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Why additional layers of content filtering won’t work in the UK

April 6, 2015

Why additional layers of content filtering won’t work in the UK

Today I wrote a post entitled "Why the UK doesn’t need age verification to stop kids from accessing pornography", to which Bob W. Smagge, who has been involved in the EU initiative to create a Better Internet for Kids for several years, responded. Bob directed me to this post that he wrote on the subject. It's a balanced opin...

Why the UK doesn’t need age verification to stop kids from accessing pornography

April 6, 2015

Why the UK doesn’t need age verification to stop kids from accessing pornography

I agree with the principals of online age verification and the desire to introduce something that works. This is an area that I've researched over the years. We even held work shops with management from ICM Registry to see if we could come up with something that worked for .XXX websites. In short, we didn't get beyond research....