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nickdothutton ◴[] No.44983582[source]
Step 1, pass law.

Step 2, demand compliance.

Step 3, upon not hearing of compliance, levy fines.

Step 4, upon non payment of fines, declare in breach of (2).

Step 5, block site from UK using DNS, in the same manner as torrent sites etc.

5 was always the goal, 2 to 4 are largely just performative.

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sunshine-o ◴[] No.44984120[source]
This is the only power they have left.

The UK government has lost control of what happen in the physical world on their own island so now the bureaucrats play a fantasy game where they are gonna enforce their rules and dominion in their former colonies or the digital world.

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lokar ◴[] No.44985325[source]
While I disapprove of what the gov is doing here, I think it’s incorrect and unhelpful to put all the blame on them. AIUI, the UK is a democracy and these policies are generally supported by the voters.
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sunshine-o ◴[] No.44986352[source]
I understand the people might wanna block porn on their kids mobile internet and home WiFi.

So why don't they mandate their ISP to implement this as an optional feature ?

Why do they instead try to boil the ocean by going after every website on the planet and outside of their jurisdiction?

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waltbosz ◴[] No.44987370[source]
My solution was to set my router to use the DNS server at 1.1.1.3 which blocks adult sites.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-1-1-1-1-for-families...

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1. ImJamal ◴[] No.44987582{3}[source]
I assume this doesn't block porn on reddit or non-porn websites?
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2. waltbosz ◴[] No.44987873[source]
No, it just blocks DNS requests from a list of porn hostnames.
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3. ranger_danger ◴[] No.44988166[source]
Many browsers/apps now will ignore the system/DHCP-provided DNS server and use their own though (often via TLS so you can't block it easily)... so while this might work for some situations, I can't in good conscious call it a great solution.
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4. ImJamal ◴[] No.44991203[source]
I understand that. I just wasn't sure if Reddit and co used specific subdomains for porn images/videos.
5. waltbosz ◴[] No.44993377{3}[source]
Wow I did not know that.

I agree. It's not a very robust solution, but it's better than nothing at all .

And it's annoying sometimes. One thing I found is that it somehow forces Google safe-search, which appears to block some non-pornographic search results.