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Age verification efforts in UK are underway to block pornography access for minors– www.lifesitenews.com
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(LifeSiteNews) — For decades, the pornography industry has taken advantage of laws protecting free speech to disseminate their depraved and highly addictive content. With the advent of the internet and the invention of the smartphone, however, porn addiction among the young has become normative, and governments are finally recognizing that we face a profound cultural crisis.

Our collective sexual economy has been shredded by ubiquitous porn use, and scarcely a week goes by without more profoundly depressing evidence of that fact surfacing in the press, from the prevalence of “choking” to the role of pornography in fueling the transgender movement.

The United Kingdom has been attempting to implement “age verification” for sites where pornography can be accessed for years, and after a series of false starts, the BBC reported on January 16 that the process is finally underway.

“All websites on which pornographic material can be found, including social media platforms, must introduce ‘robust’ age-checking techniques such as demanding photo ID or running credit card checks for UK users by July,” the BBC noted. “The long-awaited guidance, issued by regulator Ofcom, has been made under the Online Safety Act (OSA), and is intended to prevent children from easily accessing pornography online.”