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News Monday 12th January...

Internet The enshittification of Britain Government goes censorship crazy, criminalising deepfakes and banning young people from social media

Internet Better safe than sorry How British porn viewers are avoiding stupidly handing over ID to age verification companies

Internet Antidirective Poland president vetoes EU internet censorship law from being implemented in Poland

News Monday 5th January...

Internet Anti social social media French lawmakers push to ban under 15s from social media and to demand ID from all over 15s

Internet The dangers of handing over ID to websites In this case Pornhub warns its subscribers that a data breach will likely result in sextortion emails and the like

Internet You'll have to search for ID in Australia Australia set to dangerously hand over ID to use search engines

Internet Offsite Article: Lets hope trail blazing UK gets a bloody nose over censorship overreach UK internet censor takes the heat from US courts for overreach when trying to censor US websites

Internet Offsite Article: Lets hope trail blazing Australia gets a bloody nose over censorship overreach Australian internet censor takes the heat from the US House for overreach when trying to censor US websites

Lists of censored websites

ID verification status for popular tube sites

Websites that have self blocked to UK users

BBFC adjudications on mobile website age ratings

Right leaning voices cancelled by left leaning social media during the covid times
 

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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.
 

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