Site Question / Help Worrying new censorship.

[Guest UnabashedUser]

On 4/30/2019 at 1:08 PM, Admin said:

Just want to provide some further clarification, as I believe we have all got a little carried away, and I now have more information on what is happening. 

If you are not in the UK, you are not affected.

If you are in the UK and use a VPN that can change your location to another country, you are not affected.

If you are in the UK, you will be able to get a ONE TIME code from thousands of shops across the country. After entering this code, you will have access to all main porn sites, including peefans (and pornhub), with no need to ever enter another code. Your personal details will not be stored in any sort of database. This change will not mean that the government has any more access to your data than before. 

Personally, I think this system will work well and cause minimal disruption. I foresee no real issues.

If you are in the UK and still worried though, VPNs are cheap. 

DOTvpn is user selectable with multiple choice of countries: currently iceland, spain, NY and LA, Canada, Ireland and Isle of Mann.  Every few days those server addy's are changed.  I find little difference in lag times between them.  

[spywareonya 37,961]

On ‎5‎/‎1‎/‎2019 at 3:26 PM, owlman76 said:

The bottom line is this, being a parent carries with it a number of responsibilities, and one of them is knowing what your kids are doing at all times.

Agree 101%, I usually shut up just because I am not gonna have babies thus I would sound hypocrite

[Guest UnabashedUser]

UK Fappers Rejoice: Porn Age Verification Scheme Delayed Again

by Tyler Durden

Fri, 06/21/2019 - 04:15

 

Underage wankers, rejoice. A British government scheme designed to stop underaged web users from viewing online pornography has again been delayed, the BBC reports.

The changes, which would have required UK internet users to verify their age, were supposed to take effect on July 15, but because the UK 'forgot' to tell European regulators about the plan, they must wait to implement it. Completing the process of notifying the EU could take a staggering six months.

 

Culture Secretary Jeremy Wright told the House of Commons that the UK hadn't informed Brussels about key aspects of the plan: an "important notification process was not undertaken for an element of this policy."

Wright said it was still the government's intention to activate the age-checking system...at some point.

For those who haven't been following the story, the plans for compulsory age-checks for UK porn viewers, which the government has described as the first of its kind in the world, were designed to stop children from "stumbling across" inappropriate content. The plan will require pornographic sites to verify the age of UK visitors by law. If they fail to comply, they could face being blocked by Internet Service Providers.

It's unclear how the rule will be enforced, but it's suspected that sites might be required to ask users to upload photos of their ID.

Critics claim teens will find a way to circumvent the new rules. Astoundingly,  the rules will exempt anyone using a VPN to make it look like they aren't in the UK. Otherwise, they will just migrate to platforms not covered by the law: Twitter, Reddit and image-sharing community Imgur will not be required to administer the scheme because they fall under an exception. To qualify for policing under the rule, more than one-third of a site's content must be pornographic.

Also, sites that host pornography but don't do so "on a commercial basis" are exempt from the law.

The law's proponents acknowledge that it is "not a silver bullet," but instead a first step.

[Guest UnabashedUser]

Looks like a burgeoning market for fake ID's will develop. 

[Guest UnabashedUser]

3 hours ago, UnabashedUser said:

Also, sites that host pornography but don't do so "on a commercial basis" are exempt from the law.

This could work ...

[GottaGoPee 124]

On 4/19/2019 at 1:32 PM, Admin said:

I agree this definitely won't stop minors accessing porn. In fact, the plan seems very poorly thought through in many ways.

As far as I can tell, if you are not in the UK (or not browsing from a UK IP address) you will not be affected whatsoever. (However I imagine many other European countries are likely to implement similar things in the future if this implementation goes reasonably well).

However, for users who are in the UK, PeeFans will unfortunately have to comply or risk being severely fined or blocked by ISPs.

It looks like there will be one main system that all the main porn sites use, where you verify yourself once either using a personal document, or by purchasing a specific card in a store so no data is linked to you when verifying, and you can then access all porn sites that are using this system. Whilst not ideal, it sounds as secure as it can be and relatively painless, so I will try to get us on board with that. So in theory, you could buy a card at almost any shop (if you can prove you're over 18), enter the code online, and then can continue as usual with sites like pornhub and peefans etc.

I would like to stress again that whilst I support stopping young children accessing such explicit content, I am not in favour of this ineffective additional verification for users in this way, but we will simply have to implement it for UK users in some form (from July onward).

Of course, as mentioned already, VPNs are extremely cheap and would bypass this restriction, as you would no longer be accessing the site from a UK IP address.

