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    I hope this encourages children to learn an important life skill that will help them in numerous ways: Piracy.

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        I was beating my meat like a boxer with a speedbag to the Playboy magazines I found when I was 11. And that was well before the internet was available. Kids are gonna find something to whack/flick it to, get over it.

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        One should be vastly more worried about people who when they think of children think of porn, or vice-versa.

        Normal people might think of children and think of playground safety or maybe how SUVs should be banned because they’re so much more dangerous for children on streets than normal cars.

        People whose top concern when it comes to “children” is “porn” are emotionally invested in a certain kind of association that normal people don’t usually have in their minds in such strong terms.

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        I watched porn as a teen. Look, maybe in America you’re all puritans or whatever, but I started looking at magazines when I was 13 and then later found online porn (and hell I was LATE to the game according to my classmates). This is a reality y’all have to come to terms with. Teens watch porn.

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    Headlines next year: “VPN subscriptions in the UK up 42069% for some reason”

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    In case anybody needs a reminder, the UK Government’s response to the Snowden Revelations that showed even more widespread surveillance of civil society in the UK than in the US was, unlike in the latter country, to pass laws that retroactivelly made the whole thing legal.

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    Pretty positive this is going to end up being a DNS level block that will be as simple as setting a dns server outside of the UK to bypass.

    Because anything else would create an unbelievable amount of administrative overhead.

    Also imagine the spike in identity theft this is going to cause.

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    I’m an advocate of VPN but this is not the situation to recommend them but to chastise regulators and lawmakers for even allowing this. This is eroding our freedom of speech. I can see politicians expanding this and censoring terrorist speech and speech of certain political ideologies. It is the erosion our civil liberties we need to worry about.

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    Porn perusers will soon have to prove their age by uploading an identity document like a passport, registering a credit card, […]

    Ah, mandatory account creation with linked credit card being the most widely available and likely easiest option?

    No wonder the porn sites aren’t fighting this too hard!

    (…or are they?)

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    So the latest the UK can call an election and get Labor in charge is January 2025, the same month this goes into effect. Wonder if they will rush a repeal or get blamed for it starting?

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      Easy. Everything bad that happens before January 2025 is Gordon Brown’s fault, and everything after it’s Kier Starmer’s. You know it’s true because it says so in the Daily Mail.

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        Whilst I appreciate the satire of the Tories’ one and only politican strategy, as the Snowden Revelations showed back then, New Labour wasn’t any better in their “keeping a watchful eye on the plebes” ways.

        Looking down on the rest as riff-raff that needs to be kept in place is a feature of both Tories and New Labour.

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          The Snooper’s Charter (which made all the things Snowden revealed actually legal) and the thing where it became illegal to film facesitting in the UK both happened under the Cameron administration after being pushed for when Theresa May was home secretary. New Labour didn’t pass anything comparable.

          It might well be the case that GCHQ started their mass surveillance of UK citizens under orders from Blair, but given that five independent inquiries have found that the security services lied to the cabinet about WMDs in Iraq, it’s pretty plausible that they did it of their own volition despite it being illegal.

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            I think the theory that New Labour knew perfectly well what was going on and are no different from the Tories in this makes a lot more sense, especially since the veritable explosion in the use of surveillance cameras dates back to their time as do cases of abusive police surveillance such as the Met infiltration of Ecologist groups (know because at least one of the women in one such group ended up pregnant from one such undercover cop).

            Or are you saying that the New Labour leadership were such complete total incompetent numpties that they could not see any of this for their whole decade in power?!

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    I’m in the US so I’ve always needed a passport to watch porn (or anything else) in Britain.