[cedws]

The UK government was warned almost 10 years ago this is bad idea, a privacy disaster waiting to happen. They've decided to push it through anyway.

Children accessing porn is bad, I think that can be almost universally agreed on, but the solution is not the government nannying everyone.

[rayiner]

I’m in favor of the ban, but the 1990s privacy nerds had a good point when they said it would lead to other kinds of censorship: https://www.standingforfreedom.com/2024/08/think-before-you-...

The slippery slope happened a lot faster than most people thought.

[Jigsy]

It's a country that doesn't believe in freedom of artistic expression, either.

[bigfatkitten]

It's not about children. They've done their dash with using 'terrorism' as an excuse to erode civil liberties, and so now they've switched to 'saving the children'.

[ghssds]

­> Children accessing porn is bad, I think that can be almost universally agreed on

I learned to distrust both my intuition and common knowledge but I may be convinced by solid scientific arguments and statistics.