I'll work to get the best solution possible, but if you're in the UK please be aware we'll have to add something. 

 

@AdminI am from the USA as well as some other people that are also members here.  Will the USA members that get on here have to verify ourselves or just people that are from the UK?

[steve25805 125,663]

10 hours ago, UnabashedUser said:

UK Fappers Rejoice: Porn Age Verification Scheme Delayed Again

by Tyler Durden

Fri, 06/21/2019 - 04:15

 

Underage wankers, rejoice. A British government scheme designed to stop underaged web users from viewing online pornography has again been delayed, the BBC reports.

The changes, which would have required UK internet users to verify their age, were supposed to take effect on July 15, but because the UK 'forgot' to tell European regulators about the plan, they must wait to implement it. Completing the process of notifying the EU could take a staggering six months.

 

Culture Secretary Jeremy Wright told the House of Commons that the UK hadn't informed Brussels about key aspects of the plan: an "important notification process was not undertaken for an element of this policy."

Wright said it was still the government's intention to activate the age-checking system...at some point.

For those who haven't been following the story, the plans for compulsory age-checks for UK porn viewers, which the government has described as the first of its kind in the world, were designed to stop children from "stumbling across" inappropriate content. The plan will require pornographic sites to verify the age of UK visitors by law. If they fail to comply, they could face being blocked by Internet Service Providers.

It's unclear how the rule will be enforced, but it's suspected that sites might be required to ask users to upload photos of their ID.

Critics claim teens will find a way to circumvent the new rules. Astoundingly,  the rules will exempt anyone using a VPN to make it look like they aren't in the UK. Otherwise, they will just migrate to platforms not covered by the law: Twitter, Reddit and image-sharing community Imgur will not be required to administer the scheme because they fall under an exception. To qualify for policing under the rule, more than one-third of a site's content must be pornographic.

Also, sites that host pornography but don't do so "on a commercial basis" are exempt from the law.

The law's proponents acknowledge that it is "not a silver bullet," but instead a first step.

Well if nothing else this does go to showcase the utter incompetence of our government.

[Scot_Lover 1,875]

1 hour ago, steve25805 said:

Well if nothing else this does go to showcase the utter incompetence of our government.

Do any of these people come from a computer/ networking back ground? 

Several hair brained schemes were dreamed up here, none of them worked, and although there is one in place, it relies on the general population to report 'offensive' sites. Nobody ever does , lol. There is now an ad campaign on Australian tv, targeting parents to educate their kids Internet / social media activities. (Primary school age, teenagers already know everything)

This is how it should have done ages ago, instead of all the weird ideas that cropped up. At one point, they were talking about cutting the entire country off the internet, and making it a copy of the Chinese internal Internet. That one caused riots and was quickly dropped.

The people in power are so clueless with the advances in technology. What would happen if the EU said 'no, you can't do that'?

[Admin 14,773]

On 6/21/2019 at 8:26 PM, GottaGoPee said:

@AdminI am from the USA as well as some other people that are also members here.  Will the USA members that get on here have to verify ourselves or just people that are from the UK?

Nope, only UK users (or more specifically, UK IP addresses). 🙂 

[likesToLick 10,216]

On 6/21/2019 at 8:12 PM, UnabashedUser said:

Culture Secretary Jeremy Wright told the House of Commons that the UK hadn't informed Brussels about key aspects of the plan: an "important notification process was not undertaken for an element of this policy."

Wright said it was still the government's intention to activate the age-checking system...at some point.

So,  Brexit is going to make it easier for the government to censor and suppress the people.

Well,  golly shucks,  who in the world woulda guessed that.  🙄 

[likesToLick 10,216]

On 6/22/2019 at 9:01 AM, Scot_Lover said:

Do any of these people come from a computer/ networking back ground? 

You don't find many computer software people in politics,  for probably the same reason you don't find them selling dodgy used cars.

Success in software development requires a deep instinct for logic and a solid respect for the truth.  People who are built this way absolutely despise the slimeballing, corruption, obfuscation and deception of politics. They just can't bear to take part in it, even for a higher goal.

[spywareonya 37,961]

On ‎6‎/‎24‎/‎2019 at 8:52 AM, likesToLick said:

 

Success in software development requires a deep instinct for logic and a solid respect for the truth.  People who are built this way absolutely despise the slimeballing, corruption, obfuscation and deception of politics. They just can't bear to take part in it, even for a higher goal.

Very deep reflection

[steve25805 125,663]

On 6/24/2019 at 7:52 AM, likesToLick said:

You don't find many computer software people in politics,  for probably the same reason you don't find them selling dodgy used cars.

