Age Verification

In the UK the government has passed legislation requiring those who wish to access legal pornography online to have to go through an age verification process.  Originally planned to come into operation this April it has now been postponed until the end of the year.  The UK is the only democratic country to attempt to enforce such a regulation and so far it seems to offer huge financial rewards for one of the biggest pornography empires in the world and run the risk of extremely sensitive private information falling into the wrong hands.  It doesn't appear to recognise that, by using VPNs (Virtual Private Networks), people in the UK can log into porn sites from elsewhere in the world and the whole thing seems to have been dreamt up by people with very little understanding of technology or pornography.  The video below is taken from the blog of Pandora Blake who campaigns on these issues and is published here under the "Fair Use" doctrine.

UPDATE 17th MARCH  - Check out this academic article on the same subject area which explains the issues much better than I could.