Also, how the hell do they think that they're going to be able to enforce this? They do seem to be doing this for the right reasons, but I have no clue how in the world they think that they're going to be able to A) enforce it, and B) do so without breaking into user's privacy.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-gchq-encry...
And the UK government lost in the European Courts (that kind of countercheck is going to disappear after Brexit):
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-45510662
But all they will do is make it more secret and deny everything.
But while I agree that the average porn is not how children should get sexual education ... I doubt this is the way to change that.
I don't mean talking about how the penis works and how to wrap a condom on a cucumber, because I think the UK does that already.
I mean actually talking about how to have great sex, what works, how to please a partner, etc. Feel free to have a final where students have to review some porn and point out the parts that doesn't work in reality.
Of course that would horrify parents and teachers, but the reality in 2019 is that you can no longer _not_ talk about the subject, you can only leave the discussion up to the porn producers and mind geeks search engines or get into the fray yourself.
You mean like in Monthy Pythons the Meaning of Life?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7lRGIkLEYoA&has_verified=1
Seriously, please don't.
This is akin to banning underage consumption of alcohol, tobacco, and gambling. Very hard to enforce in practice, but overall the right thing to do, and probably useful even if not 100% effective.
I agree that the implementation is a bit weird. (A fee for every device? Vouchers?)
No it doesn't, that's a bizarre interpretation of English and Welsh law and of police powers to search computers.
(there's an argument that "ensure sufficient motivation is required to do so" is the actual rationale for this and many other behavioural regulations anyway)
If everyone breaks the law then the prosecutor has the ability to arbitrarily imprison anyone.
The latter isn't exactly without the potential for dubious consequences (the BBFC has theoretical grounds to ask my ISP to block Reddit) but "selective prosecution of undesirables" isn't one of them (and the BBFC is probably no more likely to use its power to make Reddit "adults only" than it is to do the same for Disney films with a bit of gore)
By pushing people into clandestinity, surveillance against serious stuff will become even more complicated.
> Mindgeek lobbied hard for this. They (owners of Pornhub etc) are the government's approved age verifiers, so are in theory now in charge of access to all the other porn sites.