The fine includes £450,000 for lack of age checks to prevent children from seeing pornography.

The fine includes £450,000 for lack of age checks to prevent children from seeing pornography.

  • P00ptart@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    7 hours ago

    Kids always learn how to get around those checks. Even back in my day when there were very few sites that had checks, I quickly found my way around them, and for a millennial I’m considered barely computer litterate. I’m certainly no hacker by any means. I won’t even pirate shit, cause I don’t trust myself not to fuck something up. Like the whole ID thing? Id just grab dads ID if it doesn’t require a credit card.

    • Iconoclast@feddit.ukEnglish
      1·
      41 minutes ago

      My parents’ porn VHS collection didn’t ask for my age and neither did my grand-dad’s titty magazines hidden in the tractor shed. Internet wasn’t even a thing for most people then yet I had already seen plenty of porn before I turned 10.

      It clearly did affect me and I don’t deny that but I doubt it would’ve made much of a difference had I have to wait untill I was 18 for the flood gates to open. Nobody would’ve seen me for months if that was the case.

    • fonix232@fedia.io
      8·
      5 hours ago

      If you’re a millenial then practically every single porn site you would’ve visited “back in your day” would’ve had, at most, an “are you 18 or older?” popup as age verification…