UK Age Verification Legislation Incoming

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It has been confirmed that from July all Porn Sites will require Age Verification for UK users to access them. If they will not have such tools in place the UK users will not be allowed to access these sites.

Will Chyoa be affected? Are/will there be Age Verification tools ready to allow users from the UK to access this site from July?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-47960775
 
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I'm neither from the UK, nor do i work in any "law" related field, but on a first glance one could hope that writing is not really what this legislation is about.

- The news article of the bbc links to http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2018/9780111173183 , "The Online Pornography (Commercial Basis) Regulations 2018".
- The 2nd footnote on that site states: “Pornographic material” is defined in section 15(1) of the Digital Economy Act 2017. “Material” is defined in section 15(2) of that Act.
- Now this section 15 ( http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2017/30/section/15 ) appears to be all about "video works".
- It also states: “video work” means a video work within the meaning of the Video Recordings Act 1984, other than a video game within the meaning of that Act.
- "Video Recordings Act 1984": https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/39 states: (2) “ Video work ” means any series of visual images (with or without sound)—(a) produced electronically by the use of information contained on any disc F2 . . . magnetic tape [F3 or any other device capable of storing data electronically ] , and (b)shown as a moving picture.

So it appears to me, that chyoa might not be subject to this legislation at all?
 
They've royally screwed themselves with one point: this will be voluntary. People over here are pissed about this legislation for another reason, they want porn sites to use credit card verification which will leave people open to hackers.
 
From what I've read the legislation is super vague. Sites are expected to enact "suitable age verification" but there is no consensus as to what that should look like. The plan seems to be to wait and see what porn sites come up with and then decide what works.

The whole things a mess and likely to keep the courts busy for for years while they decide what the act actually means. I wouldn't be surprised if implementation gets pushed back yet again.
 
ahh once again the government of this godforsaken rock wastes my money on mollifying a bunch of old cunts and dried up house wives with laws that will do a grand total of fuck all.
 
This quote caught my eye as Chyoa uses adverts :

"Likewise, any platform that hosts pornography but does not do so on a commercial basis - meaning it does not charge a fee or make money from adverts or other activity - will not be affected....."
 
dingsdongs said:
but on a first glance one could hope that writing is not really what this legislation is about.
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the legal text says
“material” means [...] a still image or series of still images [...]
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I think the cover images and hot-linked images fall under that definition.

I couldn't spot any definition of "text" as pornographic material, though the designated regulator states
All types of pornographic content are within the scope of the legislation. The legislation does not exclude audio or text from its definition of pornography.
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it seems like all you would need to have is a "how old are you?" box when someone comes to the site and then save it in cookies.

This whole thing seems to be a fucking joke from top to bottom but then that is pretty much our current government in a nutshell really.
 
LizardGod said:
This whole thing seems to be a fucking joke from top to bottom but then that is pretty much our current government in a nutshell really.
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Politicians might do a lot to distract from problems which can only be solved with unpopular decisions because it might put their reelection at risk.
 
"The delay is damaging to many British age-verification businesses who invested substantial sums of money in developing systems to provide the tools required to check internet users’ identities. They were relying on the launch going well in order to sell their products around the world and make the UK a hub for global age-verification systems, with many backed by small investors who could lose out in the event of a lengthy delay."

I found the real reason the Tories want to push this shit through. Money!
 
There are simply too many porn sites on the internet to lock all of them down at once. I've never seen a commercial porn blocker for which I didn't know at least one obscure site that it had never heard of.

As soon as you try to restrict access to one site, people go to a different one. Look at what happened when Tumblr banned porn in December. Did all those users stop masturbating? No, they went somewhere without "safe mode".

The future of online porn is secure because the user base will never go away and they'll never stop wanting it free and easy.
 
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