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UK drops beleaguered porn block, but hints at ‘chilling’ potential future plans

Blog post1 min readUpdated Feb 22, 2025View source ↗
Plans for adult content to be locked away behind strict age verification measures for users in the UK have been shelved, Nicky Morgan, Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), confirmed in a statement. “The government has concluded that this objective of coherence will be best achieved through our wider online harms proposals and, as a consequence, will not be commencing Part 3 of the Digital Economy Act 2017 concerning age verification for online pornography,” Morgan said.  She added that the objectives of the Digital Economy Act remain the same, but that it’ll be more effective delivered […]
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