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Ofcom fines porn site provider £630,000 over failed age checks (www.bbc.co.uk)

submitted 2 weeks ago by QuantumSpecter@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] starblursd@lemmy.zip 91 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

How about they fine the parents who are failing to parent their kids?

[+] Im_old@lemmy.world -57 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

not all parents are savvy enough to know how to do it. not all parents have the parenting skills to do it, because they were not taught them in the first place. not all parents can always monitor their teen kids 24/7, because they might work multiple jobs and teens have (and rightly so) unsupervised time.

also, you can teach them how many times you want that porn will fry their brains, but good luck reasoning at a logical level with a horny teen. Even before internet we managed to find and pass around porn mags, so it's as pointless as the war on drugs.

[–] lil_baka@ani.social 45 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Porn will not fry anyones brain, lol.

Even before internet we managed to find and pass around porn mags, so it’s as pointless as the war on drugs.

In practice it's pointless, but in its reasoning it's actively harmful because it's an attack on healthy sex self-education.

[–] GreenBeard@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I would say it's a pretty big stretch to describe most of the porn out there as "Healthy" though I know quite a few people have attempted to move in that direction. Still, your point has merit. People masturbate, that is normal and healthy, and they WILL find ways to enhance that experience. This refusal to accept normal, healthy human sexuality is sick and self-harming.

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

As a society nobody wants to have that conversation because the mere acknowledgment that teens are sexually aware is encouraging "grooming".

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

I was super into porn from like the age of 13. Did it benefit me? Not really. Did it turn me into a sex maniac? Not hardly. I even broke up with a girl because she wanted to "enhance the relationship" and I didn't want to get physically attached to someone I wasn't really in love with.

[–] starblursd@lemmy.zip 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

And their kids are not my problem. I had a vasectomy I did my part. I don't want the responsibility of raising and protecting a kid so I'm not having one.. The government's part if anything is to invest in educating parents on how to protect their kids online in the modern age, and use the slew of parental controls available on every platform. If you're going to buy your kid a $1,000 device with internet access, you should probably like actually monitor what they do with it. The same as you do. If you have alcohol in the house or firearms in the house or anything else that's potentially dangerous in the hands children.

[–] mabeledo@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

I see. Since we’re involving the government here, how about they take these children from their parents, then? After all, what you describe is a spectacular parenting failure: they give their kids the tools to access porn sites and leave them unchecked.

[–] Dookieman12@piefed.social 5 points 2 weeks ago

Nice rage bait

[–] realityisascammer@lemmy.ml 32 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This doesn't solve anything. People are going to find alternatives and some will be way worse than these websites.

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It solves the problem of women earning a living on their own terms.

/s-not-s

[–] realityisascammer@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

Indeed.

[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Will the Brits realize that the times when they were a world spanning empire are over before they are the laughing stock of the rest of the civilized world?

[–] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They kinda already are.

[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 7 points 2 weeks ago

I agree - their approach towards the rest of the world is so very entitled that no person outside of that state can take them seriously anymore. It's like they think that the world owes them something, while in reality the Brits have a pretty large amount of atonement in their todo list.

[–] monkeyman76@fedinsfw.app 16 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

"Age checks are no longer optional for porn sites in the UK," said George Lusty, director of enforcement at Ofcom.

[–] brokenwing@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 weeks ago

Lusty lol

[–] XLE@piefed.social 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If you think that's bad

In May, the regulator fined porn company YoungTek Solutions £600,000 for not putting systems in place to make sure UK visitors were over the age of 18.

[–] HeyJoe@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

These fines feel bigger than the ones we fine oil or other huge corporations for actually doing awful things...

[–] XLE@piefed.social 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I was thinking about how maybe they should change their name before they got hit with the fine, but that too.

Twitter has a wealth of information on CSAM produced through their website and AI, and they've been fighting law enforcement tooth and nail on that. No fines in sight.

[–] Coldcell@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Fighting tooth and nail?

[–] anytimesoon@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's an expression that means fighting very hard to get something

[–] XLE@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

I botched my comment when I initially wrote it, the confusion is all due to me

[–] QuantumSpecter@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago

Note: Fapello has blocked people from The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.