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Want to watch porn in Britain? Get your passport ready (www.politico.eu)

submitted 9 months ago by psychothumbs@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 76 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Research indicates younger ids who stumble across porn accidentally can find it shocking and disturbing although the majority of young people surveyed in a 2020 British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) report said this didn't impact them in the long term.

Nobody is visiting porn sites accidentally anymore. This ain't the 90s. They don't pop up in any mainstream search engines by default.

Unless this includes not only porn sites but any site that might potentially host porn (like Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, or really any site with user-uploaded content), this argument is invalid (as well as specious).

[–] camr_on@lemmy.world 19 points 9 months ago (4 children)

I imagine that the kids of today are spending more time on one platform like Reddit or tiktok, so it becomes more up to the platforms to keep sexual content separate. I know it used to be easy to go on r/all and accidentally see porn, not sure if that's a thing anymore

[–] darkkite@lemmy.ml 10 points 9 months ago

reddit requires you to go out of your way to enable nsfw. tiktok is pretty heavy handed in moderation, but i still get some spam videos of nsfw content

[–] XioR112@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Reddit exlcluded porn from showing up in all

[–] Deello@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

Same thing happens here. I was scrolling c/All at the doctor's office and there it is.

[–] AzureRT@reddthat.com 2 points 9 months ago

Kids are mostly on tiktok

[+] gaifux@lemmy.world -34 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Wow, what a boldly inaccurate take. How can you possibly believe this? Do you never interact with children? Just a few weeks ago a teacher gave out a URL that had a typo in it to my nephew's middle school class and sure enough it was a porn site. In 2024 no less. IT didn't even block the site. Porn is far too easy to find online inadvertently, case in point turn off safe search on any popular search engine. LOL "nobody is visiting porn sites inadvertently these days", thanks- needed that today lol

[–] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Turning off safe search requires explicit action, so I wouldn't consider that accidental.

Interesting point about typos though.

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

I typically have safesearch turned off and I recently had DuckDuckGo give me porn I wasn't looking for for two image search queries (Google did not give me porn):

Tiny spy camera (I actually wanted images of cameras)
Ficken liquor ("Ficken" is German for "to fuck"; I was looking for images of the alcoholic beverage so named)

Of course, I've been on the internet for a while and was neither shocked nor offended.

[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I’m gonna call bullshit. I want to know the two urls. It was a few weeks ago so this should be easy information to get.

[–] Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's plausible. Could have been a low-effort typosquatting site loaded with porn ads.

[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

I’ll bet you a dollar it never happened though.

[–] Wolf_359@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I'm not saying it never happens, but it's not a super common occurrence.

And even if it is, locking down the entire internet and monitoring people in an Orwellian fashion isn't the government's job.

What happened back in the day when kids walked in on their parents doing the deed? What did the parents do when their child snuck a passage of Shakespeare and read all the filthy jokes he wrote?

Oh, they spoke to the kids and guided them through a normal part of life?

I have a son. I would like for him to not see graphic images on the Internet. But when he does, I will explain to him that human beings have sex (which is why he exists). I will tell him that sometimes people like to watch videos about it because it feels good to them. I will explain to him that it's fake, just like the action movies and violence he sees on TV. I will tell him it's nothing like that in reality and I will explain to him that he's not ready to see that material yet.

Fascists always gain control by offering "safety." Ironically, they're more dangerous than the thing they claim to protect you from.

Yeah, making a government list of porn watchers with their watch history available is 100% going to be abused. It will not turn out well.

[–] vox@sopuli.xyz 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

lol iirc there was a case where a domain name for some website expired, so hundreds of ukrainian language textbooks had urls pointing to a porn website. it was all over the local news

(also the publisher tried to get the website blocked (which doesn't make any sense)???)