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[redsnowbunny]

If this happens to any of us brits, we all know it's Comrade stalin Starmers doing.

However Tor Browser will easily bypass it as it has a free builtin VPN.

Brave browser may also work.

(Trust me, im a network faults analyst / engineer for the UKs largest Internet provider)

I'not in the Uk , but curious about that. Would Opera work too since it has a vpn built-in? So we can make a suggestion post for all our friends in the UK.

I did not know about this "new bigotry" wave in the Uk. what would be the purpose? In a world where by looking at the news you can't escape hate, violence and war, is sex and pleasure the "big enemy"?

 

[deft]

If this happens to any of us brits, we all know it's Comrade stalin Starmers doing.

Nothing to do with him. The Online Safety Bill was raised under the last bunch of bell-ends.

 

[Mei5ter]

I did not know about this "new bigotry" wave in the Uk. what would be the purpose? In a world where by looking at the news you can't escape hate, violence and war, is sex and pleasure the "big enemy"?

I'm not aware we have a 'new bigotry' wave of that kind in the UK, whatever else may be going right or wrong here

At the moment, if you log on to Pornhub, you just click "I am over 18" and you're in. The Online Safety bill will require Pornhub to take reasonable steps to ensure that anyone clicking "I am over 18" actually is. It's not censoring content or stopping anyone who genuinely is of appropriate age from accessing it.

 

[redsnowbunny]

I'm not aware we have a 'new bigotry' wave of that kind in the UK, whatever else may be going right or wrong here

At the moment, if you log on to Pornhub, you just click "I am over 18" and you're in. The Online Safety bill will require Pornhub to take reasonable steps to ensure that anyone clicking "I am over 18" actually is. It's not censoring content or stopping anyone who genuinely is of appropriate age from accessing it.

As is over here too.
It is generally incumbent on the families to apply filters and blocks to the various pieces of technology you own and give permission to your kids to use. It is a parent responsibility to control and teach and educate.

My own point of view, is that if such extensive preemptive precaution only concern porn and sex-themed content and not ,for example, the super horrifying and uber-violent videogames, it is Bigotry, indeed, of the highest degree.
Porn is never educational, I agree, but it is a way easier target... it helps politics to gain a bit of consensus, but these measures will prove highly ineffective on every front.

P.s.
I was not aware of the fact that the E U wants to implement something similar.
So consider my comment on the Bigotry wave, to extend to all of EU too.

 

[Mei5ter]

Say It Ain’t So…
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On Friday, there’s a possibility that many Litsters in UK will not be able to access the Lit website due to some restrictions on sites with adult content. Maybe it won’t affect Lit at all. Maybe VPN can be a solution to this issue. Time will tell. But if it does, a huge section of our Lit community will suddenly be missing.

Most likely, you can find various ways to connect with those you’re close with here off of Lit. Or the Discord Lit at Night is another viable option to consider. But, neither of those will replace the original Lit.

My question is, what makes Lit LIT for you? Why have you stayed, or keep coming back? What are some lessons about yourself or others that you learned here? (This isn’t an invitation to call out anyone specifically. I mean this in a very general sense). Are you, or would you be happy if Lit just ended or was taken from you? Can you see any up sides from not being able to visit this site anymore?

Whether you are among those awaiting the new legislation to take effect, think about how you found this site. Looking back over your time here, what stands out to you as memorable? Is what you remember the most the reason you came here in the first place?

Years ago, I remember reading something in a girlfriend's Cosmopolitan about Porn And Why Your Boyfriend Loves It. A female journalist had gone out and bought a few porn magazines, read them with evident distaste, and written an article to report back her findings. Basically, these were that porn was brain-dead, misogynistic, degrading, patriarchal, exploitative bullshit. Which, in fairness, it often is.

But one phrase stuck with me. "What's going on in men's heads when they look at this? Nothing much." Because that isn't true. And Lit, at its best, exemplifies why it isn't.

Anyway. Back to brain-dead, misogynistic, degrading, patriarchal, exploitative bullshit. I decided that I didn't really want to be complicit in that, thank you. But I still liked looking at pictures of girls not wearing much. How to resolve this dilemma?

Happily, I was born English, and so compromise and hypocrisy are the two strands forming the double helix of my DNA. And so...Ampics! If a woman chose to share pictures of herself, completely willingly, for men like me to perv? Surely that was okay, wasn't it? I decided that it was, albeit feeling a bit like someone who was asking whether his cocaine was FairTrade.

