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benjojo posted 31 Jul 2025 12:37 +0000

Hmm. Ofcom (the UK regulator for communications) has announced initial investigations on a handful of companies and their sites that are not obeying new ID requirements for porn as part of the Online Safety Act:

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/protecting-children/investigation-into-8579-llcs-compliance-with-the-duty-to-prevent-children-from-encountering-pornographic-content-through-the-use-of-age-assurance

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/protecting-children/investigation-into-avs-group-ltds-compliance-with-the-duty-to-prevent-children-from-encountering-pornographic-content-through-the-use-of-age-assurance

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/protecting-children/investigation-into-trendio-ltds-compliance-with-the-duty-to-prevent-children-from-encountering-pornographic-content-through-the-use-of-age-assurance

But amusingly by doing this, they are naming a bunch of web sites that do not verify their users ID in order to view porn, how convenient!

I'm not quite sure how they're planning to prosecutor some of these especially given that one of them ( Trendio Ltd ) is a dissolved company in the UK register, and the only known director is based in Morocco.

I guess this is a prelude to court ordered blockings...

various screenshots of the links included in the original post

benjojo replied 31 Jul 2025 12:59 +0000
in reply to: https://social.treehouse.systems/users/dee/statuses/114947940790947647

@dee Oh! Facinating, when I went to some of those earlier (I promise to just double check ofcom's claim :P) it was not showing those banners, I guess that has happened within the last ~30 mins!

timezone@chaos.socia.. replied 31 Jul 2025 12:39 +0000
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WiteWulf@cyberplace... replied 31 Jul 2025 13:00 +0000
in reply to: https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/qXgh2z535cTNhT2fm7

@benjojo yeah, these will probably be test cases as a preliminary to ISP-level blocking

John@chaos.social replied 31 Jul 2025 17:33 +0000
in reply to: https://cyberplace.social/users/WiteWulf/statuses/114947971644384777

@WiteWulf @benjojo

how is this block done? is it IP or DNS based?

WiteWulf@cyberplace... replied 31 Jul 2025 17:41 +0000
in reply to: https://chaos.social/users/John/statuses/114949043575493238

@John @benjojo the ones I saw when I was on Vermin media were IP based, and would redirect to a page saying access to the site was suspended. Not seen any of that since we moved to Zen, though.

John@chaos.social replied 31 Jul 2025 18:35 +0000
in reply to: https://cyberplace.social/users/WiteWulf/statuses/114949076794644207

@WiteWulf @benjojo

A large number of ISPs seemingly are not bothering to host their own DNS anymore youfibre my ISP gives out 1.1.1.1 and 8.8.8.8 as the default DNS servers.

benjojo replied 31 Jul 2025 19:45 +0000
in reply to: https://chaos.social/users/John/statuses/114949288646798838

@John @WiteWulf That's interesting, Are you sure you have not manually configured that? I see a bunch of youfiber CPE's using revolvers 185.154.147.10 / 185.154.147.12 - aka from their ASN

John@chaos.social replied 31 Jul 2025 19:57 +0000
in reply to: https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/kV32Z3khBykLJGpwbJ

@benjojo @WiteWulf it was what I was told to do when I setup it, It's a business line with a static if that changes anything

benjojo replied 31 Jul 2025 20:38 +0000
in reply to: https://chaos.social/users/John/statuses/114949608448114269

@John @WiteWulf oh yes, that definitely changes things! It's a lot more common for business lines to be configured with public DNS resolvers rather than the ISP ones!

WiteWulf@cyberplace... replied 31 Jul 2025 18:42 +0000
in reply to: https://chaos.social/users/John/statuses/114949288646798838

@John @benjojo interesting. I mean, they must be running a resolver for their own services and namespace, but not running a caching resolver for their customers is an interesting cost-saving measure, I suppose