https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/08/uk-revives-porn-age-checks/

In a fresh addition to incoming UK legislation that will set sweeping Internet content rules for platforms, the government has revived a long-standing ambition to put porn websites behind age gates — saying today that it will mandate the use of “age verification technologies” on adult sites to make it harder for children to access or stumble across pornography.

The Department for Digital, Media, Culture and Sport (DCMS) made the announcement to coincide with Safer Internet Day, as it dials up its populist rhetoric around child protection.