There are lots of ampics sites out there, and I'm not going to tell you which I ended up joining. But I quickly realised that there was another fundamental difference between amateur and commercial porn. Even if I could ask a model on a commercial porn site why she was posing nude with her legs open - which I couldn't - the answer would likely be "$250".

On an ampics site, however, things are completely different, because half the point is that you can talk to the posters there. And because I'm me, and I was chatty and curious, that's exactly what I did. And it was that - the ability to talk openly, intimately, explicitly and sexily with people, and share and discuss the kind of things it would have been impossible to talk about with my offline friends, which eventually brought me to Lit.

Lit is a terrible website. It's something built in the late 1990s (there is still a Green Guy link on the front page!) which has had various other boards and forums MacGyvered onto it since. Even before the changes earlier this year, the Ampics side of the site was still just threads with pic links posted in them. Thumbnail galleries? Categories? A search feature? Nope. Just 2,197 pages of mostly expired links, folks. But that has also been Lit's superpower. People who want tons of porn mindlessly delivered to them in industrial quantities go somewhere else. Lit is for people who still want to take a little time and think about their smut. Which is why I have stayed as long as I have, and why I have been lucky enough to meet some genuinely amazing people here. Lit rewards the kind of people who will embrace its quirks. It is those people who have made Lit...Lit. And it is those people who have kept me here.

Unfortunately, both Lit itself and the online world it occupies are changing, whether we like it or not. I'm tired of alts. I'm tired of fake profiles. I'm tired of catfish. I'm tired of pics being downloaded without consent. I'm tired of stories being one-bombed without any redress. I'm tired of the Politics threads being busier than the main part of the site. I'm tired of vague posts in 17 different passive-aggressive BS threads. I'm tired of seeing a new Litster and thinking "Who were they before?" rather than being excited to see a new face. I'm too tired to want to pump energy into posting here and hope that what I get back relates to what I put in.

I'm tired. Lit feels tired too. I wouldn't now miss being here - much - if I were barred. But even if I can't log in here again, I hope it perks up for the rest of you.

 

[Cat]

Years ago, I remember reading something in a girlfriend's Cosmopolitan about Porn And Why Your Boyfriend Loves It. A female journalist had gone out and bought a few porn magazines, read them with evident distaste, and written an article to report back her findings. Basically, these were that porn was brain-dead, misogynistic, degrading, patriarchal, exploitative bullshit. Which, in fairness, it often is.

But one phrase stuck with me. "What's going on in men's heads when they look at this? Nothing much." Because that isn't true. And Lit, at its best, exemplifies why it isn't.

Anyway. Back to brain-dead, misogynistic, degrading, patriarchal, exploitative bullshit. I decided that I didn't really want to be complicit in that, thank you. But I still liked looking at pictures of girls not wearing much. How to resolve this dilemma?

Happily, I was born English, and so compromise and hypocrisy are the two strands forming the double helix of my DNA. And so...Ampics! If a woman chose to share pictures of herself, completely willingly, for men like me to perv? Surely that was okay, wasn't it? I decided that it was, albeit feeling a bit like someone who was asking whether his cocaine was FairTrade.

There are lots of ampics sites out there, and I'm not going to tell you which I ended up joining. But I quickly realised that there was another fundamental difference between amateur and commercial porn. Even if I could ask a model on a commercial porn site why she was posing nude with her legs open - which I couldn't - the answer would likely be "$250".

On an ampics site, however, things are completely different, because half the point is that you can talk to the posters there. And because I'm me, and I was chatty and curious, that's exactly what I did. And it was that - the ability to talk openly, intimately, explicitly and sexily with people, and share and discuss the kind of things it would have been impossible to talk about with my offline friends, which eventually brought me to Lit.

Lit is a terrible website. It's something built in the late 1990s (there is still a Green Guy link on the front page!) which has had various other boards and forums MacGyvered onto it since. Even before the changes earlier this year, the Ampics side of the site was still just threads with pic links posted in them. Thumbnail galleries? Categories? A search feature? Nope. Just 2,197 pages of mostly expired links, folks. But that has also been Lit's superpower. People who want tons of porn mindlessly delivered to them in industrial quantities go somewhere else. Lit is for people who still want to take a little time and think about their smut. Which is why I have stayed as long as I have, and why I have been lucky enough to meet some genuinely amazing people here. Lit rewards the kind of people who will embrace its quirks. It is those people who have made Lit...Lit. And it is those people who have kept me here.

