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Online Pornography: Age Verification

I know the hon. Gentleman’s long-standing commitment to and interest in this issue. He is right that we should not accept that someone simply

ticking a box or saying, “I am 18,” is sufficient for the companies concerned. The regulations that we have laid once, and will now re-lay, make it clear that from the point of view of the BBFC, as the regulator, that will not be an acceptable way of complying with the regulations. Companies will need to do more than that. There will need to be a way of demonstrating that someone is over 18 before they have access to this material so that companies can be sure of that fact, with us as legislators being sure that we are taking every measure that we can to keep young people away from material that will be harmful to them.

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Reference

662 c372 

Session

2017-19

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber
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