UK porn sites that have publicly agreed to age checks from Friday July 25, 2025

[arista]

[ PornHub
BoyfriendTV
Cam4
FrolicMe
inxxx
Jerkmate
LiveHDCams
MyDirtyHobby
RedTube
Streamate
Stripchat
Tube8
YouPorn]


(This is not an exhaustive list
of all the sites that have to comply;
others are not happy
to be named at this stage)


Ofcom can impose fines and
in very serious cases apply for a court order
to prevent the site or app from
being available.]


[According to Oliver Griffiths,
Ofcom's group director of online safety,
making life safer online 'is one of
the defining challenges of our era'.
'Society has long protected youngsters from
products that aren't suitable for them,
from alcohol to smoking or gambling,' he said.

'But for too long children have been
only a click away from harmful pornography online.

'Now, change is happening.
These age checks will bring pornography
into line with how we treat adult services
in the real world, without compromising access
and privacy for over-18s.'

In terms of how the age checks would work,
Ofcom has already listed seven methods
that porn providers could use.
Ultimately, which one they opt for is their
decision, not Ofcom's, but their chosen
method must be ‘highly effective’
at correctly determining if a user is under 18.

Ofcom's seven suggested strategies
are photo-ID matching, facial age estimation,
mobile-network operator (MNO) age checks,
credit card checks, email-based age estimation,
digital identity services and open banking.

Open banking works by accessing the
information a bank has on record regarding
a user's age, while photo-ID matching involves
uploading a verified photo-ID document,
like a PDF of a passport or driving licence.]


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14849353/Britains-porn-crackdown-Ofcom-list-adult-sites-18.html

[Mystic Mock]

The problem with this, is if children are able to access an older family member's details just so they can get on the Porn Site.

[arista]

The problem with this, is if children are able to access an older family member's details just so they can get on the Porn Site.


Yes, one of the many future problems.

[BBXX]

I think the idea is to make it as awkward/difficult as possible that minors won't bother going to the hassle and therefore it'll cut down the amount of underage people consuming porn, which is only a good thing.

I believe there are three ways to verify age: through producing a photo ID, running a credit card check or doing a 'face scan' which estimates someone's age. The first and the last will be highly effective in blocking youngsters from accessing porn, and I believe the majority of teenagers won't want to input their parents credit card details for fear of them being charged or notified, so I do think this will be effective.

I'm all for it - porn is extremely damaging - it creates super unrealistic expectations around what real sex is like, and particularly for guys, it can feed into really ugly attitudes towards how to treat women particularly in the bedroom.

I guess I have a little concern it feels bit...authoritarian/big brother-y, however I think it's worth it from a safety perspective and the benefits of reducing porn consumption from a young age overrides the worry of it being a bit of a power overreach.

There is also the very legitimate issue of it pushing people to access sites who are flouting the rules that are riddled with virus' etc... and potentially hosting worse material than on sites such as PornHub - I think they need to really police these sites if they want this new bill to be safe and effective, but I'm not sure how possible that is?

[arista]

Yes BBXX
great points,
I think some more changes could also be added
Also Monday would be a good start day
not a Friday?

[BBXX]

Yeah let people finish the week off with a bit of porn and start afresh on Monday, like people do either diets :laugh: I agree!

Personally it won't effect me because I don't look at those sites, but there is also a major privacy risk around those adults who do provide their details - providing a photo ID that is then leaked and connected to sites to do with porn is a very risky threat. I think the intention is good, but it's quite a flawed idea the more I think about it...

[Vicky.]

Can't believe this wasn't already the case tbh

[Livia]

Are you over 18 yes/no.

Makes me feel my kids are being protected.

[BBXX]

Can't believe this wasn't already the case tbh

I does feel wild that porn is so easily accessible to minors, especially when you compare it to age verification around alcohol for example - even if you buy a bottle of something online the delivery driver has to see a form of ID before handing it over.

