http://www.wired.co.uk/article/porn-blo ... cation-law
"Will social networks be subject to the same laws?"
Extending this: will Wikipedia be subject to the same laws?
Is COPPA enforced these days, anyway?
Age verification for websites
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You have to convince people that Wikipedia and Commons have enough porn to count as porn sites. Then you have to force WMF to stop IP editing. And of course people of any age can look at the site without an account.
And is Wikipedia a social media site? To some extent, yes, but surely not in the same way that Facebook is.
And is Wikipedia a social media site? To some extent, yes, but surely not in the same way that Facebook is.
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Wikimedia Commons: the only porn repository approved by even the most prudish pastor
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Of course... assuming Snapchat and Kik are mostly used to send pictures of lakes, rivers, trees, and buildings!Wikimedia Commons: the only porn repository approved by even the most prudish pastor
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A fair point, but of course everything on Commons can be seen by anybody of any age.Textnyymi wrote:Of course... assuming Snapchat and Kik are mostly used to send pictures of lakes, rivers, trees, and buildings!Wikimedia Commons: the only porn repository approved by even the most prudish pastor
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Don't forget about the official websites for various brewers, which can easily be defeated simply by inputting a year that is at least 21 years before the current year.