By 25 July, all sites and apps that allow pornography – whether they are dedicated adult sites or social media, search or gaming services – must use highly effective age checks to ensure children are not normally able to encounter it. Online firms who publish their own pornography are already required to protect children from it, and thousands of sites have already introduced robust age checks in response.
Major porn providers operating in the UK have confirmed to Ofcom that they will introduce effective checks by next month’s deadline in order to comply with the new rules. They include PornHub, the most-visited pornographic service in the UK. Other services who are happy to be named at this stage include BoyfriendTV, Cam4, FrolicMe, inxxx, Jerkmate, LiveHDCams, MyDirtyHobby, RedTube, Streamate, Stripchat, Tube8, and YouPorn. This represents a broad range of pornography services accessed in the UK.
Monitoring compliance with these new duties is a priority for Ofcom. If any company fails to comply with its new duties, Ofcom can impose fines and – in very serious cases – apply for a court order to prevent the site or app from being available in the UK. As part of our work enforcing the Online Safety Act, we have already launched investigations into four porn providers and won’t hesitate to take further action from July.
People are not gonna agree with me but, it makes sense to have age verification just like you have to verify your age for tobacco or alcohol.
Is there a paper linking gooning to cancer, why would you compare those things
I don’t agree with him, but there are certainly health issues stemming from porn consumption.
Be it ed, or a mental health issue.
In what world is that risk comparable to cigarettes?
Even comparing it to junk food is a stretch, and nobody suggests we put age verification on chips.
Would it make sense for alcohol age verification if every household had beer taps installed? Because thats what internet is.
Its certainly the parents responsibility to make sure those kids dont drink. And if they do, there should be repercussions just like we have the same expectations with Gun use.
But it’s disanalgous anyways. We make stores and establishments check for IDs. These websites are no different from these establishments, therefore they should also verify the age.
Its disingenuous to compare information flow to physical markets. They’re not the same thing.
Yeah porn is definitely just “information flow”, there’s nothing beyond it and it can’t affect minor individuals. Really? That’s not disingenuous? So online gambling shouldn’t be age restricted? There’s no “physical” aspect to it.
Oh let’s not forget, it certainly doesn’t objectify women.
I mean it literally is just information flow - no? Doesn’t mean it can’t be harmful or dangerous but thats what it is and you equating to actions like gambling just show how’s actually ignorant you are being here. Have a good day and don’t reply to me thanks.