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Originally Posted by Bladewire
It starts with age verification for the UK. Then the UK will want you to pay a tax for each verified UK resident that subscribed to your site.
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All the EU states including the UK want you to charge their citizens VAT tax now, 20% on each payment and remit it to the UK if you are anywhere (extraterritorial taxation) now. This tax is on any automated download or service; software downloads, porn downloads, SaaS services, host servers ... any automated process that has minimal human intervention.
https://www.taxamo.com/ get up to speed ...
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Then the UK will want a yearly $500 adult site fee to "protect the children".
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VISA and Mastercard do this now and they will roll over with your personal info and site info to the UK government -- VISA net has legal nexus in the UK (physical location) and they are subject to UK laws.
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Then the UK will dictate what content you provide.. and on.. and on... and on and if you don't comply they'll block your site 
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They do this now in the UK. In the US we have U.S.C. §§ 2256,2257,2257A doing the same but that law is in conflict with the EU Data Privacy Laws and now the GDPR. It is not unlawful only when a model consents to their personal data being divulged under certain circumstances.
The UK can do whatever they want to do to their citizens -- that is sovereignty. Chinese IPs hit my domain servers all the time LMAO. The "Great Firewall of China" doesn't seem to work as well as the press would have you believe, or; they are all Chinese Internet censors checking on domains to block -- that could be too... Processing payments from China is tricky, some Chinese businessmen have western credit cards. There is more money to be made in China than the UK but you cannot access the people nor the financial networks (now and not surreptitiously). Many UK high-rollers travel and have access to foreign banks and foreign (non UK) credit card networks. These people will still be buying from non UK websites regardless. The intermediate impact will be minimal as the big porn buyers adapt -- they hardly want their bosses and the public knowing that they are buying porn LOL.
New Nick thinks I am being an '
arse' < that is a UK English expression. I am going to assume that this will affect you personally -- don't think it won't cost you compliance money. If the Brits get a larger share of their home market because of this -- so be it.