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Age verification is a disaster for the web. It allows the government over-reaching powers over UK businesses, tells parents that they can't teach their children, and doesn't even work. Kids and teens will access what they want, education is the solution. WebDevLaw/1434801615597412352
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The internet also extends beyond borders massively, and the only way this could be implemented fully is a china-style great firewall. Do you want your personal freedoms restricted that much? In favour of what? Making it a tiny bit harder for people to access porn?
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And it will barely even affect that. In my high school I knew people using bluetooth to share their favourite adult content. This wouldn't affect that at all. It makes it impossible for parents to safely teach, and means teens are watching unsafe content that sets a bad example.
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This law has been made by MPs so far removed from the world that have absolutely no idea how the internet works, how to raise children and will happily stamp on your freedoms in order to gain more power over what you can say or do online.