[bots]

it would take 30 seconds to bypass the check

[MTVN]

I think the idea is to make it as awkward/difficult as possible that minors won't bother going to the hassle and therefore it'll cut down the amount of underage people consuming porn, which is only a good thing.

I believe there are three ways to verify age: through producing a photo ID, running a credit card check or doing a 'face scan' which estimates someone's age. The first and the last will be highly effective in blocking youngsters from accessing porn, and I believe the majority of teenagers won't want to input their parents credit card details for fear of them being charged or notified, so I do think this will be effective.

I'm all for it - porn is extremely damaging - it creates super unrealistic expectations around what real sex is like, and particularly for guys, it can feed into really ugly attitudes towards how to treat women particularly in the bedroom.

I guess I have a little concern it feels bit...authoritarian/big brother-y, however I think it's worth it from a safety perspective and the benefits of reducing porn consumption from a young age overrides the worry of it being a bit of a power overreach.

There is also the very legitimate issue of it pushing people to access sites who are flouting the rules that are riddled with virus' etc... and potentially hosting worse material than on sites such as PornHub - I think they need to really police these sites if they want this new bill to be safe and effective, but I'm not sure how possible that is?

Agreed the normalisation of porn has been very damaging imo so the more hoops that people have to jump through to access it the better

[Cherie]

Boys in particular are accessing this stuff at such a young age that they think this is what happens in normal relationships, its criminal that its taken so long to just think about making it more inaccessible

[Barry.]

Boys in particular are accessing this stuff at such a young age that they think this is what happens in normal relationships, its criminal that its taken so long to just think about making it more inaccessible

I’m so sure they tried the age thing years ago too, maybe I’m wrong but I remember sites saying you needed ID to access it

[bots]

i don't quite see what this is meant to achieve when impressionable kids are subjected to all sorts of crap in their normal daily lives that has zero age verification. No point worrying about all of that though, it's the porn that's bad

[Zizu]

i don't quite see what this is meant to achieve when impressionable kids are subjected to all sorts of crap in their normal daily lives that has zero age verification. No point worrying about all of that though, it's the porn that's bad


Yeah there are apparently sites showing how to make bombs , commit suicide etc etc

Supposedly most youngsters even use a different internet - I don’t even know what it’s called !!


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[Barry.]

Yeah there are apparently sites showing how to make bombs , commit suicide etc etc

Supposedly most youngsters even use a different internet - I don’t even know what it’s called !!


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VPN I think you mean. I don’t know what they can do to keep kids safe on the net, maybe a ban on internet for under 15s? But how would that work

[Zizu]

VPN I think you mean. I don’t know what they can do to keep kids safe on the net, maybe a ban on internet for under 15s? But how would that work


No its called the grey web or dark web or something similar


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[Barry.]

No its called the grey web or dark web or something similar


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Oh yes the dark web. I thought that was for like guns, pedo files etc, I wouldn’t call porn dark web stuff

[Zizu]

Oh yes the dark web. I thought that was for like guns, pedo files etc, I wouldn’t call porn dark web stuff


I’d be amazed if they had all those things ( and worse ) on the dark web … but not pornography


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[bots]

I’d be amazed if they had all those things ( and worse ) on the dark web … but not pornography


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they have porn on the dark web, it's just a lot more sinister and no age verification

[Barry.]

they have porn on the dark web, it's just a lot more sinister and no age verification

Why is it called the dark web? Also how do people find it? It’s scary

[bots]

Why is it called the dark web? Also how do people find it? It’s scary

i've never been on it, the concept of actively searching out something that is inherently evil doesn't appeal to me. I believe there are special browsers to access the dark web. It's called the dark web because everything is basically illegal thats on it

[Zizu]

i've never been on it, the concept of actively searching out something that is inherently evil doesn't appeal to me. I believe there are special browsers to access the dark web. It's called the dark web because everything is basically illegal thats on it


Well if all the kids / teenagers know how to access the dark web and it’s worse than the internet then it makes this registry thing pointless ..


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[bots]

Well if all the kids / teenagers know how to access the dark web and it’s worse than the internet then it makes this registry thing pointless ..


