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UK Age Verification Data Confirms What Critics Always Predicted: Mass Migration To Sketchier Sites
New data from the UK’s age verification rollout provides hard evidence of what internet governance experts have been warning about for years: these laws don’t protect children—they syst…
New data from the UK’s age verification rollout provides hard evidence of what internet governance experts have been warning about for years: these laws don’t protect children—they systematically drive users from regulated, compliant platforms to unregulated, non-compliant ones while accomplishing nothing except creating a massive privacy surveillance apparatus. To evaluate the early effectiveness of the law’s rollout, The Post gathered U.K. visitor estimates over the past year for 90 of the largest porn sites as ranked by the market intelligence firm Similarweb. Companies seeking to comply with the law must pay for the age checks, whose costs can quickly climb; an Indiana judge said last year that one porn site, Pornhub, faced potential charges of more than $13 million a day.
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