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8/20/2025, 12:45:48 PM No.513529772
>Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn438z3ejxyo
>The government needs to stop children using virtual private networks (VPNs) to bypass age checks on porn sites, the children's commissioner for England has said.
>Dame Rachel de Souza told BBC Newsnight it was "absolutely a loophole that needs closing" and called for age verification on VPNs.
>The children's commissioner's recommendation is included in a new report, which found the proportion of children saying they have seen pornography online has risen in the past two years.
>Last month VPNs were the most downloaded apps on Apple's App Store in the UK after sites such as PornHub, Reddit and X began requiring age verification.
>Dame Rachel told BBC Newsnight: "Of course, we need age verification on VPNs - it's absolutely a loophole that needs closing and that's one of my major recommendations."
>She wants ministers to explore requiring VPNs "to implement highly effective age assurances to stop underage users from accessing pornography."
More than half of respondents to the survey had viewed strangulation as children, prompting Dame Rachel to also ask the government to ban depictions of it.
>Pornography depicting rape of a sleeping person was also seen by 44% of respondents as children.
>The data was gathered prior to the amendments to the Online Safety Act in July, which brought in age verification tools for pornography.
>The Department of Science, Innovation and Technology told the BBC "children have been left to grow up in a lawless online world for too long" and "the Online Safety Act is changing that'.
I'm old enough to remember when they were justifying building a surveillance state by terrorism. Whenever you were, there's always was a possibility of a terrorist attack. But the times are changing and now they're using the instincts of middle-aged women to shove the cyber-gulags down out throats.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn438z3ejxyo
>The government needs to stop children using virtual private networks (VPNs) to bypass age checks on porn sites, the children's commissioner for England has said.
>Dame Rachel de Souza told BBC Newsnight it was "absolutely a loophole that needs closing" and called for age verification on VPNs.
>The children's commissioner's recommendation is included in a new report, which found the proportion of children saying they have seen pornography online has risen in the past two years.
>Last month VPNs were the most downloaded apps on Apple's App Store in the UK after sites such as PornHub, Reddit and X began requiring age verification.
>Dame Rachel told BBC Newsnight: "Of course, we need age verification on VPNs - it's absolutely a loophole that needs closing and that's one of my major recommendations."
>She wants ministers to explore requiring VPNs "to implement highly effective age assurances to stop underage users from accessing pornography."
More than half of respondents to the survey had viewed strangulation as children, prompting Dame Rachel to also ask the government to ban depictions of it.
>Pornography depicting rape of a sleeping person was also seen by 44% of respondents as children.
>The data was gathered prior to the amendments to the Online Safety Act in July, which brought in age verification tools for pornography.
>The Department of Science, Innovation and Technology told the BBC "children have been left to grow up in a lawless online world for too long" and "the Online Safety Act is changing that'.
I'm old enough to remember when they were justifying building a surveillance state by terrorism. Whenever you were, there's always was a possibility of a terrorist attack. But the times are changing and now they're using the instincts of middle-aged women to shove the cyber-gulags down out throats.
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