Is the UKs age-verification law working? Kinda.
15-07-2026 23:30 via mashable.com

Is the UKs age-verification law working? Kinda.

Close to a year after the enactment of the UK's age assurance law, the Online Safety Act, Ofcom, the UK's communications regulator, has released a report on its progress. The Online Safety Act requires robust age checks for sites that have content "restricted to adults," which extends from pornography to non-explicit content like the r/stopsmoking subreddit.UK age verification, one year laterOfcom has found that these age checks are now being deployed on an "unprecedented scale" across various s
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