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The UK tries, once again, to age-gate pornography (www.theverge.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

They wont have anything but a minimal budget to even research this properly, let alone employ the staff or setup the systems to manage it properly.

I realise China monitors a lot more than porn and their population is much much larger however they have between 20 and 50k working on it. Even if you cut down the scope you are still looking at thousands of employees to do this properly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Too true.

I actually used to work for a branch of the British government and their philosophy was never spend any money, especially on maintenance.

So I would not be surprised if you're right. Also the ICO are completely toothless, I don't think they've ever actually done any legal enforcement. It's their fault that all the websites have the stupid cookie pop-up warnings. Somebody asked him if that would be acceptable under the law and they said yes, even though it's clearly ridiculous and clearly violates the law, but that set the precedent. They set a precedent on Twitter. Idiots

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Isn't the cookie warnings because of the EU?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Eh? The cookie popups are because prior to that point websites were just doing whatever the fuck they wanted with no disclosure, as bluntly as the requirements for cookie disclosure have been implemented.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Don't worry about it, they'll just use AI to do it...