Why in the holy hell as the world's governments taken such an interest in the sex lives of their citizens?<p>Why is it their business in any way, shape or form?<p>I'm not talking about excluded topics like CP. They are illegal and rightly so.
This isn't that. This is monitoring who watches what, regardless of how this is written, and lied about to get passed.
> Facial age-estimation tech, that will scan users' faces and use software to infer if they are an adult, is also an option.<p>Wouldn't this be trivially defeated by software which presents as a webcam and provides...any image you choose? Or is this also assuming a privileged, out of control of the user, remotely accessible camera?
If they try this, we'll have an excellent source of adversarial training of systems for better live 3d overlays of faces from photos on webcam output.<p>Also the "big brother is watching" ad campaign for vpn providers is pretty much writing itself.
How will they stop kids from running stable diffusion locally and generating any kind of porn they like?<p>I suspect that will be an unintended side effect of this authoritarianism.<p>The Conservative Party was previously the more libertarian option in the U.K. (effectively) two-party system.<p>I’m not sure how we push back against authoritarianism?