South Africa is mulling taking the same route as the UK by implementing a defacto online porn block, in a bid to reduce access to pornography by underage users. In a report released last month by the South African Law Reform Commission (SALRC) titled Pornography and Children, provisional recommendations were made to block all digital […]
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Spain is set to roll out an app-based age verification process allowing adults to access porn in the country, as the authorities prepare for an EU law regarding porn and age verification that currently looks likely to come into force in 2027. The new ‘porn passport’ process, as it has been dubbed in parts of […]
A website content-blocker and app promising ‘Shariah compliant’ browsing has launched, aimed at Muslims who want to filter out content that might compromise the teachings of Islam, including porn. The Turkish startup company Halalz launched a browser extension named Kahf Browser and a web app named Kahf Halal Browser, for Android and iOS, which along […]
India has blocked a slew of porn sites including Pornhub, Brazzers and BangBros in the government’s latest round of website bans. The country’s Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY), in an order dated September 24, 2022, instigated the blocking of 67 websites including the aforementioned porn sites, in a move that will likely cut off […]
xHamster has been blocked in Germany by the country’s main internet service providers (ISPs), after the country’s Commission for Youth Media Protection ruled that the site had breached Germany’s Youth Media Protection State Treaty. Porn site xHamster, which is based in Cyprus and operated by Hammy Media Ltd, was targeted due to not having age […]
A plan to force any website that “publish or place” porn content —including social media services— to conduct user age checks is being newly-pushed by the UK government, which claims that existing age restriction laws don’t go far enough by only focusing on dedicated porn sites. On February 8 2022, the UK government’s Department for […]
