Editorial: Damaging both to the producers and the consumers, online pornography is finally being tackled
Successive governments have been under pressure to control children’s access to pornography and, after years of wrangling, something is to be done on 1 April, when regulations will come into effect that make age verification compulsory on commercial pornographic websites. No one under 18 will be able to access them legitimately. That, at least, is the theory. In practice the regulations have been attacked both for being too onerous and too easy to evade.
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