At least someone would have enjoyed our censorial times
The Digital Economy Act 2017 threatened to introduce strict age verification for internet porn access coupled with ISP blocking for websites that don't comply. However the legislation was fundamentally flawed by its voluntary approach
to privacy and security. After a series of delays, the age verification section of the bill was put out of its misery in October 2019.
The censorship of internet porn returned via the Online Safety Act which has wider ambitions on the censorship
of the whole internet. The bill was discussed during 2020 and scrutinised by parliamentary committee in 2021 before being passed into law in 2023. Internet censor Ofcom is currently implementing the censorship law with a major milestone of 25th July 2025
when rules about child protection and age verification for porn kick in.
In 2021 Ofcom considered and extended EU VoD censorship under an updated AVMS directive. After the Online Safety Act (OSA) came in the few remaining British VoD
companies became subject to the OSA instead.
Meanwhile the Information Commissioner's Office has published wide ranging age verification requirements for most websites in the name of data protection for children. These ICO rules came into force in
September 2021.
Internet Censorship
News Sunday 21st September...
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Naked aggression
Ofcom inevitably selects a British registered company for its first adult website victim for punishment
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Offsite Article:
Unsafe advice Ofcom porn censors visit adult trade event trying to
convince porn sites to comply with ID/age verification.
News Monday 15th September...
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22 more reasons to get a VPN Ofcom initiates censorship proceedings against the another tranche of tubes sites that have not
introduced ID/age verification
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Harmful censorship The government extends censorship rules in the Online Safety Act to ban self-harm material from adults
No doubt Trump will have a few words to say about this Ofcom expands its investigation into 4chan,
demanding censorship and onerous paperwork from a US website with no connection to the UK beyond that it's viewable online
