United Kingdom recently launched Applying Age-Czech Rules of Online Safety ActAnd Washington Post reports that It is already making a significant impact on web traffic,
The UK law now requires pornography websites such as face scan and driver licenses to verify the age of their users; For this it is also necessary that online platforms prevent children from exposed to adult materials (that is why sites such as Blussky and Redit have started checking the age of some users).
To study the impact of the law, the post says that it also examined the top 90 porn sites based on the UK visitor data, finding 14 sites that still do not check the age. All of them have experienced dramatic growth in traffic, one of them has doubled the year-by-year traffic.
Meanwhile, several websites criticized this and complied with the law, urging a petition that canceled, or even offered instructions to be around it.
John Scott-Reltton, a researcher at the Citizen Lab University, Toronto, told The Post that it is “a textbook depiction of the law of unexpected results,” that the law “says that the law” suppresses traffic to comply with platforms while driving sites without age. “
