[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Maru

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). 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

I'm Antifa and proud.

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.

[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

[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by 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

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]

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...e_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/...ave-the-state/

[Vicky.]

Boohoo

[Barry.]

Well it happened. Twitter/X seems so different now

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by Barry.

Well it happened. Twitter/X seems so different now

In what way ?


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[Maru]

Originally Posted by Zizu

In what way ?


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I want to know also lol

[Barry.]

Originally Posted by Maru

I want to know also lol

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

[Maru]

Originally Posted by Barry.

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.

[Barry.]

Originally Posted by Zizu

In what way ?


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No more nude posts. In the uk at least.

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by Barry.

No more nude posts. In the uk at least.

I haven’t noticed any difference at all


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[Redway]

Originally Posted by Zizu

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?

[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

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by 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

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]

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

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

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by bots

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.

Why do I ever try to cut them some slack?

[Oliver_W]

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

Of course this idea was started by the Tories.

Why do I ever try to cut them some slack?

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.

[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

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by MTVN

This did make me chuckle

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

[Maru]

Originally Posted by Cherie

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.

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Maru

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]

Originally Posted by MTVN

This did make me chuckle

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.

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by MTVN

This did make me chuckle

…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…