article_snippet.sent: If porn websites fail to comply, porn websites will be blocked by a powerful new regulator which will be able to issue financial penalties.
article_snippet.sent: Ministers have already persuaded internet service providers to start contacting all 19million UK households connected to the web and making internet service providers choose whether to apply family-friendly filters that block all porn sites.
article_snippet.sent: In addition, for any new broadband users, a block on pornographic websites is automatically applied by default.
article_snippet.sent: Customers now have to specifically ask for this filter to be removed – or to 'opt in' – in order to able to access adult material.
article_snippet.sent: It is because of these types of concerns that we have long restricted and regulated adult content in the offline world – magazines, TV, DVDs or video-on-demand content. '
article_snippet.sent: If websites showing adult content don't have proper age controls in place
article_snippet.sent: An independent regulator will also be given the power to require UK service providers to block specific websites identified as distributing hardcore pornography without effective age verification controls in place.
article_snippet.sent: It is because of these types of concerns that we have long restricted and regulated adult content in the offline world – whether that is magazines, TV programmes, DVDs or video-on-demand content.
article_snippet.sent: Of course adults should be perfectly free to look at these sites.
article_snippet.sent: But if websites showing adult content don’t have proper age controls in place
article_snippet.sent: No sex shop on the high street would be allowed to remain open if No sex shop on the high street knowingly sold pornography to underage customers, and there is no reason why the internet should be any different.
article_snippet.sent: We are clear: adults should and will be free to view legal content, but We would never stand by and allow that 12-year-old boy to buy hardcore pornography from a sex shop.