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Are you arguing that people who are against this law and its implementation in the UK are against it because they're addicted to porn?

• basisword 1y ago
  Yes. There are legitimate reasons to dislike the law, its implementation, or its impact on privacy. But 99% of people dislike it simply because they are heavily addicted to porn. The fact there have been much more privacy invasive laws introduced in the UK over the last decade which face little widespread outrage is the tell.
  • sabellito 1y ago
    It's hard to keep this conversation in good faith if you're just gonna throw in some statistic you just made up.
    • basisword 1y ago
      It's very obviously a figure of speech and not intended as a statistic.
      • sabellito 1y ago
        That's not the point I was trying to make. You believe that almost all people who have issue with the law do so because of porn addiction. You haven't shown any data, it's just your belief, from which you're informing and repeating your world view as fact.
  • luke727 1y ago
    I think it's rather that OSA actually visibly affects people in their day-to-day lives whereas other laws don't. I constantly hit age verification pages on Reddit and Twitter and I don't use either for porn. I'm fundamentally against giving Reddit or Twitter or a 3rd party processor my ID just to view content someone somewhere deemed potentially harmful to minors. At least Twitter is done on a post-by-post basis; on Reddit entire subreddits are gated behind age verification.