The United Kingdom will soon start rolling out ID checks for citizens to access pornography. Breitbart reports:
A lawyer claimed the United Kingdom could soon force users to provide valid ID if they want to access social media sites, as the U.K. implements mandatory ID checks on porn users starting in April.
From April 1, Internet users in the U.K. will be required to submit a valid form of ID, such as a driving license or passport, in order to access pornographic websites.
“When someone first clicks on a site, they’ll be asked to register with AgeID and verify their age using a Mobile SMS, credit card, passport, or driving licence,” reported the Sun. “Users will then be able to use their AgeID username or password to access all porn sites that use AgeID – though some may use different age verification systems.”
“As well as registering with AgeID, Brits will also be able to access porn sites using a voucher you can buy from high street shops,” the Sun explained, adding that each voucher “will cost £4.99 for use on a single device, or £8.99 for use across multiple devices.”
Although blocking pornography is not objectionable in and of itself, this method could easily be replicated for any materials that the government would want censored, including conservative content.
No coincidence that this and other heavy handed, Orwellian government policies followed banning of firearms.
“As well as registering with AgeID, Brits will also be able to access porn sites using a voucher you can buy from high street shops,” the Sun explained, adding that each voucher “will cost £4.99 for use on a single device, or £8.99 for use across multiple devices.”
In other words, the idea is NOT to limit access by age but to create a “Porn Tax ” of
£4.99 for use on a single device, or £8.99 for use across multiple devices.” .
We have too many bureaucrats everywhere (at enormous taxpayer expense) checking on citizens as if they were guilty until proven innocent. UK is entering very dangerous territory and UK citizens had best wake up fast.
Or under a different government, liberal content, right?
it is a liberal government in the uk
I do not look at online access to pornography as an essential liberty. How about parents being free from the consequences of their children having unfettered access to porn? This is a garbage issue and therefore, should not be served on a dinner plate.
It should be the other way around-they should require ID from people who Make Porn.
Not a bad idea.
I might have missed it but how are they going to protect the ID of the people using these Porn sites? I don’t think that all people who visit porn sites are perverts but a person might not want the whole world to know that they visited one of these sites. Banks, Stores and even Government websites have been hacked and millions of ID’s have been stolen, what safe guards are in place to protect a person’s name and driver’s license number from being stolen? Is this a government controlled website where people are supposed to register or will each individual site store the user’s data? Far too many questions and far too few answers.
“First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out – because I was not a Jew.
Then they cane for the communists and I did not speak out – because I was not a communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me – and there was no one left to speak out for me.”
Pastor Martin Niemoeller (viften of the Nazis)
[Typo: *Victim of the Nazis (Mr. SpelCzech’s version be Damned)
I am all for liberty and if someones idea of liberty is to view porn, so be it. We have too damned many people getting afraid of their own shadows so they let others dictate to them what they can do, think and say. Stand up and grow a pair people!
Porn addiction is serious, but as Benjamin Franklin told us uppity colonialists (cousins across the pond), those who’d trade essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.