I don’t think anyone disagrees with that, but the current “upload a video of your face, a copy of your passport and your full name and address to a criminal company based in Cypress” combined with “if you don’t implement it you must block the UK” is one of the most stupid, dangerous and incompetent things I’ve seen for weeks.

It’s not just porn being blocked. It’s Discord servers, Twitter, image hosters, other hosting websites, media websites, images on websites, international companies’ websites, tech support, equipment manufacturers, fucking paint suppliers.

It’s a sack of badly thought-out shit by bell-ends. An opt-in from a mobile phone provider or ISP, plus some parental controls was all we needed. Now we can’t order some fucking specialist paint for work, and the pictures in the online safety manual all say “not available in your region”.

At least we’ll soon be able to buy a pack of 1000 stolen uploaded British passports and photos for £50.

Yeah, you see all these newspaper/online articles about “how to live for cheaper” etc, then you notice “but that’s how I’ve already been living for a decade”.

Oh great, now I have to start hoarding water, too.

In the UK, the lowest guess (from the government) is “more than 10,000”. Most anti-slavery charities agree on an estimate of about 120,000 - 130,000 in the UK.

Each year, about 10,000 - 20,000 are newly referred to authorities (and potentially rescued).

Though there’s often a perception that it’s only foreign workers in the UK that get trapped like this, 25% of those are British nationals.

Some sad (but important) links: antislavery.org

unseenuk.org

The Modern Slavery Act 2015: becoming world-leading again (PDF)