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.
In April, we opened an investigation into an online suicide forum. Last month, we launched investigations into three pornographic services – Itai Tech and Score Internet Group – which run the nudification site Undress.cc and the pornography site Scoreland.com respectively – and Kick Online Entertainment, which provides the pornography site Motherless.com.
We're not going down this path. This means we would have to geoblock the entire UK and leave you with tor browser or a VPN.
It's already happening. Kiwifarms folded.
Now it's 4chans turn.
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In April, we opened an investigation into an online suicide forum. Last month, we launched investigations into three pornographic services – Itai Tech and Score Internet Group – which run the nudification site Undress.cc and the pornography site Scoreland.com respectively – and Kick Online Entertainment, which provides the pornography site Motherless.com.
We're not going down this path. This means we would have to geoblock the entire UK and leave you with tor browser or a VPN.
It's already happening. Kiwifarms folded.
Now it's 4chans turn.
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