New UK Law and Elliquiy

[Strident]

Hi all.

A new UK law is due in next month requiring age verification for adult websites.

Will this effect elliquiy?

[Sara Nilsson]

Isn't E a social media site and therefor exempt, just like twitter and reddit?

[Orval Wintermute]

The implementation date has changed from 1st April to "soon" so expect it to be announced for 32nd of Nevembuary.

[Tamhansen]

I wish. It's coming. Luckily though:

"Age Verification applies only to commercial pornography providers, even if the content is offered for free. "

So no worries, Veks isn't going to have to check all British people for a token.

[Strident]

Thanks all. Still seems like the "thin end of the wedge" to me for net censorship...

[Lustful Bride]

I thought E would be unaffected due to it being based in the US.

[Silk]

I thought E would be unaffected due to it being based in the US.

E will be unaffected but the people in the UK might be having some issues with it. I find the bill to be really damn stupid and vague though.

[Mantis Shrimp Prime]

Remember, if you are under 18, you are NOT ALLOWED to see adult naked people.
Go ask your friends to get naked instead.

[Tamhansen]

Remember, if you are under 18, you are NOT ALLOWED to see adult naked people.
Go ask your friends to get naked instead.

Well, as long as they're over 16 it's perfectly legal to see them naked, as long as you're not recording. It's the opposite of many states in the US where you can't pay strangers for sex UNLESS you're recording.

[ElvenKitten]

I see the VPN's making a ton since the bill is also banning a lot of the stuff the Tory Party think is icky.

[Tamhansen]

I see the VPN's making a ton since the bill is also banning a lot of the stuff the Tory Party think is icky.

Like benefits, worker protections and foreigners?

[Mechelle]

Like benefits, worker protections and foreigners?

Or laws which have been in place for over 400 years and thwart their plans...

I have been able to get on E using public WiFi on providers which, quite reasonably ban porn, as it's public, so I am hoping and expecting it won't be a problem. Public transport on the Manchester Metrolink is an exception, however.

I am not sure how long this has  been planned, but it does seem to be  another example of the authoritarian nature of the May government. Although she is on the right, which claims to be about libertarianism and freedom, her instincts are always to coerce and control.

[gaggedLouise]

The implementation date has changed from 1st April to "soon" so expect it to be announced for 32nd of Nevembuary.

Perhaps they realized that if it were launched on the 1st of April, too many people might think it was a joke, and fake news. :P

[Mechelle]

I saw somewhere that the new date is the end of this year, although the present government's relationship with target dates is always elastic.

[Mechelle]

This had been announced to be effective from July. There has been no new official announcement, but some confidential letters were shown on Sky News tonight, which implied it would be delayed once more with no new date.  It's getting like Brexit!

[gaggedLouise]

This had been announced to be effective from July. There has been no new official announcement, but some confidential letters were shown on Sky News tonight, which implied it would be delayed once more with no new date.  It's getting like Brexit!

I think  the reasoning was that once the UK is formally out of the EU they think they'd be able to tell anyone who was gonna appeal the law to the Court of Europe in Strasbourg to shut up. "Don't come talking about no personal integrity here, we're out of those clutches now!". It's no coincidence that the bill was originally set to happen just after the Brexit date of March 29.

[Humble Scribe]

This has now got pushed back to "later this year". I'm not convinced it's ever going to happen, but then I feel that way about Brexit, too.
Either way, it's been good news for ExpressVPN, as I've renewed my sub with them. A lot of public wifi hosts in the UK block sites like Elliquiy already, as well as a number of places I visit abroad, so I already use that to get around them.

[Mechelle]

This idea has now been officially dropped.
I like to think that the Queen crossed it out of her recent speech to Parliament, but I am probably mistaken.

[Humble Scribe]

Good. It was a stupid idea, easily circumvented.