From July the UK is requiring all adult sites to verify the users age. Will this site be doing that?
From July the UK is requiring all adult sites to verify the users age. Will this site be doing that?
Not sure how the UK intends to enforce that against sites which are not based in the UK nor run by UK companies.
WLPC is based in Canada.
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That UK law is really badly designed...
I see that Amazon UK "age restricted items" require an identity card on delivery. On ordering you just need to check the appropriate checkbox.
There is however no mention of their trove of kindle porn...
I wonder how they plan to address that. Currently, you can't even find if an eBook is age appropriate.
More worrying are the similar laws by Arkansas, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Oklahoma, Utah, Texas and Virginia.
Will this site be doing that?
My Question is how will the verification be done by any website.
Forged documentation is not that hard to produce. I can't think of any means using the internet that can't be circumvented.
As I read in an article about the new law, they proposed either credit card checks or photo IDs.
Whether that is effective is irrelevant. For site owners, it's not about actually making sure their user base doesn't include any minors, but simply to do something according to the law so UK ISPs don't DNS block the domain name.
True. That makes the law useless. With that in mind, the law was probably passed to demonstrate that they were on top of the matter and doing what they could to meet the need of keeping minors off adult sites. The people trying to keep minors off the sites were probably happy and never realized how easy it was to get around the law.
It's in response to hysterical parents who bought their kids smartphones, didn't install parental controls, let their kids spend several hours a day on the phone without monitoring what they were doing, then when something went wrong they blamed the government.
AJ
You're aware parental controls can be bypassed? I don't know the hacks necessary - not being in the appropriate age group myself - but you can be sure those who need to know do know.
Oh, and I saw a ferocious rant in another forum on how awful this censorship was and how evil Labour were. I was not the only one who pointed out that this particular piece of idiocy had been passed while their predecessors were in power.
I mean, I wanted to disagree, given how the UK already has an opt-out, ISP-based content filtering system. Which means, in order to demand the government to protect their children, they first had to actively expose them to it.
...but then I read that article about how 25% of kids in the UK aren't potty-trained when starting school (not kindergarten... SCHOOL!), and how unfair it is to parents that they get called to change diapers.
I have a relative who was not entirely potty trained when he entered school. He's mildly autistic and was a few years behind the norm when it came to non-essentials such as speaking, reading and writing.
the UK already has an opt-out, ISP-based content filtering system.
I know for broadband, nowadays we have to opt in for porn content but I'm not sure the same applies to mobiles.
AJ
and how unfair it is to parents that they get called to change diapers
Unfortunately that's a small minority of cases. Usually the teachers grit their teeth and do the job.
Some kids are entering school with minimal language skills and not able to eat except with their fingers.
AJ
Sadly some parents do not teach their children the basics of life. Such as reading or knowing numbers.
No idea when I learnt to read, but enjoyed reading books through all my school years. Still enjoy reading now and well past the proverbial three score years and ten (60+10=70).
I can also get around using maps and no GPS, never drove in to a lake or river. Some dubious roads but knew where I was.
I taught my kids to read before they started kindergarten, as well as basic math. Same as I was taught. But given my youngest is twenty-nine, that seems almost a bygone era. Too many parents think it's the government's job to educate their kids. They're wrong. They may help, but it's ultimately your job as a parent to properly educate your kids.
I and all of my siblings learned to read and do basic addition before kindergarten. It was a hoot when my younger brother was reading to his kindergarten class. When he was three or four years old, he absolutely amazed the mother of one of his friends. She asked my mother, "Is he really reading that book?" My mother responded, "No, he has several Dr. Seuss books memorized."
"No, he has several Dr. Seuss books memorized."
That was my eldest, including Fox in Sox! He can still recite that cover to cover at age thirty-six.