The whole point of these age verification laws being in the way they are is to allow the state to ban pornography without facing the charge of banning it because they're written and implemented in such a way that it makes it impossible for such websites to continue to function in that state. Even if they went ahead with it, it would be long before "hackers" leaked all the users of that site as a "perverts database" as a final measure to deter people from going to those sites.
Next year, the UK will introduce even stricter age verification than being implemented in US states where the favoured requirement will not just be Government photo ID (passport or driving licence) but also live, ongoing facial recognition. And the criteria for who will need to comply will be any site or service that is not "safe for kids". On the basis that they need to see who is accessing a website at any time in the same way you're in person when showing ID for age restricted products in a store. It also stops an adult showing ID and then handing their device over to a child.
Consider this in the case of digital ID. It's totally possible that this process becomes two way, where the government can see everytime you show ID and to who.
Blackmail seems quite possible, or even just saying that someone was accessing horrific porn and everyone taking their word because it's the government.
In the UK, we've had a scandal involving a Tory donor that happened in 2019. They waited until now when the new definition of extremism was announced for that to come out. It would not be out of the realm of possibility for a Government in power to log the web access to certain websites and then use that to discredit an opponent when the time comes.
The whole point of these age verification laws being in the way they are is to allow the state to ban pornography without facing the charge of banning it because they're written and implemented in such a way that it makes it impossible for such websites to continue to function in that state. Even if they went ahead with it, it would be long before "hackers" leaked all the users of that site as a "perverts database" as a final measure to deter people from going to those sites.
Next year, the UK will introduce even stricter age verification than being implemented in US states where the favoured requirement will not just be Government photo ID (passport or driving licence) but also live, ongoing facial recognition. And the criteria for who will need to comply will be any site or service that is not "safe for kids". On the basis that they need to see who is accessing a website at any time in the same way you're in person when showing ID for age restricted products in a store. It also stops an adult showing ID and then handing their device over to a child.
Consider this in the case of digital ID. It's totally possible that this process becomes two way, where the government can see everytime you show ID and to who.
Blackmail seems quite possible, or even just saying that someone was accessing horrific porn and everyone taking their word because it's the government.
In the UK, we've had a scandal involving a Tory donor that happened in 2019. They waited until now when the new definition of extremism was announced for that to come out. It would not be out of the realm of possibility for a Government in power to log the web access to certain websites and then use that to discredit an opponent when the time comes.