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El Reg talks to PornHub sister biz AgeID – and an indie pornographer – about age verification

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Easter

This isn't real, is it? We're already at february. Have they told all these thousands of American companies that they need to do this to show smut to the UK?

Here's the thing: this is basically, really, uncontrollable except at a home level. Install a filter on your PC. That'll stop the kids accidentally typing something. And when they're old enough to start looking for it, you really might as well just let them get on with it. If you think you're going to actually stop a teenage boy seeing porn, you're incredibly naive. Worst case, one kid in the school year gets hold of his dad's ID and starts sharing it or sharing videos via some mechanism with his friends.

Media control only ever really worked when it was physical and had stockists. You could stop a cinema showing Life of Brian. Try that today. People will be streaming it from Chinese flash sites.

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