Urgent action is needed to address child access to online porn

James Mildred  |  Features  |  politics & policy
Date posted:  1 Oct 2020
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Exactly a year ago, the UK Government performed one of the most extraordinary U-turns of the last 20 years.

On 16 October, Nicky Morgan told the House of Commons that plans to introduce age verification for online pornography were being abandoned, despite MPs and Peers approving the scheme and the regulations required to implement it.

Poised to lead

The UK had been poised to lead the world in the creation and implementation of age controls, but instead, the government chose to give it up. Instead, the issue of children watching online porn would be dealt with in a new Online Harms Bill as part of a ‘comprehensive approach’.

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