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South Africa ‘porn ban’ proposal resurfaces after 9 years, and it looks suspiciously like UK Age Verification rules

Blog post1 min readUpdated Feb 21, 2025View source ↗
South Africa is mulling taking the same route as the UK by implementing a defacto online porn block, in a bid to reduce access to pornography by underage users. In a report released last month by the South African Law Reform Commission (SALRC) titled Pornography and Children, provisional recommendations were made to block all digital pornography. However, while the UK is approaching things by requiring websites to verify the identity of users, the SALRC proposal suggests “all devices (new and second hand) be issued or returned to a default setting that blocks inappropriate content.” The proposal also emphasises that anyone […]
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