UK - 1st DEC - NEW AGE VERIFICATION NESSESARY

[CrankieMonster]

It's supposed to stop kids using mummy and daddy's internet and discovering porn sites. I suppose free previews is still damaging enough to warrant concealing, it makes sense. Even through totally innocuous web browsing when I was younger I came across some pretty dodgy sites entirely by accident - toilet.com we put in for a laugh when I was about 12, it was some creepy toilet webcam website where you could apparently watch women secretly being filmed in public toilet cubicles. Makes you think, doesn't it?

Downside is though it's a nuisance for people that run the websites and for legitimate consumers. Still, children and adult content/behaviour is a hot topic lately, so I can sort of understand it, even if it's very annoying. They have categorically stated it affects UK sites only, so US and OI imagine european-based websites will be unaffected by this particular ruling, though of course each country might have its own ruling on it.