It's not that. We all watch porn, specially mir players, but it's against privacy to register every one who wants to watch something. What if you sign up to a gay site and homosexuality becomes illegal years later? I'm not saying it'll happen in the UK but you get the point.
You don't think everything you do, visit, search, is already recorded and cataloged? Geez.
I hate to break it to you, but they already know what kinky stuff gets you going.
At least have a realistic example, as I can't think of anything that would make this detrimental to one's wellbeing. Especially as they already made it clear that verification would be done through a government contracted body, and no information will be passed to the 'service' providers.
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There are so many loopholes that I don't even know why they are bothering at all, it's nothing more than a publicity stunt. the 'currently compliant' UK based sites are doing little more than a pop-up to ask if you are 18 yes/no... that's all this is.
Just to list a few they spelled out.
Not that anyone uses these for porn, I hope, but you get the point.
- Twitter, Reddit and image-sharing community Imgur, for example, will not be required to administer the scheme because they fall under an exception
where more than a third of a site or app's content must be pornographic to qualify.
- Likewise, any platform that hosts pornography but does not do so on a commercial basis - meaning it does not charge a fee or make money from adverts or other activity - will not be affected.
- it will remain legal to use virtual private networks (VPNs)
They also have zero influence over anything hosted outside the UK, of which I'd hazard a guess at being less than .1%. So unless the ISP's are going to block everything, yeah... that's not going to happen.