After delays, the UK government quietly drops its controversial plan to implement an age verification requirement for porn websites Rob Merrick / The Independent : The Independent 2019-10-17 Rob Merrick Rob Merrick Related Coverage UK drops plans for online pornography age verification system The Guardian ONLINE HARMS:Written statement - HCWS13 UK Parliament UK quietly ditches porn age checks in favor of wider online harms rules TechCrunch UK Abandons Controversial Porn Age Checks Geek.com UK's controversial porn block plans officially canceled Reclaim The Net Porn Block Ditched By Government After Repeated Delays HuffPost UK The UK porn block is finally dead The Verge Porn Wins Porn War Gizmodo UK ditches controversial age verification system for accessing adult content online TechSpot UK finally abandons its unworkable ‘porn block’ plan Engadget UK government scraps controversial plans for adult site age checks BetaNews Discussion @latentexistence Ella on x Tories abandon plan to make internet unusable unless you prove your age https://www.theguardian.com/ ... @martinsfp Martin Sfp Bryant on x RIP to this kneejerk policy that sounded like common sense until you thought about it for more than a fraction of a second. https://twitter.com/... @martinbelam Martin Belam on x I wonder how much time and money has been spent and wasted on this ‘plan’ that literally anybody who understands how the internet works would have told you was unenforceable https://www.theguardian.com/ ...