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sarettah · 01-20-2018, 07:14 AM

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thommy · 01-20-2018, 08:04 AM

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Originally Posted by pornlaw

Blacklisting by Google in other countries probably wont happen.

In Canada, Google was ordered by the Canadian Supreme Court to blacklist certain results. Google just hopped across the border to the US and won a ruling in a US court that overturned the Canadian Supreme Court's decision.

Google Wins Ruling to Block Global Censorship Order | Fortune

As for VISA and Mastercard... I dont see that happening but its remotely possible.

#1, 2 and 3 I agree with.

but they do it in Germany since around 10 years or more already.

there are thousands of big pornsites what you can not find in Google´s german index.

Out of that Google does not even deal with this anymore. It is lumendatabase.
If a site is listed there Google takes it out automatically in a countries index or the complete index.

pornlaw · 01-20-2018, 09:37 AM

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Originally Posted by cordoba

I would estimate that come this summer, there will be at least one million adult sites online without age verification for the UK. That's a hell of a lot of work for the UK authorities to send off individual subpeonas for each site.

Of course, maybe they just wont bother unless the site in question is hardanalpornhub.co.uk with a milllion daily uk visitors. But the point is the original post in this thread was a guy asking if it was safe for him to visit the UK and would it be likely to be arrested by border control. No, unless he has a huge site that has huge UK traffic. In other words, the UK wont have a huge big brother database of every webmaster in the world who runs a porn site that does not have UK verification - that would involve issuing a million or more requests to registrars and hosts for private information.

In any case, they would have the legal power to ask for that information only for British based webmasters (i.e. you are breaking British law), and if the webmaster has whois protection, how do they know the webmaster is British based? The UK has the right to block foreign sites that do not have age verification, but unless you are a British based webmaster, you are not 'breaking the law'. Even if you are British based, from what I've read, you will be served an enforcement notice to which you will have a year or something to comply with (i.e. introduce age verification) or face a fine.

How they will enforce it, who they will enforce it against, if they will enforce it and how long it will take if they do enforce it is all just speculation.

Its like 2257 in the US. Its only been enforced against 1 person and only a dozen of so producers have been inspected. There are many ways for DOJ to enforce 2257 - if they chose to. But the mass inspections have never come to fruition.

Will this new law in the UK be the same as 2257 probably not. I will assume that there will be some level of enforcement. And only then will anyone really know.

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