It requires age-checking measures for pornographic content, a requirement that has been extended to mainstream social media platforms and not just dedicated adult content providers such as Pornhub. The changes include a form of age rating for adult material.
The government said the review would be separate from the online safety bill, which is expected to become law this year and introduces a number of changes regarding pornography. The review will also look at the role of the pornography industry in trafficking and exploiting adult performers, and how extreme and non-consensual online pornographic content is dealt with. This year the children’s commissioner for England, Rachel de Souza, published research that showed frequent users of pornography were more likely to carry out physically aggressive sex acts. The government said this would make sure that illegal pornographic content, such as material featuring child sexual abuse or adult exploitation, was dealt with “robustly”. The review will also consider how children are informed about the harms caused by pornography, by looking at what more can be done to provide children with the right information and resources. “The government wants to ensure any pornography legislation and regulation operates consistently for all pornographic content.” “There are currently different regimes that address the publication and distribution of commercial pornographic material offline, such as videos, and online,” said the government in a statement. The forthcoming online safety bill does not propose a BBFC-style ratings regime for online pornography but will introduce tough age-checking requirements for sites that show adult material. The BBFC classifies adult content as 18 or R18, with the latter banned from mainstream TV and available in licensed sex shops only. The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) is the main regulator of pornography in the UK but it does not have online powers and has told MPs that pornographic content it would refuse to classify is “freely accessible” online.
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