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Who's the lobby behind it? Or is pure conservative Weltanschauung? Edit: Fixed punctuation.

• adwww 8y ago
  Mindgeek lobbied hard for this. They (owners of Pornhub etc) are the government's approved age verifiers, so are in theory now in charge of access to all the other porn sites.
  • Phillips126 8y ago
    wow... just wow...
  • sambull 8y ago
    Now the law makes complete sense.
  • ahnick 8y ago
    Haha, that is unbelievable... https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/government-porn-id-check-mindgeek-porn-hub-digital-economy-act-bbfc-a8820016.html https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/government-porn-id-chec...
  • andrepd 8y ago
    Aaand of course. What else could it be, but the economic power moving to write laws to benefit themselves, stifle competition, overrule the will of the people, and impose their rules on all of us.
  • tomjen3 8y ago
    They also give away free premium memberships to a degree that will shock even Audible, probably because a known user is worth so much more.