Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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Why not just gouge out their eyeballs, it's the only way to make sure!
Oh, what's that, it's not actually about the porn, it's about getting everyone to self-submit personal info to your shitty databases? Ooh, ok, gotcha!
Edit: sorry about the non-sequitur, I'm losing my fucking mind...
It's so weird. Just don't give your kids unrestricted internet access if you're concerned about any of this...
What's wild is that I have to assume most of us don't. My friends have said outright their kids won't get smart phones until a certain age and are consciously deciding media access levels for different ages.
We all grew up with open internet and most of us know that it was a bad thing. We don't need laws to govern access.
It's just an excuse to build more surveillance and censorship systems. Mostly, because we all learned various empowering things from the internet growing up that was outside of their state funded systems.
This is not an endorsement of homeschooling. Merely a statement that, even with the bad of the internet, we also learn many things that annoyed politicians and elites alike.
The 2010s were full of protests and organizing made possible by open access to information. That's the real problem.
Just give them a flip-phone and a living-room computer.
Or, y'know... they could do some actual parenting and talk to their kids about this. Kids aren't morons, they're just inexperienced. They are actually capable of understanding, like, words and stuff as long as one offers enough context for them... Actually teach the kids to use the internet, help them develop some insights.
And if anyone's panicked about the immoral stuff going on in the porn industry (and there are plenty of things to be addressed and critiqued about a hystorically predatory domain), then address those directly! Friggin' nurture their critical thinking and empathy! Locking them up in the fucking basement isn't gonna Protect Them From Evil™, it just ensures they'll be maladapted and sociopathic once they manage to escape from fucking prison! (no pun intended)
Edit: I will say this forever and ever - it is the parents' duty to adapt to the world in which their kids have to live, not to force their kids to adapt to a world their parents wish would apply!
And if anyone's panicked about the immoral stuff going on in the porn industry (and there are plenty of things to be addressed and critiqued about a hystorically predatory domain)
You're 100% correct, but I would also like to point out how weird it is that porn seems to be the ONLY industry where these religious nutjobs pretend to care about workers.
In the US, the same people who say they care about the porn industry preying upon women are the same ones rolling back child labor legislations to send 14 year olds to meat packing plants. The same ones who have kept the minimum wage where it is for decades. The same ones who want to ban abortion even in cases where the woman's life is threatened. I know this is a BBC article about the UK, but I can't help but see some parallels with the right-wing religious conservatives everywhere in the world.
They don't care about women. They don't care about children. They don't care about workers. They care about having lots of cheap labor. They care about parents being too tired, too overworked, too risk-averse for the sake of their children to dare to fight back. They want a world where peasant girls get married at 14 and start cranking out more babies immediately. Any substitute which threatens that (birth control, abortion, homosexuality, pornography, sex education) is under attack.
In the US children get shot and killed at school on a monthly basis and all the government can think to do is age-gate porn and ban books
please think of the children!
He says with 2TB of CSAM on his computer
I guess it's just too late for all those children that viewed porn. The piles of their dead bodies must be enormous!
Stop blocking Wikipedia
A friend recently told me that palantir has some sort of stake in this data management for the OSA? Is this true? I know they’ve had a deal with NHS England for a few years
If so, our world is taking a very scary turn
If anyone hasn’t I’d advise to do research on palantir, Peter thiel and Curtis Yarvin for a window into the psychology of the people pushing us down this road
If Thiel's mafia organisation (I refuse to call that scrap by desecrating sir Tolkien's works' names) has a deal with the NHS, then that should be ended ASAP. Fuck that, that's some serious spying.
Capitalism is shit, and there are things where it especially NEVER, EVER should have any access, power or influence, directly or indirectly:
Iirc a thiel company, Persona, does the ID verification
Lovely
I have a great job lined up in the UK, I'm not sure I can take it up considering that is turning into this kind of shit hole.
I wouldn't take it up, honestly. Best to go for somewhere in the EU instead.
The UK is a US puppet state, and pretty much showing it.
It's been this kind of shit hole surveillance state for a long time. Look at the snooper's charter/investigatory powers act, for example.
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It's their job to guard their kids from this content first and foremost. It's their job to put it into context for their children. But the article doesn't even mention that any of this is a humongous failing of parents.
Next this commissioner will want to outlaw computer mice because they're used to click pornographic content without verifying the age of the finger on the button. And roads because adult content actors use them to get to jobs.
The way forward is not banning or making worse all sorts of useful tools as collateral damage in this "think of the children" campaign. It is to get all adult content everywhere behind a barrier toddlers cannot break. We were fine with porn mags partially obscured on the top shelf at a news agent when that was a thing. And the salesperson making sure the customer wasn't a minor. The solution isn't closing all digital news agents.
And it's quite telling that the existence of VPNs didn't play a bigger part in this UK online safety initiative. Like it wasn't obvious that when the west entrance to porn central was closed off, people wouldn't naturally look for the ones in east, north, and south.
Edited typo
stop making housing so expensive instead of thinking about children every hour ministers
ffs, authoritarian overreaching technologically illiterate BS. This also won't work if you're determined, make sure you have a paid up VPS!
I have yet to read any coherent argument why any kind of media that young people actively choose to watch, actively seek out, would ever be harmful to them.
It’s the battle-cry of insecure folk growing old.
If I don’t like it, it must be bad. But if I don’t understand it, it must be dangerous.