The above image is all us folk in the UK see when you do, and if we try to use a VPN + incognito, we get this:
403 means forbidden, so the message is disingenuous.
They must have put some effort into block lists for VPN servers. Even if it works for some of us, it’s not worth it.
For more information on this, see this article: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gzxv5gy3qo
Do you actually care? Because I don’t especially feel like following up a question apparently in defence of some belligerent oaf who doesn’t bother reading. But you’re not the same person so maybe you’re just picking me up and aren’t so interested in their line.
I don’t understand why a meme posting website should be required to check your ID, and I’m trying to understand why someone thinks it’s a good idea to require such insanity.
It’s not about checking id, it’s about asking for a users age at all.
And, if there were an unobtrusive, safe way to prevent kids seeing hardcore porn (something which research suggests is probably not good) then it should apply to places uniformly. Calling it a meme website is kinda skirting the issue of whether it has that content. It doesn’t really, but it used to, and it was a meme website the whole while.
You’re operating under the assumption that putting an “are you old enough?” checkbox on a website would ever change the behavior of a child. That’s completely unrealistic and disconnected from reality. Perhaps if children need to have a controlled exposure to the internet, it is the parents’ responsibility to foster a safe environment and monitor the child. You know, since that actually does something.
I’m not?
But since part of this controversy is children’s accidental exposure to porn, collecting that information would be useful for that purpose wouldn’t it.
I don’t think I follow. How does collecting that information help reduce kids accessing porn? I just don’t see the link.
Because if someone ticks that box on a site that has such content, it can not be shown to them.
But in this case, I believe the purpose of collecting that data is to ensure that data processing that is legal under the GDPR for adults but not legal for minors is not done to minors’ data.
The vast, vast majority of users of an image embedding site do not have a user account and don’t even visit the site itself.
That’s true but besides the point. The possibility of hotlinking doesn’t obviate this kind of separation of user accounts.
You can embed pornhub videos too, does that mean that, on pornhub they shouldn’t have a basic "are you 18” age gate?