If it’s illegal anyway, you might as well pirate it.
Last time I checked, the darknet marketplaces have whole sections just for stolen pr0n site username/passwords
EDIT: example screenshot
“Instead of these crude, circumventable policies that create an infrastructure of private companies effectively doing law enforcement, they should just mandate that every operating system provider has to create genuinely functional parental controls apps that meet a set of minimum criteria,” Lazar said
Uhhhh no.
This might seem drastic but think of the great benefits to society! Such as…. uhm… uuuh. Hey! Look what I can do! 🤹
Privacy violations galore?
and users tapping out, completely. Build your libraries
My jedi powers sense and increase in VPN subscription sales.
but doesn’t this just feel like the path to making those age gated or otherwise inaccessible?
LoL no…
Laws like this are trojan horses for draconian data collection policies and a failure of every other metric. The “Think of the children” people do not understand technology or how to enforce their own laws. Anyone with the impetus to get around the changes these laws mandate will do so with a google search and ~30 min. worth of effort regardless of age or ability to wave a credit card at something.
Hold a photo of the PM up to the camera?
I wanna bet the rich will have some shell companies and lobby so they can anonymously access porn trough those.
Prove my age?
No thanks
I think I’ll just wait until this thing… blows over
[ funk guitar plays ]
If the porn sites just block the country from connecting with a notice as to why, will that piss people off enough to force them to change the law?
After a brief Internet search, I have found that no country or state has entirely pulled out after going all in on age verification. Most of them back out before even starting. So things don’t look very good for Australia.
Pornhub does this in several US states. When you try to connect you get a message about why it’s blocked in your state. So far I don’t know of any state that has changed the law back.
Like they do for Texas and Utah and I’m sure a few other states.
Let’s all rub one out for our fallen brothers…
now all curious and unsurveilled teens can only watch porn on the darkweb
Where the good stuff is
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Everything is an addiction to those with no self control. Don’t project your issues onto the rest of us.
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Porn addiction isn’t a real thing, sparky.
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In other words, you don’t understand what addiction is or how it works, kiddo. The simple fact is that psychology has dismissed the notion of “porn addiction” as unscientific. If you don’t like that, tough.
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No, sweetie, it’s actually a great article that’s devastating to your claims.
porn addiction is not real, if someone’s porn consumption is such that it is disruptive of their daily lives then they likely have some sort of underlying psychological issue, but the same can be said of anything, including exercise for example
but I do think something needs to be done that doesn’t just hand wave it off as “let the parents do their job” because we don’t live in that world.
We absolutely could live in that world, but we’re never gonna get there if people like you continue to pass the buck to others who should not at all be tasked with being responsible for other people’s children—particularly not corporations run by billionaires who have been raping or facilitating the rape of children for decades.
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VPN subscriptions are going to skyrocket
So what about Reddit and Lemmy’s nsfw parts? Will they so need age verification for the apps now too, even if you don’t access any of them?
