France to introduce controversial age verification system for adult websites

Re:France to introduce controversial age verification system... by Softcadbury on Friday July 10, 2020 @05:48AM (#23789754)

This will never work, there are too many websites and too many ways of getting around this limitation.

BUT, there are plenty of parental control softwares for computers and phones, I think this is the only valid solution. So instead of passing some stupid laws, we just have to teach parents.

Otherwise, it's like trying to replace all knifes by platic ones; no we let parents teach kids it's dangerous.

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Re:France to introduce controversial age verification system... by enitihas on Friday July 10, 2020 @06:24AM (#23789953)

I don't think people making these laws care of 1-5 % people using a workaround. If 95% people are blocked, I think they are good.

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Re:France to introduce controversial age verification system... by randomchars on Friday July 10, 2020 @06:31AM (#23789993)

I think you get the percentages wrong: 95% of kids who want to watch porn will easily find a workaround.

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Re:France to introduce controversial age verification system... by enitihas on Friday July 10, 2020 @06:37AM (#23790058)

Unless 95% of kids can get a VPN, I doubt how kids can find a workaround for SNI based blocks.

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Re:France to introduce controversial age verification system... by Nextgrid on Friday July 10, 2020 @07:41AM (#23790499)

There would be informal distribution networks via groups on various messaging apps or general-purpose cloud storage services. This might spell the end for the major "tube" sites if they can't make enough ad revenue, but this is definitely not going to be the end of porn.

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Re:France to introduce controversial age verification system... by randomchars on Friday July 10, 2020 @06:55AM (#23790183)

There are quite a few free VPN apps, so getting porn would be only one more step away.

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Re:France to introduce controversial age verification system... by loulou24 on Friday July 10, 2020 @11:00AM (#23792148)

And pornographers will also find a workaround to reach there addicts... euh... audience.

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