Government could ban ‘barely legal’ pornography after Bonnie Blue documentary
Amid fury over Bonnie Blue, taskforce moves to ban specific type of porn
- A taskforce plans to propose legislation to make it illegal for online platforms to host content that could encourage child sexual abuse, specifically targeting 'barely legal' pornography.
- The move follows significant criticism of a Channel 4 documentary, 1000 Men and Me: The Bonnie Blue Story, which featured porn star Bonnie Blue, whose real name is Tia Billinger.
- The Children’s Commissioner for England, Dame Rachel de Souza, accused the documentary of “glamorising and normalising” extreme pornography.
- Baroness Bertin aims to amend the Crime and Policing Bill to prohibit content where adults role-play as children, a type of material that Bonnie Blue engages in.
- While the Online Safety Act requires platforms to protect children from harmful content, current laws do not explicitly ban adults role-playing as children in pornography.