Porn block plans 'fail before they begin'

[DVTimes]

Proposals to restrict underage access to pornography are doomed to failure, an anti-censorship group has warned.

Video-on-demand regulator ATVOD wants to forbid credit and debit card operators from processing payments on websites that do not offer age checks.

But Sex and Censorship, a group that campaigns for "free speech and sexual freedom", says the watchdog's own research shows the most popular adult site for underage users doesn't require users to pay or enter card details.

In a blog for the group, adult producer Ben Yates wrote: "Of course, this proposal, along with many other Government-backed ideas on stopping children watching porn, simply fails before it begins.

"Tube sites and forums don?t require payment or age verification and present streaming hardcore [pornography] almost immediately," he added.



http://www.itv.com/news/update/2014-...re-they-begin/

[DVTimes]

ATVOD have demonstrated that they are a small group punching above their weight in a Worldwide industry where more than half don’t even know who they are. It is an organisation that looks more and more like it was set up as a way to generate an income for an industry that was still making money during the recession and where the entire top-tier of management not only exceed the number of actual employees but their combined salary is one similar to a bankers annual income, minus the bonus of course.

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http://sexandcensorship.org/2014/03/...e-adult-sites/