Unfortunately, both Lit itself and the online world it occupies are changing, whether we like it or not. I'm tired of alts. I'm tired of fake profiles. I'm tired of catfish. I'm tired of pics being downloaded without consent. I'm tired of stories being one-bombed without any redress. I'm tired of the Politics threads being busier than the main part of the site. I'm tired of vague posts in 17 different passive-aggressive BS threads. I'm tired of seeing a new Litster and thinking "Who were they before?" rather than being excited to see a new face. I'm too tired to want to pump energy into posting here and hope that what I get back relates to what I put in.

I'm tired. Lit feels tired too. I wouldn't now miss being here - much - if I were barred. But even if I can't log in here again, I hope it perks up for the rest of you.

Thank you, for your thoughts, your quirkiness, your very English way of seeing things, your calm and reason.

And just, thank you for having been a part of Lit, making it just a bit better for all of us.

Also.. I could not have said it better, the "I am tired" part.
Some day, soon, when my country decide how all of its citizens are going to identify themselves on the internet, I might let the tiredness win.

 

[Mei5ter]

Thank you, for your thoughts, your quirkiness, your very English way of seeing things, your calm and reason.

And just, thank you for having been a part of Lit, making it just a bit better for all of us.

That is an incredibly kind compliment, and especially coming from you. Thank you.

Also.. I could not have said it better, the "I am tired" part.
Some day, soon, when my country decide how all of its citizens are going to identify themselves on the internet

And this...

I might let the tiredness win.

...sums it up perfectly.

Or, in the words of the Bible: "It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks."

 

[snexxer]

Nothing to do with him. The Online Safety Bill was raised under the last bunch of bell-ends.

The original online safety act of 2023 was the last government, but the 2 amendments 17th March and 25th July, are from the current government.

They are all bell-ends in my opinion.

 

[Love_Is_Blonde]

Check In Here!
I’m keeping my fingers crossed that the stars will align and all of you UKers will be able to log in as normal. In fact, if you are able to log in as usual, please check in here and let us know! You might even be so kind as to post a picture of yourself (your choice which thread) with a link here. Just so we can take attendance. Also because we will be thrilled to see you!

 

[hotwords229_A]

You might even be so kind as to post a picture of yourself (your choice which thread) with a link here.

Now I’m wondering if this was all a ruse to see our British friends naked.
You don’t work for Parliment, do you?

 

[deft]

Still here so far!

https://imgur.com/a/LXygYB4

 

[Wand3rlust]

I'm still here....

 

[deft]

I'm still here....

Waheeeey!

 

[deft]

It's started...

 

[Cat]

Denmark says good morning.

 

[deft]

Denmark says good morning.

Denmark is looking wonderful this fine morning!

 

[snexxer]

Here...

 

[Cogan]

I'm still here....

Denmark says good morning.

You two just turned a good morning into great!

 

[Love_Is_Blonde]

Now I’m wondering if this was all a ruse to see our British friends naked.
You don’t work for Parliment, do you?

Who me??? I.. I’d never…

https://imgur.com/a/tdxkNNB

 

[Love_Is_Blonde]

Still here so far!

https://imgur.com/a/LXygYB4

Hooray!! And yowza!

I'm still here....

Here and scintillating. SO happy you are here.

Denmark says good morning.

I mean…over the moon happy to see you!

Here...

Yay I am thrilled that you’re here! I keep clicking your emojis ..;-)

You two just turned a good morning into great!

They did!! Thank you for checking in too! Happy you are here!



It got extra hot in here!!

And I’m extra happy to see you check in. Your attendance has been noted!

 

[redsnowbunny]

Now I’m wondering if this was all a ruse to see our British friends naked.
You don’t work for Parliment, do you?

This is a great ruse, then… please UK unite in sending us proof of… presence!

 

[Love_Is_Blonde]

This is a great ruse, then… please UK unite in sending us proof of… presence!

We need some theme music.

What are some songs that remind you of the UK?

 

[Love_Is_Blonde]

UK theme music

 

[hotwords229_A]

What are some songs that remind you of the UK?

Someone is going to say it. It might as well be me.

 

[Mei5ter]

Well. This has all been a bit of an anticlimax, really