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that's my basic point. Restricting access to things that are relatively harmless just points kids at things that are a lot more dangerous that aren't subject to rules

[MTVN]

Why is it called the dark web? Also how do people find it? It’s scary

Nice try officer :suspect:

[Maru]

They have this in Texas. I'm not really sure what age verification means in the context of our laws because I don't care that much about porn, but some sites got melty about it over "Free speech" and turned off the ability for people here to access it. I'm not sure what they thought they were accomplishing...

[Maru]

Well if all the kids / teenagers know how to access the dark web and it’s worse than the internet then it makes this registry thing pointless ..

The user would need very specific browsers that can access those sites. It's not an attractive way to use the internet by any means so it naturally scares off the vast majority of people. Most users simply won't bother. Some major sites detect those browsers as being bot-like in behavior because of how they function or the networks are simply blocked, so they will get an error message instead of being able to access them. They're usually peer-to-peer connected (think using someone else's connection to connect through to the internet) and have so much functionality hobbled out from within so that those connected users are not discernible individually to the other side. So the performance is going to be total dogsh**. They may actually think it's broken before being able to access anything because it's so crippled. In other words, you wouldn't want to watch anything video through it casually :laugh: It would be like using Opera Mini at points to connect to Youtube. You could theoretically watch hours of niche cat videos on it, sure, if you were worried what your ISP might think of you. But it's not what it's made for. You would use a proper way like a VPN instead.

There are legitimate reasons for people to broadcast on the dark web. For example, they're a journalist, investigative reporter or a blogger writing sensitive materials, they may want to use a specialized means to hide their tracks so would be familiar with those tools and offering alternative ways to get information out that also protect their users/readers. Hence those users who are reading your information are afraid of detection (for obvious safety reasons), so they would prefer to use the hidden links rather than the "official" pathways. For example people who live in places that aren't friendly towards free exchange of information and whose access to the web is severely limited. Law enforcement uses the same or similar tools to do investigative work, either in normal capacity or internally, so those tools are well known under that context.

I suspect the two major reasons people are motivated to use dark web-accessible browsers are 1) piracy and 2) privacy. There's also the worse elements that don't need mentioning, but I feel like they would've gotten into that before finding our the other method because they would've had to have come across a way to get to it.. either way, there are humanitarian uses for making available ways to browse anonymously. So it isn't all about accessing special websites. For hosting websites, it's a last resort for a website because it obviously limits the audience if most people don't know where to find it. But it can offer a backup method if they know their site is likely to be targeted by the authorities (thus an avenue to exchange critical information is lost)

What is the dark web? How to use Tor to access the dark web
https://www.wired.com/story/what-is-the-dark-web-how-to-access/

The dark web is infamous as a dangerous place, where drugs are bought and hitmen hired, but it can be a safe way to browse the internet if your privacy is serious concern. And thanks to the Tor Browser, it's easy to do.

Indeed, Facebook, The New York Times and now even the CIA have sites on the dark web, hosting "onion" versions of their pages that can be accessed via the Tor browser. The spy agency is hoping to securely and anonymously collect tips, though its entire website, including job listings, are available on the onion service.

Speaking of the not dark web, if you want to know how nosy sites truly are, use an anonymous browser for a little bit and watch your entire experience degrade. It does make you think more safety-oriented, but also services have a fit if you don't simply hand over enough information or access to them. It can feel downright criminal... so I can understand people who are being very critical about what gets left out there online. Still most of those people use Brave, I think, because it's a lot more user-friendly.

[Mystic Mock]

I would be careful about using the Dark Web personally.

[bots]

The real issue is that this is all taking action after the horse has bolted. There are billions of porn vids and pictures already in circulation. They will just be uploaded to other sites that don't have age verification, and it's impossible to block access because they will just reappear somewhere else

I'm surely not the only one that sees this legislation as a complete farce

[Barry.]

