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Sat Jan 18 05:23:33 This must be the reason!!! "This also applies to social media platforms that allow pornographic content like Elon Musk’s X and Reddit" http://www...orcement-unless-kids-kept-out/ UK porn sites face enforcement unless kids kept out “Those companies that fail to meet these new requirements can expect to face enforcement action from Ofcom,” warns tech regulator’s chief. January 16, 2025 1:06 pm CET LONDON — The United Kingdom’s internet regulator has warned that sites hosting pornography face enforcement action if they fail to introduce robust age checks to keep minors out. All internet sites hosting pornography must introduce those age checks by July 2025, Ofcom confirmed. “For too long, many online services which allow porn and other harmful material have ignored the fact that children are accessing their services,” Ofcom’s chief executive Melanie Dawes said. “Companies have effectively been treating all users as if they’re adults, leaving children potentially exposed to porn and other types of harmful content. Today, this starts to change.” New guidance published by Ofcom on Thursday calls for sites to adopt “highly effective age assurance” methods like open banking, photo-ID matching, facial age estimation, mobile network operator age checks, credit card checks, digital identity services or email-based age estimation. Porn sites that upload their own content, like paid-for premium services, must implement these age checks immediately, or face the possibility of enforcement action including fines of up to £18 million or 10 percent of their global annual revenue, or at the more extreme end, business disruption measures such as the site being blocked in the U.K. Sites that host user-generated pornographic material, which applies to some of the biggest porn sites in the U.K. like Pornhub, will have to implement the same checks by July 2025. This also applies to social media platforms that allow pornographic content like Elon Musk’s X and Reddit. These platforms have the option of either removing adult content for everyone, age-checking all users, or age-gating pornographic material on the site. UK joins global push on porn “We’ll be monitoring the response from industry closely,” said Dawes. “Those companies that fail to meet these new requirements can expect to face enforcement action from Ofcom.” The regulator is launching an enforcement program initially focused on sites that publish their own pornographic content. It will contact adult services to inform them of their new duties under the Online Safety Act, and take action in the face of non-compliance.  The U.K.’s push to prevent children from viewing pornography follows similar moves in France as well as several U.S. states. But globally, porn sites have proved resilient to implementing age checks. While some have introduced measures in response to state-level laws in the U.S., Pornhub’s parent company Aylo has so far resisted. Instead, the company has suspended its sites within states with age assurance rules. Some state laws have also faced legal challenges. Aylo has argued that the rules are poorly formulated and that any age-checking should take place at the level of the app store instead. It has claimed the requirement for age assurance only pushes people onto less regulated and less safe sites. “We are monitoring developments and will always ensure our sites are compliant,” an Aylo spokesperson told POLITICO in November. End of an age-blind internet Thursday’s guidance is the latest under the U.K.’s Online Safety Act, following publication of Ofcom’s illegal harms codes last month. Internet sites in scope of the act must assess how likely it is children will access their service by April 16. The regulator anticipates that, unless sites are already using highly effective age assurance, most will have to conclude that they are likely to be accessed by children. Services in this category will have to comply with additional children’s risk assessment duties and Protection of Children Codes, with Ofcom expected to publish final versions of both in April. They will then have until July to conduct a children’s risk assessment. After this, they will need to implement measures to protect children, including introducing age checks to ascertain which of their users are under-18 and shield them from harmful content.

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