The UK’s online porn crackdown could harm young people more than it helps

Won’t somebody please think of the children!?” The UK government seems to be using this catchphrase from The Simpsons as the basis for its proposed new pornography laws. Its recently announced plan to force pornographic websites to verify users’ ages suggests it thinks it can use a blunt technological tool to stop under 18s watching online porn. Anyone as tech-savvy as the average teenager will tell you how unlikely this is. The move is part of a barrage of recent measures to clamp down on online porn in the UK. The government aims to to protect young people from what…

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