Looking under the bonnet of new pornography laws

There’s always more going on, even if the politicians hope you’ll just take in their assurances and move on

We’re used to sifting through the spin and falsehoods when news stories break. Sometimes the issues are glaring. On other occasions it’s a feeling that things are more complicated than they seem. It sends you off to pick away the layers of a story with a bit of judicious research.

Take the quiet announcement of the government’s impending porn age restriction law. It sounds great right? Protect the kids. It’s been rolled out with that message despite routine admissions from the government itself that the age-verification system won’t actually be wide-reaching enough to stop kids from accessing porn literally everywhere else – namely social media.