Ban misogynistic online pornography, review to propose
Online pornography with degradation, violence and misogyny should be banned, the industry’s censorship said.
The measures proposed in the review were commissioned by the previous government and led by conservative companion Gabby Bertin, which is understood to make possession or publication of pornography illegal to show that women are suffocated during their sexual life.
After being appointed by Rishi Sunak’s government, Baroness Bertin made it clear that she would not approach the topic from a cautious or disapproving standpoint.
She will make 32 suggestions on what measures should be taken by the “high harm department” of legal online porn.
The comment will be published later and it is expected to argue that any certificated porn videos in the offline world should be banned online.
If someone disagrees, but the online description is not illegal, non-fatal strangulation has become a crime.
Comments show that porn sites have normalized this behavior in the real world, with violence and stained substances prevailing on mainstream platforms in the absence of “totally without government censorship.”
Ministers will be urged to give regulators new powers to prosecute online platforms that refuse to remove harmful content.
The Ministry of Science Innovation and Technology said it will respond to the recommendations once a parliament is proposed.
Measures to increase pornographic regulations, including preventing children from entering, have become part of the Online Safety Act, which became law in October 2023.
Services that publish their own pornography (including with generated AI tools) already require age checks.
Starting from July, all websites where pornographic materials can be found will also have to introduce “rosy” age checking techniques, such as demanding photo IDs or running credit card checks for UK users.
Ofcom estimates that about one-third of adult Internet users (14 million) in the UK watch online porn, about three-quarters of them are male.
