is a cunt.
For those that don’t know since Friday 25th of July 2025 adult websites will require age verification for those wanting to view their wares, or the companies could face a heavy fine.
Now that may be to protect children from viewing harmful content but young people over 18 may be conned, co-erced into using an untrusted age verification system which then may store, use or bribe the person. The system will be open to all sorts of abuse.
This is a fucked up, half-arsed law that will do more harm than good.
For research (Ahem…) I tried signing up for XVideos. Age verification by text message to the old punting phone didn’t work.
It’s a SIM only Pay As You Go piece of shit. Face verification using a photo of Saddam Hussein and Tony Blair didn’t work:
“This is not live” was the error – which is probably true. The picture of Keir Starmer had his glasses on.
The cunts want you to pay but you probably don’t want to give personally identifyable information.
Internet traffic to the web sites from almost any other country in the world will not be subject to this.
The tech savvy will just use Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) to avoid this.
If you want to pay a few quid every month that is. This is a tax on wanking!
Nominated by Anton Pillar.