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UK age verification hasn’t been delayed again: A date for the ‘porn ban’ is due this week

Blog post1 min readUpdated Feb 23, 2025View source ↗
For several years, the UK government has been slowly working towards implementing its age verification plans for pornographic content. Today, the measures were said to be going into effect…but nothing has happened. That doesn’t mean the plans have gone away though. Indeed, to the contrary, an enforcement date is set to be announced by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) this week, SEXTECHGUIDE understands. While the exact date that the age verification measures are due to come into effect still isn’t clear, obscenity lawyer Myles Jackman suggests that the UK’s uncertainty around Brexit and its position within Europe […]
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