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LlcoolJ

LlcoolJ

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Oct 14, 2009
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Dick Swiveller said:
I think they own more than those two, don't they? Heard an interview with Richard Herring and a guy who had written about the industry. Think he said one guy owns 90% of the sites.
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Probably so. And they are seeing it as a massive money maker (even before they, ahem "lose" lots of people's data) as they'll charge people for the id process.

Complete madness and total bollocks (well and cocks and tits and stuff).
 




S

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Aug 26, 2010
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Best go watch some before they ban me for being 90. Health reasons of course.
 


Albion my Albion

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The thing is children who later become adults are no worse after having viewed porn. If they see too much the healthy ones grow tired of it will cease. The ones who take advantage of their fellow adults will do that whether it's porn or other businesses.
 


Arthur

Arthur

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GOM said:
I have no axe to grind at all, I have a very pleasant relationship with the gambling industry and will not bat an eyelid if they ask for verification of my age. If, however the measures prevent a few minors from becoming gambling addicts or accidentally coming across porn then so be it.

As an adult I am asked for my age or DOB for many things, driving licence or passport. I am not ashamed of it or concerned one iota. You appear to be.
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Where have I said that?? All I’ve pointed out is that it’s not just affecting porn sites and that customers of the company I work for are a bit pissed off about it. Doesn’t bother me at all.
 


Leekbrookgull

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BBassic said:
Couple of interesting things to know about this:

The system being used to carry out age verification, AgeID, was developed by a company called Mindgeek. Mindgeek also own Pornhub and YouPorn.
Margot James, Minister of State for Digital and the Creative Industries, who is championing this bill has voted for greater mass surveillance in the past.
An email press release sent out by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport to 300 people was sent in such a way that exposed every single one of those email addresses (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47962405)

So, not only is the whole age verification system being owned by the company behind two of the biggest porn sites around pretty f**king shady but the very real fears of data breaches have all but been confirmed by a f**king press release talking about the whole thing.

It's madness. Utter madness.
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Saw an interview on News24 and Simon McCoy (?) was giving a minister over the very same thing about security and 300 names listed infact he wasn't far from laughing to everything that the minister said.
 




Acker79

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Saw an article on the guardian, which mentioned you can put any random 16-digit number into the credit card box and it will accept it (might be a bit more complex, but that's the essential of the flaw). The article also pointed out it won't be required of Twitter where you can find plenty of porn, nor any site where a certain amount of the content is not porn, potentially leading to sites evolving to include non-porn stuff just to avoid it.

I'll see if I can find the article again...


EDIT
Here we go:
https://www.theguardian.com/society...fication-rules-can-be-circumvented-in-minutes
 










herecomesaregular

herecomesaregular

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Oct 27, 2008
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Albion my Albion said:
The thing is children who later become adults are no worse after having viewed porn. If they see too much the healthy ones grow tired of it will cease. The ones who take advantage of their fellow adults will do that whether it's porn or other businesses.
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Nah, don't believe that. It's well documented that many kids looking at porn become distorted in their view of what they think is normal sex in a relationship and/or girls feel pressurised.
 


Herr Tubthumper

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Knocky's Nose said:
The internet is still firmly in the 'Wild West' stages, and will be for some time yet.

Where theres a will, there's a way - and teenage boys will no doubt have a lot of willpower... :smokin:
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Don’t teenage girls watch porn?
 




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