UK Porn Block Law and May Adopt Own Version is Under 'Review' to Ireland

Prime Minister Leo Varadkar also called for ‘Digital Safety Commissioner’ to regulate online content

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With the United Kingdom planning to implement a new, long-planned law blocking online porn sites to anyone under 18 years of age—a law that critics call a "privacy time bomb," as AVN.com reported—the country next door to the U.K., the Republic of Ireland, is now considering a porn block law of its own.The U.K. law will, at least in theory, block all online porn sites unless users upload potentially sensitive personal documents providing proof of age. Other countries, including India and China—which between them account for 37 percent of the global population—have imposed online censorship blocking, or attempting to block, porn sites.But the U.K. law will institute an "age verification" system where porn will remain available, but only to those willing to prove their age. It will be the first of its kind in the world.On Thursday, however, the U.K. government was expected to announce that the implementation of  law, passed in 2017, would again be delayed indefinitely, according to sources who spoke to This link (news.sky.com) is not approved. Submit this link for approval, a development that will likely set back Ireland's own efforts to create its own law.According to a report by the This link (www.thejournal.ie) is not approved. Submit this link for approval, Ireland's Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan has now confirmed that Ireland is considering implementing its own version of the UK porn block law.And on Wednesday, Irish Prime Minister—or Taoiseach, as the post is called in Ireland—Leo Varadkar (pictured above) said that the This link (www.thejournal.ie) is not approved. Submit this link for approval with its U.K. counterpart to "review" how well the porn block law works there.Varadkar also gave the green light for the Communications Committee in Ireland's parliament, or Oireachtas, to open discussions on an Irish porn blocking law. …the next moment changed everything

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