"Our sites, which host legal and regulated porn, will no longer be available in the UK to new users, while thousands of irresponsible porn sites remain easy to access,"
"use age checks to protect users as required under the Act, or block access to their sites in the UK"
"darker, unregulated corners of the internet"
"difficult decision"
From 2 February only existing Pornhub account holders will be able to access the site in the UK, with the same restriction for Aylo-owned YouPorn and Redtube. Aylo said the UK's age-check regime had failed to protect children and pushed users towards "darker, unregulated corners of the internet". The company reported a 77% fall in traffic to Pornhub after the new requirements took effect last summer. Aylo initially complied expecting Ofcom to enforce the rules, but after six months said the Act had not stopped children accessing adult content. Ofcom rejected that assessment and said services must "use age checks to protect users as required under the Act, or block access to their sites in the UK"; it described the rules as "flexible and proportionate" and noted widespread sector adoption. The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology said the law does not prevent adults from viewing legal content and does not force companies to leave the UK.
Read at Business Matters
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]