discussing the implications on the “metaverse”.
These people really have no idea how technology works. They just know the marketing of the big few social media companies.
Someone should tell them about IPFS.
Won’t somebody think of the children!!! If we ban Pornhub then all the children will be saved forever!
The Fediverse exists. AFAIK, there is a Lemmy porn instance.
What happens on the Fediverse, stays on the Fediverse.
Do kids go to websites to see porn? Or they are bombard with pornography in social medias?
Considering the disgusting ads I see on youtube all the time, I do think there needs to be more regulation around it to be honest
Why does it seem to me that Britain is becoming a testing ground for bad laws that then turn into EU directives that then member countries must implement?
Good. The effects of porn culture is a serious problem and free sites like pornhub are extra exploitative of the workers who create the content.
I agree with you here, but we both know they have ulterior motives for this
I care less about intention than impact tbh and pornography is banned or restricted in almost every country outside of the west for a reason. This is just the west catching up imo.
