Activists, parents and regulators believe tech corporations are not doing enough to protect children from exposure to adult content. Laws in France and Germany requite pornography websites to check visitors' ages. People in Japan must provide a document proving their age before downloading the dating app Tinder (interestingly not for porn sites and their legal age for sex is almost the lowest worldwide as young as 13).
Some argue that such changes would upend the internet ability to stay anonymous with their online identities.
With European Union's rules for video and audio services requiring sites to protect minors by checking users' ages, Google responded by asking some YouTuber users to provide identification documents or credit card details before they could watch adults-only videos.
83% of UK parents say there should be age-verification controls in place for online porn, while only 47% children agree. What’s your take on this issue? Should privacy be sacrificed for the sake of avoiding underaged children to access porn? Let a comment!
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Bbfc. (2019, September 26). Children see pornography as young as seven, new report finds. Home. Retrieved January 2, 2022, from https://www.bbfc.co.uk/about-us/news/children-see-pornography-as-young-as-seven-new-report-finds