- From: Phil Archer <phila@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 11:46:18 -0400
- To: public-vc-wg@w3.org
Dear all, Just a quick FYI, just ahead of the prorogation of parliament to make way for the election, the Digital Economy Bill became UK law yesterday which requires age verification. From the blog post by one of the main advocates of the bill: The Bill addressed many different issues but readers of this blog will want to know that age verification is now a requirement for all significant commercial publishers of pornography, wherever in the world they are based and whether or not they style themselves as being “free”. If they are about making money and they want to have access to the UK market they must have age verification. If they don’t they can be fined and ultimately ISPs will be required to block access to them in roughly the same way that they block access to child abuse images. More at https://johnc1912.wordpress.com/2017/04/27/ring-the-bells/ Phil -- Phil Archer Data Strategist, W3C http://www.w3.org/ http://philarcher.org +44 (0)7887 767755 @philarcher1
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