Age Verification

Does Literotica qualify as "pornography" under UK law?

Under US law, I don't think the written content qualifies as porn. I'm not sure if the visual content here would qualify as porn. Some of it might, but the Site has restrictions on the degree of explicitness of visual content that might take it outside the scope of porn.
 
Fascinating. I am curious how exactly they intend to make these verifications work. Are they seriously going to ask for IDs, bank account data, facial checks, and whatnot when accessing a porn site? Who (among the adults) in their right mind is going to offer their private information when consuming porn? Anonymity is the basic premise of any porn consumer.
 
Does Literotica qualify as "pornography" under UK law?

Under US law, I don't think the written content qualifies as porn. I'm not sure if the visual content here would qualify as porn. Some of it might, but the Site has restrictions on the degree of explicitness of visual content that might take it outside the scope of porn.
There is very pornographic pictures in the other bit of this forum?
 
There is very pornographic pictures in the other bit of this forum?

I think that's an open question. The site allows illustrations that, if they were actual photographs, would qualify as porn. The site as far as I know limits photographic and video depictions of explicit sex. I'm not sure that the content here would qualify as porn. I emphasize "I'm not sure." I haven't investigated the issue in any depth.
 
It should be highly effective at teaching 12-year-old boys how to use VPNs, Tor, etc.

I agree, in general, with this. It's a medieval approach to a 21st century world. The horse has left the barn, and no matter how zealously you watch the door from this point forward, the horse is still gone.
 
Does Literotica qualify as "pornography" under UK law?

Under US law, I don't think the written content qualifies as porn. I'm not sure if the visual content here would qualify as porn. Some of it might, but the Site has restrictions on the degree of explicitness of visual content that might take it outside the scope of porn.
It has restrictions on the story side that are not honored on the forum side. I've wondered about that.
 
Fascinating. I am curious how exactly they intend to make these verifications work. Are they seriously going to ask for IDs, bank account data, facial checks, and whatnot when accessing a porn site? Who (among the adults) in their right mind is going to offer their private information when consuming porn? Anonymity is the basic premise of any porn consumer.
There were news stories yesterday about such measures being taken (or attempted) in the U.S. I wish I could remember the details.
 
I think that's an open question. The site allows illustrations that, if they were actual photographs, would qualify as porn. The site as far as I know limits photographic and video depictions of explicit sex. I'm not sure that the content here would qualify as porn. I emphasize "I'm not sure." I haven't investigated the issue in any depth.
There are pictures (or were??) on the forum side that are about as explicit as you can get. Definitely not conforming to rules on the story side.
 
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There are pictures (or were??) on the forum side that are about as explicity as you can get. Definitely not conforming to rules on the story side.
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Titties shall prevail!
 
They could just demand a thousand-word essay on what it was like to grow up in the 70s, 80s or 90s. I reckon that would cover most of us here, and anyone below the age of 18 trying to sneak past would probably get caught in the AI filter.
 
The obvious technical way would be to have a service that sells a verification token against a credit card, which is available before going to any porn site. Plus, I suppose, penalties if the token is misused. But that would require a lot of coordination and so I don't see it happening ever. I think any verification is going to be relatively easy to subvert, even without VPNs.
 
There's something wrong here, having to do with abandoning the expectation that parents control their children. That's where the creativity should go. Pretty soon it will no longer be the case that kids are twice as educated about technology as their parents. Soon those educated kids will be the parents, able to apply checks, take away the phones at bed time, etc.
 
Here we go again. Only with added hilarity of the idea of using "estimated age verification"! I give that one about a week before being challenged on grounds of racial or other inequality, or just being plain unworkable.
 
There's something wrong here, having to do with abandoning the expectation that parents control their children. That's where the creativity should go. Pretty soon it will no longer be the case that kids are twice as educated about technology as their parents. Soon those educated kids will be the parents, able to apply checks, take away the phones at bed time, etc.
Except that consumer technology will continue to evolve, and kids will always adopt it before their parents.
 
Pretty soon it will no longer be the case that kids are twice as educated about technology as their parents
This is already the case. On average, anyone born in this century is basically clueless about computers, because all they use are TiVoized devices like smartphones. Zoomers and boomers are amusingly similar in this regard.
 
This is already the case. On average, anyone born in this century is basically clueless about computers, because all they use are TiVoized devices like smartphones. Zoomers and boomers are amusingly similar in this regard.
I went to Urban Dictionary to find out what TiVoize meant. I was confronted with a plethora of Acronym links, which, in turn, presented me with more acronym links.

Can you tell me what you intended to convey?
 
There were news stories yesterday about such measures being taken (or attempted) in the U.S. I wish I could remember the details.
Yeah, I think they're doing that in like Louisiana and/or Florida, maybe others, and pornhub is saying they just won't be available in those states because they don't consider any of the options for uploading IDs to be secure, or something like that.
 
I went to Urban Dictionary to find out what TiVoize meant. I was confronted with a plethora of Acronym links, which, in turn, presented me with more acronym links.

Can you tell me what you intended to convey?
Locked-down devices that can’t be poked and fiddled with the same way PCs can. The exact meaning of the term is rather technical but that’s essentially what I meant.
 
Yes, except I suspect that none of you ninnies had to ski to school uphill both ways like we did here in Finland, shooing wolves with one ski pole and moose with the other.
Where I grew up, the wolves rode the moose!

(Not really, I grew up in pig and sweetcorn country.)
 
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