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UK Internet Censorship
The Digital Economy Act has been passed Parliament and was set to lead to the mass blocking of internet porn to all UK residents. This includes the free tube sites and is not restricted to UK based websites. However data privacy issues and the lack of acceptable age verification implementations led to the implementation of the Act being cancelled.
The censorship of internet porn will now be carried over into the Online Harms Bill which has wider ambitions on the censorship of the whole internet. This bill will be discussed during 2020.

See Details of the UK internet porn censorship regime in the Digital Economy Act

See UK Internet Censorship for ongoing news

Prior to the Online Harms Bill will be consideration of the extension of EU VoD censorship under an updated AVMS directive. Ofcom had previously mirrored censorship arrangements as proposed for the Digital Economy Act but now may need to reconsider as age verification services will not be so readily available.

Meanwhile the Information Commissioner's Office is considering wide ranging age verification requirements for most websites in the name of data protection for children. The ICO is due to present its proposals by 23rd November 2019. Hopefully it will do better than the draft which required children to hand over all of their private personal data to any website that asked, just so the websites could offer 'better' data protection.

How about a Government Harms Bill?
The Government reveals that it spent 2.2 million on its failed Age Verification for porn policy and that doesn't include the work from its own civil servants

A sigh of relief for the few remaining British Video On Demand adult services
Ofcom rewrote its Rule 11 censorship rules on for VoD services in line with BBFC censorship laws applying more generally to porn websites. Presumably it will now cancel the changes

A verified dud
The government cancels current plans for age verification requirements for porn as defined in the Digital Economy Act. It will readdress the issue as part of its Online Harms bill

Censors not standing still
Nicky Morgan announces that the government's porn censorship measure has now been properly registered with the EU

Endangering porn users doesn't qualify as online safety
Ireland decides that age verification for porn is not a priority and will not be included in the upcoming online safety bill

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