UK enforces strict new online age checks today

What I can see happening...

Most of those sites end up being shutdown due to no longer having the visitor numbers they used to have..

YOTI is one of the age check / identity checks.. which requires people to upload PICTURES of themselves to age check.. via driving licenses or other ID's

so now governments will know what type of material your watching..

Wonder how many parents are going to lose their driving licenses when their kids use it to sign up online.. and forget to put it back where they got it..

so a form of BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING you.. wonder how many people who sign up and then going to end up being blackmailed in whatever jobs they do

when certain people hack into the system.. and say "we're going to tell everyone what type of **** you like watching.. so pay us to keep quiet or else.."

and then release it to the news networks anyway..

Just wait for the members of the british government to start being put in the papers for what they are looking at whilst they should be doing their government job .. in parliament.

according to some there is a easy way to get around it..

VPN sites saying no need to worry about this age restriction.. we can help you bypass it.

Problems with facescans.. what if.. you are one of the lucky few who are over 18 and have the face of a 12-16 year old. ie every time you go to a shop to buy a beer or cigs your asked for ID as you look like a school kid.. when infact your 25.

as for OFCOM theres sod all they can do if the company isnt HOSTED in the UK. maybe block the sites IP address.. but then they might be blocking out important other sites aswell that use the same IP address. example would be 2 scientists working on a cure for some disease and now thanks to OFCOM can no longer speak via internet. 

I can also see those profitable companies loosing billions in revenue from the people making content, and having their lawyers take governments to court.

so i've just had this thought.. When will NSANE be asking for a YOTI identity check to verify who their users are?.. then i can see all the people who post fixes they have created for fun.. being classed as breaking the laws and as their id's are will then be KNOWN some little ahole reporting them and eventually the site being shutdown.

Video Nasties Internet Style, I think. 

Just another information grab and control method by our government in the name of "think of the children", pandering to (and manipulating) a certain segment of the population who now can rest assured that their lack of proper child supervision is officially taken care of by someone else.

@andy2004

Post edited. I removed a phrase that was deemed political. 

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