Requiring that people buy a "porn pass" (a nice way of saying license) in order to view porn is moronic. I also have reservations on how peoples information is collected and stored when they buy said porn pass which could have far reaching negative consequences.

Fair question.

Mainly the possible implementations and the thus following implications.

It enrages me how technically illiterate (insult of your choosing) conjure up these idiotic ideas and hordes of (more insults) companies jump on that bandwagon. All in the name of “save the children”. When we all know that that’s a very poor excuse but an excellent gateway for further regulation, since few people will publicly stand against it for obvious reasons.

I also faintly remember them banning various genres like bdsm and squirting. The latter because it might be simulated by pissing. I’m in to neither but it’s nobody’s business, as long as it’s consenting.

Whether or not to age-restrict porn I don’t know. I’m the wrong person to ask.

I would say, it’s a horrible use of taxes to have the government attempt the Sisyphean task of classifying every site on the Internet and keeping it updated.

If porn is a social ill (not sure I’m convinced, but I probably could be with some data), before we go all boot-on-face, let’s at least try engaging with minors first.

As a minor in the US I was subjected to countless classes and lectures exploring the harms of tobacco, drugs, and alcohol. If a minor in the US begins smoking, it’s not because they’ve never heard that cigarettes cause cancer.

Are youth in the UK educated about porn and its harms? I would say starting there seems smarter.

The specific moronic idea here was that the UK, a relatively small country that's nowhere near as powerful as it once was should get to enforce this rule for the entire globe.

That's both the idea that wasn't workable (the original plan said ISPs have to censor the rest of the world using DNS blocking, as you may have noticed this doesn't work if you have DPRIVE, which was in fact already under development before the UK Government came up with this stupid idea) and it's the idea that makes no coherent sense anyway. Why should a Russian pornographer obey a British rule? Should a Canadian pornographer obey Chinese rules? How does "pornography" get to be special here? We have international rules, but only for things everybody (more or less) agrees are bad, like murder or piracy. We don't have such agreement as to what pornography even includes, let alone whether it should be restricted and who should get to access it.

I wouldn’t call the general idea “moronic”, however the attitude of the UK government seemed to treat “website” as equivalent to “publication” without any awareness of how much larger the current film classification board would have to become for that to work.

Separately, I would argue that if even one category of content should be age restricted, then internet access as a whole should be age restricted. AI isn’t ready to be a good age-appropriate filter yet.

Age-restricting porn in the internet era is like record companies fighting digital music in the end of the 90s.

Good luck with that.

(all that without having really an opinion on the the topic of if and from which age porn should be restricted)