Porn site age-check law demanded by media regulator
Found on BBC News on Friday, 28 March 2014
Video-on-demand watchdog Atvod said the government must act to protect children from seeing graphic adult material.
Payment processors would be ordered not to handle fees for premium services - such as higher definition or longer clips - from UK citizens to unregistered sites.
Again this old and retarded argumentation: protect the children. That's the job of the parents. If they fail to raise their children within an acceptable moral environment, maybe they shouldn't have any in the first place. Then politicians wouldn't have to come up with such half-baked ideas; nobody told them probably that the majority doesn't pay for porn anyway and websites which offer it for free won't even bother to shrug. On the other hand, maybe this is part of the plan and together with the existing "family filters" the officials try to extend the censoring.