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Online age verification is the Tory-led coalition government's latest obsession, after it lobbied hard for flaccid network-level filtering to be introduced by the UK's biggest ISPs over the course of the last few years. To support Whitehall's latest crusade against smut, Britain's video on demand services regulator is calling …

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  1. hoola Silver badge

    Age verification, an ongoing issue

    This is an increasingly difficult area to police. IT is easy to blame everyone else but everything to do with age ratings is ignored by many parents or the kids themselves.

    There are thousands of accounts on Facebook and other social networking site that belong to children. They have either lied about there age (nothing to stop this) with the consent of the parents or the parents have are oblivious and do not care.

    It is the same with games and DVDs. My son feels left out at school because he does not have Halo. This game is totally unacceptable for 12 years olds but the parents do not care. It is all part of the desensitisation of society and complete shirking of parental responsibility. This goes back at least one generation and may be two. How you solve it I do not know. The big website and internet companies simply do not care as it is all money. The fines levied if they do fall foul of a law are so tiny as to be complely ineffective. If parents are so irresponsible as to not care or actively encourage the behaviour then it is left to the state to put the controls in place. Communisum anyone?

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  2. Zog_but_not_the_first

    Just the facts ma'm

    Are there any proper peer-reviewed studies on the effects of porn against which to measure these pronouncements? They may be right, or they may not be right, but how do we know?

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