Pornography to be blocked by internet service providers unless users opt in

[Khamsin]

I honestly can't remember the last time I've visited a site with those "age check" pages. Those are only for legal pay-porn.

That's because you probably either use a search engine or follow links from other websites which take you straight to the relevant pages. Next time you find a porn site, try seeing what's on their main page.

They don't go through the effort to redirect you until you verify your age. It's just on their main .com page, and they just assume you've been there if you're visiting www....com/greatasses/vids/030/ or whatever.

[Vigilia]

... this is yet another example of the nanny state crap where parents can't be bothered to raise their own children so they just want scapegoats and the government to do it for them. Feckin' Mothers union indeed. You would had thought the riots had taught that it's not the way to go but guess not. Plus it's free publicity for the tories. >_> In reality, as pointed out in this thread already, it's not going to make any difference whatsoever to kids finding porn if they want to.

[Kerberoz]

Again, you're talking about paysites, which only people over age 50 and/or completely imbeciles ever bother visiting.

[Cantih]

Shit son I was backdooring into Smut Hut and Persian Kitty in 1998. I also remember printing out porn on my parent's expensive-as-fuck bubblejet and selling in middleschool for $2 a page.

This reminded me of something.


Kerb
Stumbled across this when I was trawling for fiction that tackled peer system fail points a while back, seems like it'd be right up your alley. It's a riot to boot.
http://futurismic.com/2008/10/01/new...-adam-rakunas/

[Khamsin]

Again, you're talking about paysites, which only people over age 50 and/or completely imbeciles ever bother visiting.

I can think of tons of sites with lots of free porn (in the form of short clips from probably some longer video you'd get if you actually paid). There's lots of "pay" sites that offer more free porn than you could possibly need, which makes you wonder why anyone would subscribe. Just try it, next porn site you visit (that's actually it's own site, hosting it's own porn, not just a collection of links directing you to other sites or some user upload video site like the various ___tubes), check their main page. Yes, they'll probably be offering pay porn along with that age check, but it's the same site you were just browsing free porn samples from.

[Uzor]

Bitches should just move to Sweden. Nudity is child play here. We have comedies for children that show full frontal male and female nudity as well as sex scenes, blowjobs and gay sex.

Sadly we've started to take after the states and got more restrictive, but it's still a blast.

[Kerberoz]

next porn site you visit (that's actually it's own site, hosting it's own porn, not just a collection of links directing you to other sites or some user upload video site like the various ___tubes)

site you were just browsing free porn samples from.

I give up. You're terrible at finding porn.

[Gulkeeva]

Man for a sec, I thought I missed something big thinking the US was going to be doing that, almost had a heart attack

as for porn on the net... I think google has gave up and just directs anything i type in search to adult content related material.

[Priran]

I found it amusing that one of the ISPs was "Virgin".

[The Blackrose]

Man for a sec, I thought I missed something big thinking the US was going to be doing that, almost had a heart attack

as for porn on the net... I think google has gave up and just directs anything i type in search to adult content related material.

You probably have your own SafeSearch category by now.

[Khamsin]

I give up. You're terrible at finding porn.

I don't see what's hard to understand there. You find free porn at www.someadultsite.com/bigassurl/vids/030 and then check their main page at just www.someadultsite.com, and see if there's an age check. They may offer pay porn, too, even though you were just at another page on their site with plenty of fapworthy material for free.

I was just distinguishing actual self-hosting porn sites from sites that don't actually host anything and just link you to other porn sites.

[notorious bum]

I think what he means is that is some oldschool dialup-type ish to be floating around TGP's that redirect your ass to sample galleries. Nowadays you can do much better and avoid the inevitable porn aids from jumping through so many hoops just to see some tits. You might as well create a tumblr and follow a bunch of porn blogs if you just want to surf pics and don't feel like hitting up archive sites. Otherwise, tubes and torrents kill that dinosaur porn.

[Kerberoz]

www.someadultsite.com/bigassurl/vids/030

1998 called.

I was just distinguishing actual self-hosting porn sites from sites that don't actually host anything and just link you to other porn sites.

But self-hosting sites are less than 1% of the porn on the internet. Anyone with half a brain will use the hundreds of forums/image boards/blogs dedicated to DDL links, torrents, etc. There's no point in ever visiting a primary source site when every video released is ripped, hosted in glorious 1080p, and posted in a hundred places within the hour. Most of these have no "age check" at all, or the same registry form that every forum uses, and isn't even required unless you want to post. Hell, you could even include the "tube" sites if you somehow enjoy choppy SD eyecancer.

[Cleverness]

Isn't UK the country that had plain gay sex on a TV show on a public channel? This thing is pointless anyway, you can't stop people from getting porn just as much as you can stop them from downloading music/movies.

[notorious bum]

In related news, that .XXX shit has begun recently, which is another weapon fundies want to use in their war on porn. Haven't really followed it recently, but I remember it being a juicy topic among all the net neutrality talks in the past.

[Melena]

[Sepukku]

Man for a sec, I thought I missed something big thinking the US was going to be doing that, almost had a heart attack

as for porn on the net... I think google has gave up and just directs anything i type in search to adult content related material.

I also had a half second moment of worry...

As for Google, I find it no longer really cares and gladly steers me to whatever I need porn-wise, but it will never Auto Fill-In my response when on the main page typing in my inquiry - EX: All porn star names won't come up, whether they're a veteran like Aurora Snow or a newbie who only has 2 scenes - Google will still know they're a XXX performer and won't have them be an auto fill-in reply.

Some people have really simple, lame ways of finding porn. Outside of torrenting, anyone who doesnt use advanced searching techniques on google has issues - ex: "<pornstar's name> <content related> <site:{tubesite}or{filehostingforum}>".

[Demosthenes11]

Why do countries keep trying to pass laws to get teen boys to stop masturbating?

Put a 15 y/o kid in a room with his grandma 24/7 and he will still get 1 a day

[Pirian]

Man for a sec, I thought I missed something big thinking the US was going to be doing that, almost had a heart attack

as for porn on the net... I think google has gave up and just directs anything i type in search to adult content related material.

[Khamsin]

1998 called.


But self-hosting sites are less than 1% of the porn on the internet. Anyone with half a brain will use the hundreds of forums/image boards/blogs dedicated to DDL links, torrents, etc. There's no point in ever visiting a primary source site when every video released is ripped, hosted in glorious 1080p, and posted in a hundred places within the hour. Most of these have no "age check" at all, or the same registry form that every forum uses, and isn't even required unless you want to post. Hell, you could even include the "tube" sites if you somehow enjoy choppy SD eyecancer.

Well, porn technology aside, I think any law would mainly apply to those kinds of sites, the self-hosting porn business sites and galleries. It's much harder to regulate torrents, forums, etc. Think of how the RIAA would be all over a self-hosting free movie/music site, but can't really do much about forums and torrents.

No actual law would be enforced through word filters and other net nanny methods. It would only be enforced against tangible entities that the law enforcement agencies can actually reach and have power over.