Più di 50 siti Web porno trovati senza verifica dell’età nonostante la nuova legge sulla protezione dei minori online in vigore

Can anyone let me know which ones these are. Asking for research purposes.

I mean this is the entirely predictable outcome of this law, right? The legitimate sites that enforce regulation and take steps to remove harmful content and exploitation are the ones that kids won’t be able to see.

Instead they get the unregulated, un ethical sites that will likely help fuel abuse and exploitation and expose kids to the most harmful content there is. They operate outside the uk and if one gets blocked they’ll spin up another straight away.

Meanwhile, people have lost access to addiction and domestic abuse websites… It’s an awful law with awful implantation and awful outcomes. It’s doing real harm to people in less than a week and needs repealing ASAP.

Foreign websites are of course going to drag their feet on implementing new measure just for the sake of the British Government, because it costs them money for little benefit.

Literally anything that isn’t a huge site is either just blocked or ignoring the rule because the government isn’t going to scrape the internet for obscure sites that might be breaking the porn laws.

Only 50? That’s pretty good going given there are hundreds of thousands of adult websites.

There are millions of websites hosting porn on the internet. 99% of them will completely ignore this law.

God, I’m shocked. Foreign companies operating already somewhat controversial sites in “not giving a fuck about what the UK legislation which makes their lives harder” shocker.

Does anyone know how the UK can force foreign websites to follow their laws? Or would the government have to force ISPs to block non compliant websites instead?

“In 2012, estimates of the total number of pornographic websites stood at nearly 25 million comprising about 12% of all the websites.”

That fact alone demonstrates the insanity of attempting to regulate at the individual website level.

The controls should, obviously, be device level – which have been available to parents for over a decade…

I guess the ISPs then block the URL? But then they just pop up again.

The rule seems to basically stop thick children from getting on it, while encouraging anyone with basic computer skills to go on less ethical websites.

I think the issue here is the pro-OSB line is simple and popular – ‘kids shouldn’t be able to get onto porn.’ But the implementation doesn’t work. Campaigners need to find a basic line which doesn’t rely on computer knowledge to fight this.

For anyone actually concerned about this, just remember that Pirate Bay is basically still accessible in the UK, along with most other torrent sites that were “banned”.

I was happily surprised when the sites I used had no new verification. Then I was shook with the realization that I’m so far down the gooner hole that they slipped under the radar.

And for some reason it allows Reddit to censor and require ID for subs about the Israeli war.

Not the Ukrainian war but just the subs that feature footage of the Israeli war in Gaza…….

Yay! Best timeline :S

I did wonder how long it would take for an article like this to turn up.

The safety checks themselves are a load of crap.

You can use a random fake email address with no age check. 

I’ve took a photo of a drivers licence I’ve found on Google images and it worked.

I’ve seen people use Norman Reedus in death standing to do the “look your age check” 

I’ve seen people use Ai videos to get access.

Almost every browser has free vpn extensions, so you can just turn it on, access the site and browse like usual.

And half the websites I use don’t even have the checks, any child with an iq above 10 will be able to navigate around these checks within seconds. 

The only thing this does is make it difficult for legit users, because some kid is going to hack these lists and find that John Smith from Salisbury likes searching for Big titty teens and get cancelled faster than a ceo at a cold play concert. 

A complete waste of time and you’ve got to be a right fool to sign up using your real details that’ll be stored on a database forever. 

I’m confused as to why this is needed. Aren’t ISPs already supposed to block mature content in the UK? You are supposed to verify your age (typically with a credit card) to unlock these sites. So, if a parent unlocks this, it’s really on them. This point is something I haven’t seen being brought up anywhere.

More than 50 is hilarious. There are thousands upon thousands. Anything registered in Russia for starters. It’s gonna be hilarious watching them play whack a mole with endless expensive court cases trying to shut down pornsite.xxx. Just for them to reopen hours later as pornsite.xyz and they have to start all over again prosecuting it.

Would these just rather geofence and block UK access rather than do age verification? Given the legal fallout that would happen (has happened, like with the Tea website) where it turns out verification data wasn’t deleted as outlined in policy, etc, and it caused public data loss.

VPNs would work around that, and it blocked to the UK would, I thought, make it be in compliance. The only way to then deal with that would be if the government brough VPNs in scope. I’d imagine that to go down like a lead balloon

I’ve had to use VPNs when in NI, because some ISP/access points geolocate me to the Republic, stopping me accessing some streaming services properly.

Massive unwanted government overreach that can easily be bypassed by VPN just because couple of parents were too lazy to do their jobs.