A redo with the updated deadline:
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 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.
If:
a) There is credible proof that attempting to access PornHub, from the UK, starting July 25th, requires an age-check
OR
b) PornHub blocks access to UK users, citing the this policy as the reason
then this resolves YES
Further info:
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uks-ofcom-sets-july-deadline-mandatory-age-verification-2025-04-24/
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3.00Did they learn NOTHING from the failed attempts at this in the US? The site just pulls service in the region, and everyone either starts using VPNs or going to more obscure more harmful sites. It's the war on drugs and prohibition all over again.
I might be wrong but it seems a better solution might be to just have a site that has a vetted selection of safer content that is promoted to adolescents in place of the less content-restricted adult one. Potentially it might also make sense for the adult one to have rules a bit like smoking i.e. no advertising, must have warning disclaimers about the potential harms etc.