UK internet age checks have boosted rogue adult sites, says Pornhub
Pornhub says the UK's age verification rules have driven users to unregulated adult sites, undermining the law's intent. The company claims the checks, intended to protect minors, have instead boosted rogue platforms that lack safeguards, according to a Financial Times report.
The age checks have boosted rogue adult sites.
- WarmWash
I think the most damning thing about porn hysteria is that society as a whole ran the experiment of an open internet for 30 years, long enough for a full generation of people to be fully raised on it and -none- of the things the anti-porn crowd cried about came true. In fact things actually moved in the opposite direction. The whole think is unsurprisingly just as bunk as the hysteria over violent video games and "demonic" music.
It seems plain old social media is the actual damaging thing to come from the internet.
- mattrighetti
Probably boosted Mullvad’s ARR as well
- everdrive
This outcome was always obvious. The internet is too big. You can degrade the sites that are legitimate enough to follow the law, but that's just a drop in the bucket in the sea of porn.
- tom1337
And something similar will happen with chat control I'm afraid. Make every public messenger scan all messages to "protect the children" and those people that would be affected by these scanners will simply find another way to communicate (or build their own E2EE chat app like EncroChat in the past) and the only ones that suffer are the normal people who are now being surveilled and with no real reason.
- somenameforme