They're *shops* they have a built in restriction based on payment services requiring cards, which are already age-gated.
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You don't think you can pay cash in a sex shop?? The point is they ARE restricted by age, so why should the internet be any different? You wouldn't want kids wandering into a dirty video store, but with the internet equivalent, that's what you're saying is kl
jul 29, 2025, 9:55 am • 0 1 • view
Silly me. I thought we were concerned with digital shops given that we're discussing the Online Safety Act
jul 29, 2025, 11:32 am • 0 0 • view
You think they're different? I see your problem, you think the web is actually a parallel universe with a different set of rules. It isn't. Why would you accept age restrictions in the physical world, and not expect them in the 'easier to manage' digital one?🤔
jul 29, 2025, 12:33 pm • 0 0 • view
I would have similar issues if "presenting my ID" at a shop entailed putting it in a tube and sending it "somewhere" and just hoping no one else got their hands on it. But that's not how it works in physical stores, I show it to a single person who frankly couldn't care less.
jul 29, 2025, 12:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Exactly. So why have you convinced yourself that the same cannot be achieved electronically? Why do you think its governments responsibility? You're also assuming the ID checker doesn't care less, you don't know that at all In fact he may be MORE likely to, if for example you're banging his wife.
jul 29, 2025, 3:47 pm • 0 0 • view
I don't think it's sensible to create legislation that forces all the adult population of the UK to let any company that may host adult content have a copy of their photo ID in digital form to facilitate identity on anl national scale when any of those databases gets compromised.
jul 29, 2025, 3:53 pm • 0 0 • view
The law doesn't force anyone to do that. The law states age verification is required, the method used is down to the content provider. You need to take it up with them.
jul 29, 2025, 4:11 pm • 0 0 • view
It's not that it can't, it's a difference of security. I don't think it's the governments responsibility. I think it's the responsibility of parents.
jul 29, 2025, 3:52 pm • 0 0 • view
We restrict the use of guns, for adults. If we have to do that for adults, why do you think parents are any different? This comes down to whether you think the internet is public, or not If it is, then you're suggesting sex shops in the local park without age restrictions is cool. If it isn't...
jul 29, 2025, 4:08 pm • 0 0 • view
...then you will have to explain why you think the internet is a night club and its parents responsibility if they let their kids in. Now which one do you think the internet is?
jul 29, 2025, 4:09 pm • 0 0 • view
The Internet is a place where everyone can be anywhere and in multiple places at the same time and without spaces limitations. If 100,000 people tried hammered on the doors of your local store the army would be called in. Online that's an average weekend.
jul 29, 2025, 1:05 pm • 0 0 • view
What's the point here? You don't think computers can verify age fast enough? They're quicker than humans fella. Also, it's not true you can be everywhere, you can't access secure government sites on it, for starters.
jul 29, 2025, 3:51 pm • 0 0 • view