Nice try officer :suspect:


:joker:

[bots]

Why is it called the dark web? Also how do people find it? It’s scary

if you want to know more about the dark web you should watch Mr Robot

[Zizu]

if you want to know more about the dark web you should watch Mr Robot


I loved the first series but then it seemed to go off in the second season


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[Beso]

No way I'm taking a face recognition picture pre wank.


Seriously though, how pathet9x is masturbating with a mouse in your hand, all sweaty and grubby.

[Livia]

No way I'm taking a face recognition picture pre wank.



I think you should take it mid-wank. And post it here for our amusement.

[joeysteele]

The real issue is that this is all taking action after the horse has bolted. There are billions of porn vids and pictures already in circulation. They will just be uploaded to other sites that don't have age verification, and it's impossible to block access because they will just reappear somewhere else

I'm surely not the only one that sees this legislation as a complete farce

In my view, your last line sums this issue and action up perfectly.

I'm actually left a lot of the time confused however on just what on earth are Parents doing??
How can THEY not know or SUPERVISE what their children are doing and looking at and searching for.
I'm stunned at the lack of Parent/children relationships.
There's children going to school now not operating proper hygiene of simply cleaning their teeth.
Children are now going to school with inadequate or no breakfast.
Children are left with technology ON THEIR OWN it seems for long periods every day.
With no reference back to their parents and their parents NOT having a clue what they are looking at or engaging with on their devices.
However once something goes really bad or seriously wrong and even losses of life.
Then the Parents are up in arms at anyone or anything else as to how or why it happens.

I honestly think another policy needed is to actually have an education centre, to actually EDUCATE parents on full responsible parenting.
I know what my parents were like as to me, ensuring I did right and what I was doing.

[Maru]

I would be careful about using the Dark Web personally.

There's nothing to really be as careful about because it's not like there's a Dark Web version of Google (it's all self-report/specific crawl jobs). :laugh: And even if there were, it'd still probably manage to be far less evil than the legitimate Google. Jokes aside... They'd have to find a link somewhere on the "good internet" in most cases to get to anything problematic. I'd be more weary of hanging around random Discords... there's a reason admin err on the side of caution and will nuke entire servers (including permanuking accounts using them) rather than try to figure out who "the good ones" actually are.

You can use an anonymous browser though if you need to self-report your recent stint in Antifa to the police and to the CIA. I personally advocate this use case. Please use this function judiciously to report your terrorismings :love:

[Maru]

The impact on the porn industry in their own words when Supreme Court approved age verification laws...

The Scam of Age Verification
https://pornbiz.com/post/17/the_scam_of_age_verification

...

What will happen?

We’ll have to implement AV wherever it is legally mandated. It’s not like we have a choice. Legal challenges were our only option — but now, even the courts have been swept up in the hysteria.

The largest established adult sites, such as ours, will be immediately destroyed.

We know that only about 10% of the user base will remain after AV is implemented — and the 10% who stay (thanks, by the way) are very costly to verify.

So much so that we expect to operate at a financial loss.

[Added July 4th] Here are real numbers that are the results of currently running AV tests :
July 4th : verification rate : 10,5% (89,5% of users gone)
July 3th : verification rate : 9,7% (91,3% of users gone)
July 2nd : verification rate even lower due to technical issues.
However, keep in mind that the drop of users is (maybe significantly) higher than shown, because the ones who simply don't return (because they know there is an AV wall), are not counted.

...

Supreme Court upholds Texas porn law that caused Pornhub to leave the state
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/06/supreme-court-upholds-texas-porn-law-that-caused-pornhub-to-leave-the-state/

[Vicky.]

Boohoo :laugh:

[Barry.]

Well it happened. Twitter/X seems so different now

[Zizu]

Well it happened. Twitter/X seems so different now


In what way ?


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[Maru]

In what way ?


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I want to know also lol

[Barry.]

In what way ?


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No more nude posts. In the uk at least.

[Barry.]

I want to know also lol

My posts I’ve seen in my following are tame now lol

[Maru]

My posts I’ve seen in my following are tame now lol

I do not dislike this. I'm almost jealous.

