Yeah the Act shows the wilful stupidity of politicians who pass legislation without understanding the areas they're legislating on. It's a nonsense act that tries to look like it is "protecting children" and is performative nonsense for MPs to pass moral judgement on things they don't agree with.

But in practice it's a security and privacy nightmare, it's restricting and interfering in the freedom and rights of the majority of the population all to satisfy a stupid moral panic, and it makes the UK look like a backwards state.

Who in their right mind would upload their ID or face pic to some rando porn site to verify an age? It’s like Internet Security 101 to not do that ever.

That's the point. They're not trying to "protect the kids". They're trying to kill porn by making it more cumbersome and uncomfortable for you to do.

This is probably a great time to invest in these businesses. Not that I would, out of principle, but it's pretty obvious they're going to make bank.

Not to mention that the computer literacy of the youngest generation will literally never be on par with the youngest millennials. I started using windows OS at like 4 years old on windows 95. My first computer classes in school started when I was 6. We had years and years of just typing classes on those dummy keyboards that werent even computers. WPM was an actual marketable skill at that time that they wanted to impart on kids.

Basically younger millennials have been cemented as the most technologically literate people alive. Most of the younger generation have the same level of computer literacy as boomers and are even worse than most Gen X. Far less capable than even elder millennials. We had actual QWERTY keyboards by the time we had cellphones, so we never were part of the T9 goofiness either

Nothing is going to catch up the young adults who grew up as IPad kids, because for those of us a bit older we have been exercising actual computer skills basically since we popped out

Hormones and porn addiction. You think a 16 year old who's been watching porn for years is going to give it up over night?

I don't think they are as stupid as you think them.

I mean, back when I was younger I learned pretty much all I know about IT by admining my own computer, and I pretty much did it by trial and error yes. However nowadays kids talk to each other over popular chat applications, eventually one tells another "hey just install this browser/vpn" the same way they install mods for their videogames.

Tho in the end I don't think they will become techy savy tho, I guess just that tor and VPNs will become commonplace in UK.

Meanwhile the old boomers are the ones who are going to forced to shrug "just how it is".

I love how your comment negatively depicts Americans as enslavers while simultaneously portrays everyone else as victims of their government.

seems pretty racist to me.

We had portable storage. Magnetic tape and paper. Floppy and hard drives existed but were gor the most part out of the reach for consumers

I understand however the c64 usually had a floppy when bought in the states

Spending 7 hours copying code from a magazine only to find you did a dumb on line 538 was a magical experience

I remember typing in BASIC programs for my commodore from a magazine. It actually did teach me quite a bit about coding.

Born between '65 and '80? I'm from the lower half of that age bracket and I never did that even once. Knowing the magic incantations to load the game from tape to memory, yes.

Typing in was never "a thing" in the sense that yes, people did it, magazines had these pages of code, but there have been popular consumer friendly ways to load software right from the start. The start being the start of mass adoption of home computers.