Web users in the UK will be banned from accessing websites portraying a range of nonconventional sexual acts, under a little discussed clause to a government bill currently going through parliament. It is contained within provisions of the bill designed to enforce strict age verification checks to stop children accessing adult websites. In order to comply with the censorship rules, many mainstream adult websites would have to render whole sections inaccessible to UK audiences. Even some who back age verification questioned such strict censorship. A spokeswoman for MindGeek, one of the world’s biggest pornographic website operators, said the company expected that structures would be created to “maintain the rights of adults to view adult content”.

Source: The Guardian November 23, 2016 09:33 UTC