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Oh no, now the underage viewers will have to hold up a picture of Steve Buscemi to pass the camera check.
The law also makes it mandatory to use a third-party age assurance provider “that is legally and technically independent of any online platform hosting or providing porn content.”
Meanwhile, over on Googles I can find images of blowjobs and corner shop magazines available for viewing. Strange how they want to invade everyone's privacy in the name of some "online porn".
Anything to save parents from actually having to parent
lol we ignore real problems in the world to do this
Ngl this is such an unhinged , disconnected , dystopian and anachronic take i dont even know where to start.
There is definitly a problem with internet and kid/youth but porn isnt even 5% of it. Fucking morons in our government as always.
A ways back, I saw an article about how the French were rioting because their retirement age was being increased from 62 to 64. I remarked that it was interesting to see the French rioting against a change that wouldn't even quite bring them to parity with the US but Americans can't be bothered to riot for almost anything. A Frenchman said they didn't want to even be more like the US in any way.
This law is absolutely the now-classic American attitude that kids can watch violent movies all day, but if they'rEXC exposed to one female nipple, you gotta shut it all down. Is France turning into America now, following Britain down the red, white, and blue path?
This is for porn sites not nipples though?
The internet is full of coomers and this community is no exception.
Everytime some news comes out that kids are being protected from accessing porn websites or social media (soft porn), this community goes into a frenzy. Like clockwork.
It's not the goal itself that's the issue. Protecting kids from harmful content until they're ready to deal with it is absolutely a worthwhile endeavour.
But the means to that end often pose a massive security and privacy issue.
You're supposed to give all your identifying details to some website and trust them, that they'll use it only for the legal purpose of verifying that identity and promptly deleting them, rather than selling them to criminals who now have everything they need for identity theft. Hell, just storing them is a risk because we all know how many companies (and people) treat IT security as an afterthought at best and a breach compromising the identification of thousands of people would be a fucking nightmare.
And what if your kid tries to circumvent it? Now their face is out there on some server, whether or not they succeed. Is that really better?
The argument is that the onus should be on parents to protect their children and help them find their way safely, rather than compromising everyone else with poorly thought-out and invasive policies.
The problem with rioting in the states is that, there absolutely are riots and thus riot police. Rioting gets you shot.
Oh no...my French porn...
Oui oui.
😏🥖
Hon hon hon
Texas becoming a leader in European law making! Yee haw!
I'd sooner use a VPN than use face id online to view porn.
So what happens when "facial age estimation" is wrong?
A whole generation is going to get great at facial contour make up so they can watch porn.
Why bother? Use an AI filter.
Why bother? Use a VPN.
Or just download the Brave browser, hit 'open new tab in Tor'.
Europe is preparing to host the Age Assurance Standards Summit, where industry leaders will gather to discuss age assurance legislation across the continent.
Really? They’re gonna talk about porn at AASS eh? Or if you visit the site, since it’s Global and all, GAASS.
But either way, AASS or GAASS, no one rides for free.
"For some weird reason identity fraud and illegal porn have seen a significant rise." - France in a little bit
For legal reasons, before letting you watch a guy pounding his stepsister stuck in the washing machine, we have to ask you to select your favorite Dexter's lab episode.
I prefer Russian porn anyway
I feel like nearly all russian porn I've seen consists of something unconsentual, like deep web of porn
Our experiences differ greatly it seems.
Well I was mostly browsing deep web (/j just in case)
Block porn but topless commercials are okay? I still see that as a win!!!
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