The UK's Online Safety Bill will mandate porn websites verify users' age or face fines; similar proposals were quietly dropped in 2019 after criticism
Porn websites in the UK will be legally required to verify the age of their users under new internet safety laws.
BBC Shiona McCallum
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NEWS: We're introducing world-leading measures to protect children from accessing pornography online and keep them #SafeOnline Find out more about this important part of the Online Safety Bill on #SaferInternetDay ⬇️ https://www.gov.uk/...
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I think we've been down this road before. Several times. It didn't end well. And it won't this time. https://twitter.com/...
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NEW: TikTok is filtering out “mature” videos from some younger users' feeds as part of a test of a new age appropriate rating system. Of course, that hinges on knowing users' ages. In Q3 last year, TikTok removed *12 million* suspected underage accounts https://www.protocol.com/.…
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@issielapowsky
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“When the system is fully launched, content that we've identified as containing overtly mature themes could be restricted from teens,” TikTok said. This is to address the issue where a once a child is 13 social media is like: Welcome to adulthood, kid. https://twitter.com/...