The UK government is preparing to stop kids from being spoiled by watching adult content by preventing anyone from doing so unless they go through a stringent age verification process.
Websites that do not belong to the blocks could find themselves being blocked completely within the UK. In simple terms, its strategy is to require pornographic websites to verify users are over 18 before they view content, with various age verification providers verifying for their customers using a variety of different methods. As of October 16, 2019, the Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) released the entire porn block. Culture secretary Nicky Morgan, in a written statement, said the government wasn’t going to pursue the implementation of Part 3 of the Digital Economy Act.
“The Digital Economy Act objectives will, therefore, be delivered through our proposed online harms regulatory regime,” Morgan said. Technically the porn block is a method of age checks. From the launch date in July, porn websites will need to show anyone visiting from a UK IP address a landing page that doesn’t show any explicit content. This landing page won’t disappear until the visitor is able to show they’re over 18 – old enough to view the adult sensitive content. Officially, it’s called age verification. These blocks will vary in structure from one website to another but there’s one thing that’s common: this approach is the first series of age checks being placed on porn anywhere around the world.
Impacts:
As soon as the ban is in effect it will ask asking for ID proof before you can see any adult content.
Not only the major websites Pornhub, xHamster and YouPorn but also a number of other porn websites will start asking for your identification documents to verify your age on their system.
But these two aren’t the only websites to be involved in the new system. You’ll see that various other porn websites will start asking for your recognized identification documents to verify your age. The primary impact will be the degraded privacy of the people who upload their information. Stringent privacy guidelines have to implement for the firms that maintain user data.
Any technical glitch could cause the massive release of personal info of users’ data into the open stream which might cause deliberate effects on their personal lives.
Remedies:
By utilizing sophisticated VPNs: This will encrypt your data and reroute it through one of its own servers. This means that when you access a porn website, it will not recognize your original country.
- They are very convenient to use and flexible to install and use.
- They enhance the speed of access to the banned content.