That might explain something. Maybe DM is in deep mourning because just this morning they had a whole post full of (censored) nudes of stars being "thirst traps". Look at all these people that bare it all!. Barry, I don't know what a "thirst trap" is. I don't know that I want to know what a "thirst trap" is.

[Zizu]

No more nude posts. In the uk at least.


I haven’t noticed any difference at all


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[Barry.]

I do not dislike this. I'm almost jealous.

That might explain something. Maybe DM is in deep mourning because just this morning they had a whole post full of (censored) nudes of stars being "thirst traps". Look at all these people that bare it all!. Barry, I don't know what a "thirst trap" is. I don't know that I want to know what a "thirst trap" is.

:joker: Athirst trap could be tame too, like showing leg or a shirtless picture, it’s when you have things saying wataa etc that’s when it’s nudity (I don’t even know what wataa is)

[Liam-]

This new law is actually just a joke, an authoritarian power grab at people’s legal privacy, a government deciding what is appropriate viewing for adults and blocking everything they don’t like, all under the guise of ‘protecting children’ which it most definitely does not

[Maru]

:joker: Athirst trap could be tame too, like showing leg or a shirtless picture, it’s when you have things saying wataa etc that’s when it’s nudity (I don’t even know what wataa is)

"Water", maybe? Would make sense if they feel thirsty.

[Liam-]

And it’s not even just pornography they’re attacking, they’re trying to censor Wikipedia ffs, twitter blocked all videos of protests on the site, it’s an outright attack on freedom and expression and it should be immediately repealed it’s not everybody else’s responsibility to parent the children of parents that can’t be bothered to control their children’s internet access

[MTVN]

This did make me chuckle

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[Cherie]

This did make me chuckle

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:joker:

My son was having a right moan about this earlier, I just wanted a nice walk in the forest with the dog and he spent the whole hour regaling me how bad a policy it is...he made some decent points tbf

[Liam-]

Dating and hookup apps I definitely understand having things in place to protect everyone involved from kids that shouldn’t be on there, but making fully grown adults jump through hoops that erode personal privacy to access things we’re legally allowed to choose to see is frankly, ridiculous

[Barry.]

Dating and hookup apps I definitely understand having things in place to protect everyone involved from kids that shouldn’t be on there, but making fully grown adults jump through hoops that erode personal privacy to access things we’re legally allowed to choose to see is frankly, ridiculous

It feels like a step back kind of

[Redway]

I haven’t noticed any difference at all


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Of course, you’d always be the first to know. Wouldn’t you?

[Maru]

:joker:

My son was having a right moan about this earlier, I just wanted a nice walk in the forest with the dog and he spent the whole hour regaling me how bad a policy it is...he made some decent points tbf

My brain is registering this scene as a period classic... discussing the modern changes, aka age regulations and the viewing of porn (impacting all important male rights) while taking a casual stroll around the lake with top hats... I could see that being a very civil debate somehow without getting too OOT.

[Maru]

This did make me chuckle

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Now to be fair, sending every Westerner's watch history to the enemy in the Middle East would be comparable to a nuke.

When their leaders are filmed raging at the West saying they wished us total destruction, I feel like they'd just been casually scrolling through X and saw a whole lot of something they wanted to unsee and that was their immediate reaction.

[Mystic Mock]

Dating and hookup apps I definitely understand having things in place to protect everyone involved from kids that shouldn’t be on there, but making fully grown adults jump through hoops that erode personal privacy to access things we’re legally allowed to choose to see is frankly, ridiculous

This.

[Cherie]

My brain is registering this scene as a period classic... discussing the modern changes, aka age regulations and the viewing of porn (impacting all important male rights) while taking a casual stroll around the lake with top hats... I could see that being a very civil debate somehow without getting too OOT.

