Age verification for porn sites won't work

• Autores: Sally Adee
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3112, 2017, pág. 25
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Adee discusses the UK's Digital Economy bill. The bill was meant to make the country a competitive player on the digital scene. And the bill really does need amending, because key concerns have been left unaddressed. Alongside gestures like everyone having the right to broadband, it also contains some head-scratchers. One is the Sisyphean requirement that all adult sites in the world be vetted by the British Board of Film Classification. That's just impractical, but one provision is actually dangerous: a requirement for age verification for all sites and applications containing pornographic material, in an attempt to protect children.