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Several countries and subnational jurisdictions had proposed mandatory age‑verification schemes for adult sites by 2025; some moved to binding rules (notably France and parts of the UK’s Online Safety...
Ofcom and campaign groups have lodged dozens of complaints and multiple formal investigations into GB News for alleged political bias, breaches of impartiality and hatespeech; notable actions include ...
A wave of new laws and regulations from 2020–2025 has focused less on changing the minimum age to appear in pornography than on imposing age-verification systems to block minors from accessing online ...
No major country in the provided reporting has publicly changed the statutory minimum age for consuming pornographic material — the baseline remains 18 in the jurisdictions cited — but a wave of new l...
France distinguishes erotic from pornographic content through a mix of sectoral rules: the cinematographic classification system that assigns age-based viewing certificates, and recent digital-law mea...
French law does not offer a single statutory definition that cleanly separates “pornography” from “erotic content”; instead regulators and courts treat material by context — explicit sexual acts, inte...
operate together as legal levers to restrict minors’ online access to pornography: age‑verification mandates try to gate content by proving visitors are adults, while obscenity definitions let governm...
Foreign regulators have paired formal preservation or retention orders with platform probes to capture evidence, force corporate cooperation and test emergent liability rules as they build cases aroun...
Between 2023 and 2025, courts and legislatures around the world have shifted the regulatory landscape for online pornography toward mandatory age‑verification, platform duties and site blocking, produ...
Three jurisdictions — France, Germany and multiple U.S. states — passed age‑verification requirements for pornographic or online services but encountered court challenges, enforcement delays or contes...
France in 2025 married a muscular national-security posture with expansive digital-regulation tools: a refreshed National Strategic Review (RNS 2025) reframes social media as an operational theatre fo...
Where jurisdictions set minimum ages for accessing pornography above 18, enforcement typically relies on age‑verification rules, platform liability and criminal sanctions focused on distributors rathe...
France’s 2024-25 push to regulate social media focuses chiefly on age limits, platform duties to remove illegal content, and stronger national enforcement of EU rules: the SREN law (Law to Secure and ...
Available sources in the provided set do not list which EU member states imposed partial restrictions on RT (formerly Russia Today) or describe the measures they used; those specific details are not m...
Cultural and religious norms shape whether countries adopt explicit minimum‑age rules for pornography by influencing lawmaking priorities, public morality thresholds, and enforcement tools such as cen...