:joker:

[Mystic Mock]

There's nothing to really be as careful about because it's not like there's a Dark Web version of Google (it's all self-report/specific crawl jobs). :laugh: And even if there were, it'd still probably manage to be far less evil than the legitimate Google. Jokes aside... They'd have to find a link somewhere on the "good internet" in most cases to get to anything problematic. I'd be more weary of hanging around random Discords... there's a reason admin err on the side of caution and will nuke entire servers (including permanuking accounts using them) rather than try to figure out who "the good ones" actually are.

You can use an anonymous browser though if you need to self-report your recent stint in Antifa to the police and to the CIA. I personally advocate this use case. Please use this function judiciously to report your terrorismings :love:

I'm Antifa and proud.:dance::joker:

Seriously though I do agree with you about Discord.

I hear so many bad stories about that place, I get that not every Discord server is like that tbf, but it's clear that the site has a lot of problems in terms of keeping itself clean from the Dark Web.

[Mystic Mock]

This new law is actually just a joke, an authoritarian power grab at people’s legal privacy, a government deciding what is appropriate viewing for adults and blocking everything they don’t like, all under the guise of ‘protecting children’ which it most definitely does not

I personally think that we have to watch out for what the Government targets next.

Will it be violent Entertainment Media? Who knows.

Either way, it doesn't look good on Starmer.

[bots]

I personally think that we have to watch out for what the Government targets next.

Will it be violent Entertainment Media? Who knows.

Either way, it doesn't look good on Starmer.

this was all started by the tories and it is nothing new. It is completely innefective though because you can just vpn from a country that doesnt enforce age checks

[Ammi]

This did make me chuckle

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…yep, I think for many years now we’ve all felt totally safe and uncompromising in the careful hands of our governments both past and present…

[Mystic Mock]

this was all started by the tories and it is nothing new. It is completely innefective though because you can just vpn from a country that doesnt enforce age checks

Of course this idea was started by the Tories.:rolleyes:

Why do I ever try to cut them some slack?:joker:

[Oliver_W]

Of course this idea was started by the Tories.:rolleyes:

Why do I ever try to cut them some slack?:joker:

Both major parties are basically the Uni-Party, there's no point in giving either the benefit of the doubt on behalf of the other.

[Mystic Mock]

Both major parties are basically the Uni-Party, there's no point in giving either the benefit of the doubt on behalf of the other.

Fair point Oliver.

[Zizu]

Of course, you’d always be the first to know. Wouldn’t you?


Well clearly not …. Einstein


I use X to keep abreast of sporting events and news … as I have said many times, many times .. hence no changes to my layout

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[thesheriff443]

First post in this thread
Kids as young as 8 have been found to be sending naked pictures of themselves
The internet and access to it , adults allowing kids access and smart phones
Clothes being made for kids in adult form parents allowing kids to wear These clothes
Parents not actually being parents and guiding kids , kids don’t look like kids anymore by this I’m developing faster
These are all factors in my opinion

[arista]

First post in this thread
Kids as young as 8 have been found to be sending naked pictures of themselves
The internet and access to it , adults allowing kids access and smart phones
Clothes being made for kids in adult form parents allowing kids to wear These clothes
Parents not actually being parents and guiding kids , kids don’t look like kids anymore by this I’m developing faster
These are all factors in my opinion


Yes, that is a separate problem.

[Barry.]

First post in this thread
Kids as young as 8 have been found to be sending naked pictures of themselves
The internet and access to it , adults allowing kids access and smart phones
Clothes being made for kids in adult form parents allowing kids to wear These clothes
Parents not actually being parents and guiding kids , kids don’t look like kids anymore by this I’m developing faster
These are all factors in my opinion

Of course that’s bad but parents shouldn’t be giveing them smart phones to take the pictures on or they need to see what’s on the phone. They should be giving phones with just phone numbers and address books in them

[bots]

the problem is not with the technology, it's society itself that has the problem. You can never take things that were freely available in society even to kids and expect that to resolve the underlying issue.

[Beso]

It must be harder to get into pornhub, than it is the UK these days.

