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With new UK regulations in effect it is becoming alot more strict ie the visitor to your site MUST effectively verify their age by proving they’re over 18 and blocking access to everyone else. A tick box or button is not acceptable.
My question
1. What are others doing?
2. Do we geo block the UK as a preferred solution?
3. What plugins do you currently adopt on your site?Thanks!!
VPN’s will become booming business, but Mindgeek probably knows that.
If this does go through, I’ll probably start blocking all UK traffic, with an explanation and a redirect to a VPN service.I don’t think it will pass, though. We’re going to be buried in Brexinsanity for years to come and our government of morons and fanatics probably won’t have time to do much other than be constantly cleaning up the mess they’ve created.
Just been looking at avsecure.com which is probably what I will be using, it seems a lot better than what Manwin is offering and it is not Manwin.
I have heard that some adult friendly hosts will add the age verification form for free to all their clients.
You can block or redirect UK traffic, but it is not recommended if you care about the search engine optimization since Google is against doing such things and can penalize sites that are practicing such things.
This is a great article about the UK’s proposed porn block and it blows a number of holes right through it, including letting readers know that the British government is turning the policing of porn over to Mindgeek, and further letting readers know that Mindgeek is the biggest pornographer in the world.
wired.co.uk/article/porn-block-uk-wired-explains
It’s going into effect in April and we have 3 months to comply (so we need something up and running by July), after which they’ll start going after the biggest offenders first.
I’m planning on doing my own age check. From the sounds of it, it’s a pretty low bar. What will pass as age verification is a close up of the ID, plus a pic of them holding the ID. You say, “yeah, looks legit”, delete the two pics (because it’s required by GDPR), maybe make a note of what you looked at to verify, mark the account as verified and that’s it. Anyone logging in with that user name and password in the future is good to go.
They’ve been pretty clear that they’re not trying to stop a determined kid from seeing porn. They’re just trying to stop kids from accidentally seeing porn. So curiously, they’re completely OK with all the holes in the system. Which begs the question, why age verify, why not just say “are you 18+?” That’s basically all they’re asking of social media sites. So Twitter having people mark their accounts as “contains sensitive material” and then the user having to say “I want to see sensitive material” is sufficient.
Hopefully opponents will simply lambaste the government for handing over age verification to pornographers, who they all see as the problem in the first place, and it’ll all disappear.
Technically it did, and was due to come into effect in April 2018, then in April 2019, but it’s apparently been kicked into the long grass.
They haven’t even set a timeline to move it forward beyond the suggestion made a year ago that it will arrive in April this year.
Until they set a date and stipulate who needs what system and how to comply, there’s really not much any of us can do.
Depending on what happens with Brexshit in the coming weeks, there’s a good chance all of this will be abandoned.
I don’t get it. So if I live in the US (I don’t) and I have, let’s say, a small porn blog how the hell I supposed to know that I should implement age verification gate for the UK visitors or block them? Okay, its UK but still. Should I suppose to follow legislation of all countries around the world to comply with them? Well, that doesn’t make much sense, does it?
Unfortunately, yes. There was a time early in the days of the Internet when they were trying to figure our whether the person went to the site or the site went to the person (legally). Unfortunately the site going to the person won. If it had been the other way then you’d just have to abide by one set of laws – the one where your server is located (and where your company does business).
ok, so if Uganda will ban gay porn, you will have to block your website in Uganda even that you have nothing to do with Uganda? And if you don’t, then what? Somebody will kidnap me to Uganda? The only reason why do I know about this extremely stupid idea is because I live in the UK and my friend told me about this a few months ago otherwise I would have no idea about it. There are millions of porn websites and I really doubt that every owner of that website is following stupid UK legislation, plus how said in that article above – there is no fucking way (i) people will give credit card details to verify their age, I am pretty sure they will also require your (masturbation) selfie to make sure that it’s your credit card and not your dad’s, etc.
Well, if they will start enforcing this in the UK, I will just block the UK. I am using VPN without logs so I don’t really care.
