"Our research shows that pornography is all too readily accessible to children online today, and that children as young as eight and nine are accessing porn sites," Ofcom's online safety lead Gill Whitehead tells me in an interview. "The majority of those are coming across it accidentally and stumbling across it on the web." Ofcom's press release cites research that suggests nearly eight in 10 children have seen "violent pornography depicting coercive, degrading or pain-inducing sex acts" before turning 18.
Critics raised numerous privacy and technical concerns with the previous approach, and the plans were eventually shelved with the hope that the Online Safety Act (then emerging as the Online Harms White Paper) would offer a better way forward.
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