The article, “UK Scraps Plan to Enforce Age Checks on Pornography Websites,” is about the UK government’s idea to have an age verification restriction on pornography sites. However, this plan was not followed through and thrown to the wolves. The government’s idea was for people to prove their age by showing their government issued IDs, credit cards, passports, etc; there would be a need to verify legitimate proof of age. Furthermore, if a website did not follow these guidelines, they would have been blocked by the UK internet service providers. However, the UK government is not enforcing these restrictions and dropped all of these plans. People criticized all of these ideas. These people claimed that this can create a massive hacking target for blackmailers. They will continue to allow people of any age be able to watch pornography. It will never be known whether this could have been helpful for children under the age of 18 or detrimental.
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I agree that this plan would create a massive hacking target for blackmailers. It is really dangerous to show government issued IDs credit cards and passwords… But it is really dangerous and unhealthy if children under age of 18 watch pornography. Thus more other ideas is needed. For example, like using real Id and so on.