The largest mainstream test of an online age verification system since the announcement of the UK’s “porn ban” has taken place, and has been described as a huge success. Digital age gates were placed on “I Want Fourplay,” an adult film created during Channel 4’s shooting of the documentary “Mums Make Porn.”

Tech companies have won the first round of their legal action against the Government in a bid to force ministers to introduce an internet porn ban for children. A judge ruled that age verification Apr 02, 2019 · The government's much heralded porn "block" has been delayed once again. Under the controversial plans, people will have to verify their age to access UK commercial pornographic websites in a bid Government’s Ineffective UK ISP Internet Porn Ban Coming April 2019. Sunday, January 13th, 2019 (12:01 am) - Score 56,376 . Email | Link News. 43 Comments. Oct 17, 2019 · On July 15, 2019, the UK government will enforce an age-verification requirement for online pornography websites. Websites that don’t comply with the UK’s rules will be blocked in the country. Here’s how this online censorship system will work. Update: The porn block has been delayed by six months. Second Update: The porn block is now dead. The family of a teenager stabbed to death after her killer became obsessed with pornography depicting violence against black women has urged the government to make it Jan 16, 2020 · Tech companies have launched legal action to force the Government to bring in the porn age ban, in a move supported by children’s charities.

Social media or user generated sites that feature porn would have been exempt, as you say likely pushing young people towards even less regulated porn. Basically it’d be an unenforceable ban and a massive data protection risk for whoever was responsible for storing everyone’s “porn pass”.

The vast majority of the Internet access provided by Wi-Fi systems in public places in the UK is filtered with many sites being blocked. The filtering is done voluntarily by the six largest providers of public Wi-Fi: Arqiva, BT, Sky, Nomad Digital, Virgin and O2, who together are responsible for 90% public Wi-Fi. May 09, 2019 · Update 21/06/19: The UK's 'porn ban' has been delayed again, due to the government's failure to tell EU regulators about the plan reports the BBC.. The result is that the 'ban' will be pushed back Oct 16, 2019 · The so-called porn blocker would have forced commercial porn providers to verify users' ages, or face a UK ban. Digital Secretary Nicky Morgan said other measures would be deployed to achieve the The largest mainstream test of an online age verification system since the announcement of the UK’s “porn ban” has taken place, and has been described as a huge success. Digital age gates were placed on “I Want Fourplay,” an adult film created during Channel 4’s shooting of the documentary “Mums Make Porn.”

Oct 17, 2019 · The UK porn ban is dead – for now The government has shelved plans to block adult sites using age verification technology amidst heavy criticism from privacy advocates and a perceived lack of scope for the policy

Apr 11, 2019 · Sex and Censorship in the UK, the regulation of the porn industry is a sign of greater underlying threats to net neutrality. For Barnett, the problems with the age verification system, though still significant, pale in comparison to the government’s power to block porn websites outright if they don’t comply with the law. Jan 17, 2020 · UK's Canceled 'Porn Ban' Faces Legal Challenge. Four age verification companies are claiming damages worth an estimated $4 million for the tech they developed to support the scheme. Sep 28, 2018 · The Uttarakhand High Court asked the Centre to strictly implement the ban on pornographic websites, taking cognisance of reports that a girl was gang-raped in a Dehradun school by her fellow