Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/06/19/own-goal-averted.html
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But forcing folks to use porn filters in the UK worked sooooo well 5 years ago
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Given the UK’s current rush towards full idiocy, I’m actually shocked they gave up on this particular bit.
Given that it was a dumb, unworkable idea from the start, I’m wondering why it’s fallen apart now, at the last minute. Because they realized that no one knew about it, and when they found out, there would be hell to pay?
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Amazingly most of the fantasies play out like a Benny Hill episode. A lot of running around to Yakety Sax and slapping an old bald guy on top of the head.
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a country with no effective leadership that is steamrollering towards the most spectacularly idiotic act of political suicide in living memory
I’m trying to forget. Please don’t remind me.
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I’m sure there’s a parliamentary sub-committee finding ways to add Brexit to the things you’re supposed to remember when you look at a poppy.
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Blighty’s online pr0n gatekeepers are begging for a regulatory beating, says digital rights org
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That got a snigger from me.
However, the “age verification” thing probably caused money to be spent on one of the Honourable Members’ consultancy firms, which was all that was supposed to happen.
In the meantime, the Pilots of this great nation have all barricaded themselves in the cabin, turned off the intercom, and set autopilot for the open ocean. All the rest of us can do is wait.
Peanuts, anyone?
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Maybe the Tories decided that they needed all their technological experts to focus on the Sisyphean task of creating an electronic border between Northern and Southern Ireland?
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From the Sky news story:
Sky News understands the issue was not technical, but bureaucratic.
When laying the BBFC’s guidance in Parliament in late 2018, DCMS failed to notify the European Commission as it is required to, undermining the legal basis of age verification.
(emphasis mine)
Yet more brexit-related bungling from this government. Now Remain means you get to keep access to porn. I wonder how that would have shifted votes?
Also, this means that the indefinite delay might just be until the big crash out happens, so people who cannot escape from the UK- order your VPN now.
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But I thought the Leavers were the wankers?
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You know, this does remind me of a scene in a book. Are you going to order five pints with the peanuts and tell the bartender to keep the change?
ETA, on topic: the beeb told me this morning there’s going to be replacement for this pron thing, or did I get this wrong?
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Culture secretary says it’s a 6 month delay, rather than being cancelled.
Porn-block jam tomorrow?
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my kink is ruined!
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Boy this is a real head scratcher…
Love in the Time of Cholera Brexit
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They have not. Nowhere in the Guardian article does it say it has been abandoned. It says a 6 month delay. Not denying it has been shelved is not the same as it actually being shelved. It may be on its way to the shelf but is not there yet and we won’t know it is going to be until it is or until an official announcment is made, which may or may not be in the offing. I do not know where the alleged “did not deny” quote comes from. I could not find it in either the Sky or Guardian article. Maybe I missed something, but assuming I did not … typical Cory hyperbole - nothing has actually been cancelled, yet, despite Cory’s headline.
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Ah, so they’re likely just delaying it to coincide with a no-deal-Brexit-clusterfuck, so no one will notice/for maximum fuckery.
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