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We're too far past that point. A small, low cost, USB drive is 64 gigs. You can fit more porn on that drive in JPG form than the number of pages in a typical local branch library. The print age is long gone. Digital information is not restricted to the internet by a long shot. 
This is also true in places like China. When we hear stories about the people of China being completely ignorant of the outside world, it's nonsense. The official media channels are controlled but the people there can see anything that you or I can see if they are even moderately determined to do so. People may choose to follow the official narrative but it's simply not true that they have no options. Same with kids and porn or any other group and any other topic. If they want to see it, they can see it.
Ah yes alotof people born in 1904 January 26th is suddenly going to come out of the blue >

Eh, too far to scroll. I now just set 1 Jan 2000 >


2000

Okay, now I'm uncomfortable with my age. >

I was in a liquor store a few months ago… the cashier asked for my ID and exclaimed “oh, 19, you’re good.” I was like “huh?” She goes “born in 19-anything. You’re good. “ 
I walked out feeling a little less comfortable with my age, too. >

19-anything has been "good" for like 5 years now...
Edit- oh your probably american, 3 years then >

They asked his age, so def not european or latin american >

I mean that’s what they’ll say it’s for. Because nobody wants to let kids watch porn obviously. But in practice; 

People who want to visit these websites will have to install an application for government-licensed digital certification on their mobile phones to prove that they are at least 18 years old.

Yeah that’s very different to blocking access to porn for minors. >


People who want to visit these websites

"These websites" will be not only porn websites, but also other websites, falsely flagged as porn.
Legislators don't understand how Internet works.
Also it's easy to circumvent by just installing a TOR Browser. Or any random VPN/proxy. Or using a web proxy.
In Bulgaria we have a filter for copyright-infringing and gambling websites that wrongly block other sites using the same Cloudflare IP address. >

European union countries love to make stupid regulations that almost certainly backfire. Every kid in the country will know how to work a vpn, torrent, tor, and/or proxy by the end of the week. Meanwhile adults consuming legal content will have their data exposed to breaches >

UK tried to do a porn ban of their own a few years back
They only backpedaled because it was pointed out that VPN could get you through easily, so then they tried to ban VPNs
Then every business in the country collectively screamed (because VPNs have business applications as well, even banking) and told them to stop
That was the last we've heard of it since, but it'll probably crop up again in future by some old farts who don't know how the internet works >

It's a real problem that technology has so outpaced government legislation that they have no idea what to do with it. It's a problem on a lot of fronts.
Like what the fuck is some 70 year old senator going to know about anything to do with modern tech? >

Age is no excuse, plenty of old people have kept up with the changing world. >

It shouldn't be an excuse. I personally make sure to keep up with technology because I understand it's importance. But there's plenty of old people who didn't and don't want to understand new things. It's a shame but anyone who has elderly parents that don't know how to fucking work an ipad understands the struggle.
It's a shame, but it is the reality of the situation. >

Congress geezers have employees whose job it is to inform them about important stuff and make sure they understand why it matters. >

Right, but they also have lobbyists telling them why they should ignore the people trying to educate them about stuff and vote against people's interests. >

But in who’s interest it is here to hard block porn ? The mail VHS lobby is back ? >

Somehow, Steam will still need you to enter your birthday. >

Me everytime I go on the CSGO steam page: "for fuck sake steam, I have over 2000h logged in on this games, and I've spent thousands of euros on your platform for the past 10 fucking year buying other age restricted games and you are still fucking asking for my age??? I've owned this stupid game since 2014 and you still haven't figured out I'm of age????" 
But hey, it's the only complaint I have from steam, so I guess I'll let it pass. >

I assume you too are born on January 1st, maybe in 2000? >

Obviously I'm born in 1912 >

You go, Great-great-great-grandpa!  Keeping up with the times.  
Wait, do they have a horse and buggy simulator?!  
...probably will soon. >

Question is, what do they define as a pornographic site? Twitter openly allows porn, and if people have to visit a site to tweet it's going to kill the platform in the country. People by and large aren't going to install an app to upload pics of the meal they last ate with the caption "thinking of him." >

So does Reddit. Going to be a very tough implementation. >

It's not that tough for Reddit, just forbid the parts that ask you to confirm you're 18+. The job is already done, basically. You'll ban porn and gore, it's tO birds one stone for their pov >

How? With HTTPS as the standard, ISPs no longer know the URL being served, only the domain (and even that, not all the time). >

Idk how but they can! I was in Saudi Arabia (which blocks porn, but can be accessed with vpn), and Reddit really couldn't be searched for Porn nor NSFW subs. And Google in the country was forced to implement the "SafeSearch" feature which couldn't be turned off.
The only way to access Reddit porn was to post a subreddit's name in a random comment then click on it so it opens. Or to save a megathread that collected all the subs links. >

If you were indeed accessing over HTTPS, it likely there were extra certificate installed on the computer that allowed them to perform a MITM attack, or software that does something similar. It would not be possible without installing something on the user's computer  
Or reddit was complying with Saudi rules for traffic coming from Saudi Arabia >

Right, most people don't realize when they connect to wifi and it asks you to accept a certificate, that means the network is literally decrypting everything you are doing. They just see it as the "ok connect!" box. >

Yeah no certificates were asked other than in WiFis in public universities and gov workplaces. >


other than in WiFis in public universities and gov workplaces.

Those certificates remain with you tho even if you use a different network. >

Gonna go on a limb and assume the company that will have to implement this is linked to a sitting politician in some way. >

Not even that, this is just the government getting its citizens to install their app on citizens' phones so they can start collecting on them. No doubt this type of app would start being used to verify more than just porn before long. >

Even if it's just porn, I don't want to install an app that basically says "Yes, I use this device to watch porn", and I don't want to send data to the government saying "Yes, I watch porn". That's none of their fucking business. 
I feel like this is a band-aid to a problem that could be mostly solved through proper sex ed. "No kids, what you see in pornography isn't representative of real life". For fuck's sake, I had a sex ed course like that in the 90s. Talked about the issues with pornography, how it didn't represent real intercourse, how it was sexist, etc. >

Bold move to boost the IT education of the youth. Bravo! >

Pretty much. I doubt any teenager's gonna say "alright, guess I'm not watching porn anymore" and leave it at that. >

"I'll just use my NordVPN!" >

Push comes to shove I’m sure magazines will just get popular again