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The Digital Economy Law, which mandates compulsory age verifications on pornography sites and was passed in the United Kingdom (UK) last year, will officially be rolled out in April of 2018. Starting April, online pornography sites will be forced to deploy age verification to UK visitors or be blocked by the Great Firewall of Britain. The reason for this anti-pornography move is two-fold \u2013 to defeat terrorism<\/a> and to stop the corruption of the youth. It has been clarified that the new law only applies to commercial pornography sites, and social media sites like Reddit <\/a>that are often used as sources of pornography would not be subject to compulsory age verification (for now).<\/p>\n

The UK government will require \u201cid checks\u201d for age verification on porn sites starting in 2018<\/h2>\n

The government\u2019s timeline for the implementation of UK-wide age verification on commercial pornography sites has been called \u201cunrealistic\u201d by some. Many people also have also questioned the technicals of how this blanket age verification will be enforced. Chatter surrounding the implementation of the age verification suggests it may be done through the collection of credit card numbers or perhaps ID numbers. At the end of the day, it\u2019ll be up to the still-to-be-formed regulatory body to oversee this. What\u2019s clear is that this government action is unlikely to have the desired effect. Some have pointed out that eight months is too little time to form a working regulatory body to oversee all of this.\u00a0Dr. Victoria Nash, who was part of a team commissioned by the government to study the upcoming regulation, commented to the BBC<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe idea you can get a regulatory body up and running in that timeframe seems extraordinary to me. And while I don\u2019t have a problem with asking these companies to act responsibly, I don\u2019t see it as a solution to stopping minors seeing pornography.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We won\u2019t know until later in the autumn who the members of this regulatory body are and just how involved the existing anti-pornography and pro-censorship regulatory body, the\u00a0British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), will be. The BBFC is already responsible for blocking pornography websites that don\u2019t follow the UK\u2019s rules.<\/p>\n

Already, many internet users in the U.K. have to also take the additional step of contacting their ISP<\/a> and letting the company know that they wanted to turn off the adult filter<\/a> just to access non adult websites. What is really brewing here, that has privacy advocates around the world worried, is that the government is building a database of internet users \u2013 or mandating that users store sensitive information with third party commercial porn providers, some of which don\u2019t use https. It\u2019s a slippery slope towards a censored internet controlled by the government; furthermore, as usual, \u201cthink of the children\u201d is used as a way to squeeze more control over this inherently open technology all while building the Great Firewall of Britain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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