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Recently, porn providers in the UK have been told to implement age-verifying technology for their users, including, sometimes, ID checks.

The idea behind the change was partly to prevent children from accessing pornography. Seven in 10 Brits support age verification for platforms that may host harmful content (though only 14% say they’d be happy to provide their own proof of age for porn sites).

But Marcus Johnstone of PCD Solicitors previously told HuffPost UK that the law may “lead to teenagers attempting to access adult material on the increasing number of smaller, more fringe websites that are not subject to the same internal safeguards as the porn giants”.

He is one of many detractors. People have cited “glaring privacy risks”, “intrusive” oversight, and a general lack of internet “freedom” when........

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