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UK ‘porn block’ to start July 15

Blog post1 min readUpdated Feb 23, 2025View source ↗
The UK’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has announced that the government’s controversial new ‘porn block’ plans will go into effect from July 15, 2019. The scheme – which we’ve covered extensively – will see sites that host pornography needing to implement strict age verification measures to ensure that no users are underage. As noted before, the aim is fine, but the measures likely won’t have the desired effect, due to the ease of circumvention. The DCMS says that”websites that fail to implement age-verification technology face having payment services withdrawn or being blocked for UK users.” This part […]
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