Is it for Privacy or Security or just Personal Interest?

Internet censorship us bit is not a new thing at all. For countless years, authoritarian regimes similar to Russia and North Korea have been aggressive in taking control of the internet. Among the infamous case is the blocking of the China’s Great Firewall from users who are trying to access the online world since the 90s.

On the more democratic societies, internet is taken for granted for freedom. However, countries part of the EU is now making the move in restricting how people are using the internet. Recently, the government is planning to introduce a new legislation both in Austria and the UK. The proposed legislation is so controversial that it brought concerns to a great number of people and thus, suffered from opposition.

A Dive to the Controversy

So what’s actually going on? Let’s us take a deeper look at the new legislative changes that are taking place along with the arguments and debates surrounding them. At the same time, to why these new laws are likely to become ineffective and thus, fail.

As part of the Digital Economy Act, United Kingdom’s ‘government is now pressing ahead with all the measures that would restrict accessibility to explicit materials.

The porn ban or porn block is requiring users from UK adult entertainment industry has to verify that they’re of legal age. Few documents that are required include:

• Passport
• Driving License
• Credit card

Any IDs or docs can actually work so long as there’s a proof of your age. As a matter of fact, this is the exact reason why no matter how keyword research is used, it’s near impossible to find porn related materials.

Was the New Policy is Destined to be Doomed?

The explanation behind its restriction is to safeguard children by means of preventing them from accidentally or intentionally accessing websites that are explicit in nature or has adult content. With this new policy, it is heavily criticized and there are a lot of experts in the digital realm that are projecting it to fail.

One of the probable reasons why they deem it to fail is the risks of data privacy. The fact that users are forced to submit their personal data to commercial websites, implications for security breach are quite serious. The fact that these data will be pooled in a single database of the adult site, it certainly is a big target among hackers.