[HN Gopher] UK porn watchers could have faces scanned
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       UK porn watchers could have faces scanned
        
       Author : Stevvo
       Score  : 28 points
       Date   : 2023-12-05 20:37 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | SuperNinKenDo wrote:
       | Sounds good. Habitualise everybody into granting camera access
       | when they go to porn sites. What could go wrong.
        
       | adhesive_wombat wrote:
       | The UK governments' alternating fetishism for ID cards and porn
       | permits is kinkier than anything.
        
         | ilrwbwrkhv wrote:
         | I swear. There is something sexual in nature with the British
         | govt.
        
       | sublinear wrote:
       | This is incredibly stupid and petty.
       | 
       | Doesn't the UK government have anything better to do? The obvious
       | and mandatory prerequisite before rolling out such pointless
       | legislation is to have an accurate way to verify age that is also
       | reasonably difficult to circumvent... which doesn't exist.
       | 
       | If I were from the UK I'd be more ashamed of the adults than the
       | kids.
       | 
       | > Acceptable methods could include: ... [list of ideas that don't
       | work] ... credit card checks
       | 
       | Bingo. Most sites already have this so it's a whole lot of hot
       | air. This goes directly after the free porn sites, but it's
       | trivial to just use a VPN and pretend like you're in the USA.
        
       | mk89 wrote:
       | So VPNs or p2p. Nowadays kids are much smarter (or at least, used
       | to tech) than these politicians, to be honest. I don't understand
       | how far from reality they must be.
        
       | JoshGlazebrook wrote:
       | And I thought the USA was already criticized for "big
       | government". The UK and EU seem to be in a competition with each
       | other.
        
       | miohtama wrote:
       | In the series of "What could go wrong", delivered you by the
       | government of Boris Johnson and co
        
       | HankB99 wrote:
       | Makes me think of the "Oh face" from "Office Space"
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rROS6u8uR9Y
        
       | ChrisArchitect wrote:
       | [dupe]
       | 
       | More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38528854
        
       | zlg_codes wrote:
       | The bedroom is not the business of the state. What people do in
       | the privacy of their own homes is their business. Gatekeeping sex
       | behind age is also stupid, because all of us were once teenagers
       | and remember the things we felt and did.
       | 
       | It would do our societies far more good to deliver proper,
       | candid, and realistic sex education for our youth AND adults. I'm
       | talking beyond just the mechanics of sex, too. Infectious disease
       | theory is necessary. Discussion of consent, kinks, personal
       | boundaries, they are ALL necessary, and it doesn't happen.
       | 
       | We can go further and offer lectures/seminars for habitual porn
       | use, or maybe groups for people to discuss their relationship
       | with sex and their desire to make it healthier.
       | 
       | Invading people's privacy is not going to make people want sex
       | less. Libido isn't something we should be shaming or isolating.
       | It's an instinct and an emotion, and it can be handled like one.
       | 
       | As usual, the UK can't seem to get its head out of its ass
       | regarding its social conventions. How much does the average UKer
       | know about healthy sex anyway? Probably close to us on the other
       | side of the pond in America with the inherited Victorian
       | repression.
        
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