Companies within the scope of the act must introduce safety measures to protect children from harmful content. This means all pornography sites must have in place rigorous age-checking procedures. Ofcom, the UK communications regulator and the act’s enforcer, found that 8% of children aged eight to 14 had visited an online pornography site or app over a month-long period… More here.

Inevitably, the new act will not work for those children who really want to access unsuitable content, but you have to try something. Parents cannot control this.

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