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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.



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.


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


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'.


­> 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.




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