[Maru]

First post in this thread
Kids as young as 8 have been found to be sending naked pictures of themselves
The internet and access to it , adults allowing kids access and smart phones
Clothes being made for kids in adult form parents allowing kids to wear These clothes
Parents not actually being parents and guiding kids , kids don’t look like kids anymore by this I’m developing faster
These are all factors in my opinion

Parents won't let kids play freely outside of their homes but they'll give them unfettered access to the internet. Never understood that.

[bots]

Virtual private network (VPN) apps have become the most downloaded on Apple's App Store in the UK after sites such as PornHub, Reddit and X began requiring age verification of users on Friday.

VPNs can disguise your location online - allowing you to use the internet as though you are in another country.

It means that people are likely using them to bypass requirements of the Online Safety Act, which mandated platforms with certain adult content to start checking the age of users.

As of Monday morning, half of the top ten free apps in Apple's app download charts in the UK appeared to be for VPN services.

And one app maker told the BBC it had seen an 1,800% spike in downloads.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn72ydj70g5o
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Told ya :laugh:

[Maru]

It must be harder to get into pornhub, than it is the UK these days.

They blocked it completely here and it was widely reported which is how many learned about the law. They just chose not to comply and closed off access.

[Maru]

Virtual private network (VPN) apps have become the most downloaded on Apple's App Store in the UK after sites such as PornHub, Reddit and X began requiring age verification of users on Friday.

VPNs can disguise your location online - allowing you to use the internet as though you are in another country.

It means that people are likely using them to bypass requirements of the Online Safety Act, which mandated platforms with certain adult content to start checking the age of users.

As of Monday morning, half of the top ten free apps in Apple's app download charts in the UK appeared to be for VPN services.

And one app maker told the BBC it had seen an 1,800% spike in downloads.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn72ydj70g5o
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Told ya :laugh:

That's how I watch BB and they're relatively cheap to keep up.

[thesheriff443]

Parents won't let kids play freely outside of their homes but they'll give them unfettered access to the internet. Never understood that.

Some of it is to know where your children are when they are out with friends
You can call them and tell them to come home or they can call and ask to go somewhere else, so it has a safety aspect to it

But there are not many things in life that don’t have a plus side and a negative side

[Maru]

Some of it is to know where your children are when they are out with friends
You can call them and tell them to come home or they can call and ask to go somewhere else, so it has a safety aspect to it

But there are not many things in life that don’t have a plus side and a negative side

That's how it was when we were growing up but most of the families had someone home so help was always a house or two away, but very rarely needed. We don't really hear of parents monitoring or limiting internet access in the masses.

[bots]

you can't stop kids doing something they have a mind to do. If they don't have a phone they can steal one, or buy one cheap second hand. They will always find a way when adults stop them doing something they want to do

The fundamental issues are around education and society

[thesheriff443]

you can't stop kids doing something they have a mind to do. If they don't have a phone they can steal one, or buy one cheap second hand. They will always find a way when adults stop them doing something they want to do

The fundamental issues are around education and society

Totally agree
It’s the same with suicide,?if someone has got it in their head to do then it’s almost impossible to stop them

[Maru]

you can't stop kids doing something they have a mind to do. If they don't have a phone they can steal one, or buy one cheap second hand. They will always find a way when adults stop them doing something they want to do

The fundamental issues are around education and society

It's less that it can't be stopped. More that parents don't even seem to be bothered about what they're doing on the internet at all. It's like they expect big government and entire websites to do the parenting for them.

[Gusto Brunt]

I got roound it straight away and without a proxy. Flippin' stupid law.

[Oliver_W]

If the purpose is to protect kids from inappropriate content and groomers, why does the Bill include having elite teams looking for anti-illegal migrant posts?

If the purpose isn't to be utilised to enact government overreach and erode online privacy, why does the Vill actively enable such things?

[Maru]

If the purpose is to protect kids from inappropriate content and groomers, why does the Bill include having elite teams looking for anti-illegal migrant posts?

If the purpose isn't to be utilised to enact government overreach and erode online privacy, why does the Vill actively enable such things?

*Probably has to do with stopping trafficking. (oh wait no I misread)

What are anti-illegal migrant posts?

