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Plans for online pornography age checks dropped

Age verification measures designed to prevent children from accessing online pornography have been dropped, the Government has announced. Under the scrapped plans, people would have to prove their age in a number of ways, including using traditional forms of ID such as a credit card or passport, or by buying an over-the-counter card from shops…

16th October 201916th October 2019 Chris Price Internet, News

7 year olds have seen porn online, BBFC survey reveals

Children as young as seven and eight have stumbled across porn online, according to a survey by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC). More than half of children barely in their teens said that they had stumbled across pornography, with the majority saying it was unintentional. Fifty one per cent of those aged 11…

26th September 201926th September 2019 Chris Price Internet, News

Twitch apologises to Ninja for pornography promotion on old channel

Streaming site Twitch has apologised to gaming star Ninja after it emerged that his dormant channel page was used to recommend pornography. The American Fortnite gamer, whose real name is Tyler Blevins, recently jumped ship from Amazon-owned streaming giant Twitch, to Microsoft’s Mixer platform. Since leaving at the beginning of August, Ninja’s former streaming space…

12th August 201913th August 2019 Chris Price Gaming, News

Online age verification tools for porn sites come into force in July

Age verification tools required on porn sites to prevent underage internet users seeing explicit content will be introduced in July. The measures, the first of their kind anywhere in the world, will require porn sites by law to carry out “robust age-verification checks on users”, the government has said. Websites that fail to implement the…

17th April 201917th April 2019 Chris Price Internet, News

Tumblr pulled from Apple’s App Store over child pornography content

Social network and microblogging site Tumblr was pulled from Apple’s App Store last week because of images depicting child sex abuse, it has emerged. Tumblr initially said it was “working to resolve the issue with the iOS app” when it mysteriously disappeared on November 16. Download.com learned that Tumblr was removed from the store due…

20th November 201820th November 2018 Chris Price Social Media

Introducing Offbeatr, the Kickstarter for crowd-funded porn

Kickstarter is proving the go-to online stomping ground for the modern, budding entrepreneur, letting them present ideas and projects to a wide, receptive audience who (so far at least) seem very willing to dip into their pockets and take a…

15th August 201222nd February 2021 Gerald Lynch Features, Tech Digest news, Websites

1 in 10 blokes use net for porn, Pope remains Catholic

Startling new research from MyVoucherCodes.co.uk shows that almost 1 in 10 men use the net primarily for watching pornography. The groundbreaking, and frankly shocking, news reveals that 8% of1,183 the men asked admitted to mostly using the internet to view…

10th November 201021st September 2020 Gerald Lynch Internet, Tech Digest news

World's first 3D Porn film released: Kama-Sutra takes wobbly bits into the third dimension

It was only a matter of time; the world's first stereoscopic 3D porn film has been made, looking set to get your 3D specs all steamed up. Produced by Mark Dorcel (apparently the "Hugh Hefner" of European porn), the…

21st May 20107th April 2017 Gerald Lynch 3D TV, Tech Digest news

.xxx domain names still being considered

Websites with a .xxx suffix are still being considered by the Global Internet Oversight Agency, new reports have shown. Talks are still taking place to discuss what the potential benefits of introducing the new domains could bring to the internet….

15th March 20102nd April 2017 Gerald Lynch Internet, Tech Digest news, Websites

SFW: Teen mobile nudewave strikes America

Earlier this month, a 15-year-old girl was arrested in Ohio for sending nude pictures of herself to friends via her mobile phone. After a local prosecutor visited the school to talk about the dangers of sending nude photos of minors around, the girl stuck two fingers up to authority and snapped some photos of herself, then sent them to friends…

23rd October 200818th September 2017 Duncan Geere Mobile phones, Weirdness