A law of the United Kingdom that requires that websites of pornography verify the age of its users in force on Friday.
BBC reports That around 6,000 porn sites have said that they will begin to verify the ages of the users to meet the Online Security LawAlthough at least an important site did not require age controls from Friday morning.
The law also requires that online platforms prevent children from being exposed to harmful content, so sites As RedditBluesky, X and Grindr have also begun to ask users in the United Kingdom to verify their age through the average including selfies or identifications issued by the Government.
This is only one in a series of new child protection laws that could normalize online age controls worldwide, According to the wiring. The approach has been Criticized by groups As the electronic Frontier Foundation as a threat to online privacy and anonymity, in fact, is Horth pointing out that in A recent rape of the appointment safety applicationMany of the affected images were selfies and digital identifications loaded for the verification of the account.
Some Internet users can try Give age controls Through the use of false identifications, selfies or video game characters, or VPN.
