Campaigners are 'astonished' by a loophole in the government's Online Safety Bill that could put pornography websites 'outside its scope'. Porn sites have a combination of user-generated content (uploaded by people who visit the sites themselves) and content created by official partners. The UK government published the draft Online Safety Bill on May 12. Government said at the time age checks would be delivered through its 'proposed online harms regulatory regime' – in other words, the Online Safety Bill. While age verification checks were absent from last week's draft Online Safety Bill, experts think it has simply been put aside for now.

Source: The Nation May 18, 2021 18:22 UTC