And what do you think happens when big platforms have to introduce age verification? People will just go to smaller unregulated sites which may inadvertently be worse because of malware risks and unregulated content. You just can't take the porn out of the internet, people always find a way

Won't someone think of the children

Fuck this

And so it begins. How long until Lemmy will be forced to verify age?

And that's how it begins. Soon they'll start asking everyone to provide ID to access the internet.

Minors accessing porn on their own is not a real problem, and hurts no one.

Hey EU (and all other regulatory agencies interested in “protecting the children”), how about you provide information to parents on how they can setup their own blocking tools, like DNS. You can do this for free, today, right now and actually get the results you supposedly want.

Despite stating in their Terms of Services that their services are for adults only, all four platforms allow minors to access their platforms by a simple click confirming they are over 18.

That's weird, I wonder why they did that? They've blocked traffic entirely from age-gated states. But in the EU they're taking a stand of some sort?

They did the best they should have to do.

The real crime here is while the EU is trying every angle to error your privacy, that time is not being spent on real issues. You are being sold out by the very people put into positions of power to serve you. If the data supported their goals, I would be there with them, but the data is very clear on the matter and the it indicates we are in for big issues with all these IDs being stored by centralized targets.

porn should be behind age of consent not behind 18; being allowed to fuck someone but not see media of sexual things is total bullshit

and not as a law. this is not the government's job at all. prohibition doesn't work. the only solution is proper sex ed

just because it's harmful to the self (according to dubious claims) doesn't mean that people should not have this freedom. people's freedom is more important than prevention of them harming themselves.

First they came for the porn...

So yeah tor doesnt require a ID... So have fun I suppose? And be careful

Didn't know about Stripchat. Sooo … thanks, EU?

What a second. Pornhub is in US. This is like UK trying to force 4chan into age verification

If kids are willfully seeking porn, then it ain't anybody's business to stop them. Exploring and enjoying your sexuality is part of growing up, and "moral" whackjobs shouldn't get to decide how people grow up.

Protecting the kids should be about providing useful information, contraception, and official aid against predators.

Why do children have to ruin everything?

I’m reading and odd headline about the EU and wonder if it’s the Commission again. Then I‘m reading EU Commission and think lobbyist groups, foreign think tanks and the filthy rich.

That's not how the internet works.

The onus is on the users. The parents are the ones who have to figure out a way to ensure what their kid's devices can access, or that they are educated enough not to seek it.

I am once again asking why a non-European website (pornhub) should have to care.

If you want to censor stuff so bad, then hop to it. Why are you asking people outside your borders censor themselves?

Let's do a hot take though - zoomers or whatever newer gen is are so out of natural touch and wired into their doom scroll that they won't even bother looking for porn.