[Kate!]

*Probably has to do with stopping trafficking. (oh wait no I misread)

What are anti-illegal migrant posts?

These posts are anything negative said about illegal migrants

[Maru]

These posts are anything negative said about illegal migrants

Who goes on a porn site to read posts??? :laugh:

[Kate!]

Who goes on a porn site to read posts??? :laugh:

Oh wait lol. Maybe they are gifs. I don't know really.

[Oliver_W]

Who goes on a porn site to read posts??? :laugh:

Exactly! The Online Safety Act is more far-reaching than just adding age verification to adult websites.

[bots]

it's very difficult to browse online with privacy. There are so many ways of identifying individuals

Put natural browsing aside for a minute, and companies can use packet sniffers on your broadband line and identify exactly what you have been doing

[Liam-]

There are many reasons that I can’t stand Starmer, but top of the list right now is making me have to agree with Farage on something, I’m mortified and now he’s got people out there comparing people who think this bill is a government overreach in an attempt to censor things they deem impure, to jimmy saville? It’s like they’re completely opposed to being on the right side of things

[Mystic Mock]

Who goes on a porn site to read posts??? :laugh:

:whistle:

[Mystic Mock]

There are many reasons that I can’t stand Starmer, but top of the list right now is making me have to agree with Farage on something, I’m mortified and now he’s got people out there comparing people who think this bill is a government overreach in an attempt to censor things they deem impure, to jimmy saville? It’s like they’re completely opposed to being on the right side of things

Well I never thought that I'd see the day where Liam and Nigel Farage are on the same page.:joker:

That's how bad this policy is, it's uniting almost everyone against Starmer.:laugh:

[bots]

There are now a multitude of methods being used to get round this now. One of the methods are sites that are creating fake driving licence details with Keir Starmers picture on it :joker:

[Crimson Dynamo]

There are now a multitude of methods being used to get round this now. One of the methods are sites that are creating fake driving licence details with Keir Starmers picture on it :joker:

Its getting about as successful as saying "be gamble aware" at the end of online betting adverts

:laugh:

[Mystic Mock]

Its getting about as successful as saying "be gamble aware" at the end of online betting adverts

:laugh:

This.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Its getting so bad watching Rangers I half expect to be age verified for the Celtic game tomorrow!

[Zizu]

The problem with this, is if children are able to access an older family member's details just so they can get on the Porn Site.


The crazy thing is all the under age people who they are ‘protecting /preventing’ will be technically savvy enough to find away around the new system and the only ones who can legally watch porn either won’t want to jump through hoops to prove their age or won’t know to use a VPN ( if they even know what one is in the first place ! )


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[arista]

Many folks have got round the age check

By putting USA first
on a sex site choice search

[Maru]

Many folks have got round the age check

By putting USA first
on a sex site choice search

:laugh: I don't know why, but that sounds funny

[Mystic Mock]

Its getting so bad watching Rangers I half expect to be age verified for the Celtic game tomorrow!

:joker:

[Mystic Mock]

The crazy thing is all the under age people who they are ‘protecting /preventing’ will be technically savvy enough to find away around the new system and the only ones who can legally watch porn either won’t want to jump through hoops to prove their age or won’t know to use a VPN ( if they even know what one is in the first place ! )


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People are definitely finding methods around it, so you're right about younger people navigating around this daft policy.

[Zizu]

People are definitely finding methods around it, so you're right about younger people navigating around this daft policy.


I bet 90% of those watching porn online now are all underage !!


Just highlights how useless governments are … yet we trust them to control our borders, our defences and our lives !!


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[bots]

Adults don't want to give their details to unknown age verification sites, so it's the full age rage spectrum that always viewed porn sites that now use vpn's etc to bypass it

No-one in their right mind would share private details with some dodgy verification site that could be hacked in an instant

[Mystic Mock]

I bet 90% of those watching porn online now are all underage !!


Just highlights how useless governments are … yet we trust them to control our borders, our defences and our lives !!


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I agree on both points.