A creative take on 'social media'—that might almost be funny if it weren’t about exposing millions of kids to adult content every day. Porn is still porn—whether it’s on Pornhub, Twitter (oops, sorry, X 🤭), or even an old-school video store 📽️. Proper age assurance enforcement is essential everywhere to prevent exposure. Let’s focus on solutions that protect children, privacy, and user experience. #ofcom #ageassurance #privacy #onlinesafety
It is hard to believe, but Aylo, owners of Pornhub and many other partner sites which post content onto that site, has told James Titcomb at The Telegraph that they are not actually a 'porn' site, but are in fact a social media site! Their claim is that the site hosts "user" generated content - but many of those users are subsidiaries of Aylo, and the general public cannot post content. Hard to believe, but we have seen the adult sector look for every opportunity to resist or delay #AgeVerification and #AgeEstimation requirements in the courts. Ofcom has not yet published its final guidance and, as part of their formal consultation on the draft version, we highlighted the need for absolute clarity as to which Part of the Act adult sites fall under. The draft guidance already states "We are likely to consider a service provider to have exercised control over the pornographic content appearing on its service where it exercises editorial control over the nature, selection or presentation of the content." Pornhub has helpfully now emphasised the need to tighten this guidance before publication As US judge, Justice Potter Stewart, said back in 1964 when trying to define porn: "I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced... but I know it when I see it ..." British parents will certainly apply the same test, and with Pornhub, the clue is also in the name. Peter Kyle Melanie Dawes https://lnkd.in/eG_Yjy4t