UK to introduce porn age-checks in July
 

An age-check scheme designed to stop under-18s viewing pornographic websites will come into force on 15 July.

From that date, affected sites will have to verify the age of UK visitors.

If they fail to comply they will face being blocked by internet service providers.

But critics say teens may find it relatively easy to bypass the restriction or could simply turn to porn-hosting platforms not covered by the law.

Twitter, Reddit and image-sharing community Imgur, for example, will not be required to administer the scheme because they fall under an exception where more than a third of a site or app's content must be pornographic to qualify.

Likewise, any platform that hosts pornography but does not do so on a commercial basis - meaning it does not charge a fee or make money from adverts or other activity - will not be affected.

Continued https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-47960775

God damn..

How does this protect children if sites with no ads and sites with mixed content are not blocked? Twitter and Reddit have more porn than almost any adult site on the web.

no names, no agency , more bs

What does this comment mean? You don't think they are implementing age verification?

no.....................

You are a fool.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/age-verification-for-online-pornography-to-begin-in-july

you mean like the last fixed 6 plus dates, what action have you taken?

Exactly!

Kids can be exposed to free porn online when.....

Stupidest thing I've heard of in a long time

Not to mention UK's news portals like DailyMail, full of softcore. :error
Well, goodluck to them banning 1/2-1/3 of the Web. :1orglaugh :Oh crap

:2 cents: :helpme :disgust

So if I put up a free site that links to my paysites the free site does NOT need age verification? Only the paysite does?

So UKers can jack off to my free porn without verifying all they want. Great job Britain! Along with Brexit you're batting 1000.

no, if i´m correct, all porn sites need to show AV, unless, like Twitter or FB, they´re 70% non adult related...

So tubes and I take it, free blogs will need AV...

Could someone please let me know if this is correct or if the free tubes and blogs do not need AV?

MindGeek is providing an AV service (which seems to get mentioned in all the news reports).

I suspect that others countries will follow suit. Bring back the AVS.