Success in software development requires a deep instinct for logic and a solid respect for the truth.  People who are built this way absolutely despise the slimeballing, corruption, obfuscation and deception of politics. They just can't bear to take part in it, even for a higher goal.

There are plenty of us involved in politics - I am an active member of a UK political party - who also hate all the "slimeballing, corruption, obfuscation and deception of politics". But we tend to be the ordinary foot soldiers of politics, in it because we believe in something, volunteering our efforts for a cause and being wholly unpaid for it. We are entirely different from many of those climbing the greasy pole, in it as much for their careers as for any cause quite often.

Indeed my party currently has a leadership which to some extent bucks the trend but is under constant attack by it's own more careerist MPs. Honest politicians who believe in something are seen as a grave threat, apparently.

But generally, many of the ordinary foot soldiers of politics are not automatically the corrupt slimeball types. They will often remain mere foot soldiers because of that.

[likesToLick 10,216]

3 hours ago, steve25805 said:

I am an active member of a UK political party - who also hate all the "slimeballing, corruption, obfuscation and deception of politics". But we tend to be the ordinary foot soldiers of politics, in it because we believe in something, volunteering our efforts for a cause and being wholly unpaid for it.

I thank you very much for your work and your dedication to making things better.

[spywareonya 37,961]

20 minutes ago, likesToLick said:

I thank you very much for your work and your dedication to making things better.

Steve is great

But you too are a force to be reckoned. I Always love to read your posts

[Peefreak99 3,720]

On 4/18/2019 at 3:02 PM, spywareonya said:

 

 

And now let me tell something REALLY NASTY: a woman that hates men for their urges, is not a woman, and then deserves no respect. Maybe a chance of changing her mind through therapy, but beside that, we need to stop Sexes War: whichever woman doesn't fight by this ideal is a traitor, and on the warfield, traitors are to be executed 

You are the unusual kind of feminist in 2019 the one that actually wants to end the gender war. Im always there to defend my fellow " white privilliged men" that is actually not privilliged at all.... anyway i know the social damage this war is doing so im happy that there is still some good feminists out there. 

[spywareonya 37,961]

On ‎8‎/‎18‎/‎2019 at 9:01 PM, Peefreak99 said:

You are the unusual kind of feminist in 2019 the one that actually wants to end the gender war

Sexes War makes us all slave

Slave to fear, ignorance, and grudge

Everybody wanna have sex, everybody wanna be loved, everybody wanna be UNDERSTOOD AND WELCOMED

It's NOT that hard to realize that 99% humans hate the other sex because they feel/believe the other sex hates them

Feminism as war against males is a psycho-lesbian mental illness: a FEMALE (of which I consider myself quite a mighty example) wants WHAT FEMALES WANT, and thus a FEMINIST must give females what females want, which are LOVE, RESPECT, and PARTNERSHIP (on every level, sexual, emotional, psychological, projectual, of friendship, and so on) with MEN

A woman that works for a different ideal is NOT a FEMINIST but a MALES-HATER

There's all the difference in the world between these two things

Sexes War MUST STOP NOW and be substitued by LOVE

[CON2H4 647]

As Christina Hoff Sommers said, a gender warfare work if both sides keep fraternising with each other. 

[spywareonya 37,961]

18 minutes ago, CON2H4 said:

As Christina Hoff Sommers said, a gender warfare work if both sides keep fraternising with each other. 

If it's a joke I missed it for english being not my mother language

[oliver2 4,403]

I think it’s supposed to be something like “The trouble with the battle of the sexes is both sides keep fraternising with the enemy”, but attempting to google the real quote just drops fifty tonnes of gender politics into my browser.

[CON2H4 647]

Something like that, I was only half remembering myself.

[spywareonya 37,961]

18 minutes ago, oliver2 said:

I think it’s supposed to be something like “The trouble with the battle of the sexes is both sides keep fraternising with the enemy”, but attempting to google the real quote just drops fifty tonnes of gender politics into my browser.

 

15 minutes ago, CON2H4 said:

Something like that, I was only half remembering myself.

AHAHAHAHAHAH NOW I SEE IT

 

...it's not funny ahahahahah

I consider as only enemy the fuckers who wanna win instead of making peace

[Admin 14,773]

Just as a followup on this, the legislation likely won't be enforced until into 2020 now (if it ever even happens). 

[spywareonya 37,961]

13 minutes ago, Admin said:

Just as a followup on this, the legislation likely won't be enforced until into 2020 now (if it ever even happens). 

Hooray!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!