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>Nope. It's fascinating how many people believe this, but it isn't what that law says They do because it's true and that's exactly what the law says. Digital
by Brotkrumen 8y ago
>Nope. It's fascinating how many people believe this, but it isn't what that law says
They do because it's true and that's exactly what the law says.
Digital Economy Act 2017 14 (1):
>A person contravenes this subsection if the person makes pornographic material available on the internet to persons in the United Kingdom on a commercial basis other than in a way that secures that, at any given time, the material is not normally accessible by persons under the age of 18.
Section 23: Regulator’s power to require internet service providers to block access to material
(1) Where the age-verification regulator considers that a person (“the non-complying person”) is—
(a)contravening section 14(1), or
- tialaramex 8y agoLike its predecessor, the Digital Economy Act 2017 has a huge amount of text that's basically predicated on the relevant Minister pushing the button. And of course this text is a huge mess (which is why it doesn't take effect immediately, the intent is you can come back and fix it before pushing the button) and so in reality nobody pushes the button. Section 23 is one of those parts. The hypothetical regulator doesn't exist, the infrastructure for all this doesn't exist. None of this is actually law. Go read the "commencement" section - it's actually eye-opening to do this for other laws you've heard are supposed to have drastic effects.